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Adjunct Professor of Adult
Education
Academic Information
- Ph.D., Michigan State University,
1982, Adult and Higher Education (cognate areas: Community
Development, African Studies), Dissertation: Conflict
and Power as Perceived by Dominant and Subordinate Members
of a Community Group: Implications for Adult Educators
- M.A., Michigan State University,
1977, Nonformal Education Planning/Curriculum Development
- B.A., Macalester College, St. Paul,
Minn., 1970, French/Education
Biographical
Information
Linda Ziegahn is a faculty member of
the Antioch University McGregor Conflict
Resolution master’s program since 1998. She received
a doctorate in Adult Education from Michigan State University,
and her areas of academic interest include development and
evaluation of workplace and community training, explorations
of how students reflect on cross-cultural issues online,
the transformative dimensions of intercultural learning,
and the tutor-learner relationship in adult literacy education.
Linda has taught a variety of courses
relating to adult learning and training and intercultural
communication at the graduate and undergraduate levels at
Antioch McGregor, Montana State University, and Syracuse
University. Earlier career experiences include developing
training and peer coaching programs for international development
workers along with research on basic education at both the
primary and adult levels in various African countries and
Bangladesh.
Linda’s current research focuses
on the transformative potential of computer mediated communication
around culture and social justice issues.
Past research includes:
- A cross-cultural study of perceptions
of literacy among Native American and non-native low-literate
adults
- A critical assessment of the tutor-learner
relationship in adult literacy education,
- Development of basic literacy assessment
measures in Lesotho and Bangladesh for United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF). In an international development
career in the 1970’s and 1980’s, Linda directed
a nonformal education project for United States Agency
for International Development (USAID) in Lesotho and conducted
a study of out-of-school education projects for the State
Department in Rwanda.
Specialization
Transformative learning around cultural
issues; crossing cultures through online communication;
social networks around adult literacy, adult education;
and international development.
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