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Program Faculty

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Jovita Ross-Gordon ASBS 310 x-8084

 jr24@txstate.ed

Ann K. Brooks ASBS 323 x-1936 abrooks@txstate.edu
Joellen Coryell ASBS 311 x-1856 jc59@txstate.edu
Clarena Larrotta ASBS 324 x-2438 cl24@txstate.edu
Robert Reardon ASBS 320 x-3755 rreardon@txstate.edu

 

 Jovita M. Ross-Gordon, Professor of Adult, Professional and Community Education and Coordinator of the MA Program in Adult Education.  She earned her BS and MA from Northwestern University and her EdD from the University of Georgia. Dr. Ross-Gordon’s research centers on teaching and learning of adults, with specific foci on 1) adult learners in higher education, 2) adults with disabilities, and 3) issues of diversity and equity in adult higher education and continuing professional education.  She has received the Marlowe Froke Outstanding Publication Award from the Association for Continuing Higher Education and the research award from the University Continuing Education Association.   She serves as  Co-Editor-in-Chief for the New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education Series and as a Co-Editor of Adult Education Quarterly.. Vita  Web Page


 Dr. BrooksAnn K. Brooks is a Professor of Adult, Professional, and Community Education, Director of the Ph.D. Program in Education, and Honorary Professor of International Studies. Her research focuses on systems of learning in education and work organizations; equity and inclusion; gender; higher education in Southeast Asia; and action inquiry in research and evaluation. She has worked or consulted in Cambodia, China, Japan, South Korea, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Colombia, and Mexico. She holds an Ed.D. from Columbia University Teachers College in Adult and Higher Education.Vita Web Page

  Joellen E. Coryell, Assistant Professor of Adult, Professional, and Community Education. Dr. Coryell earned a Ph.D. in Educational Human Resource Development from Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on understanding how adult educators and adult learners can use learning and development acquired through dialogue, intercultural experiences, and instructional technologies to improve their own educative practices and cross-cultural competencies. Within this focus, she pursues two distinct areas of research foci namely: 1) international and cross-cultural adult and higher education, including adult foreign and second language acquisition, internationalization of higher education, study abroad, and capacity building in international educational development; and 2) the investment in the professional development of adult educators and educational leaders. She currently has projects/consulting in Italy and Malawi.  Web page

  Clarena Clarena Larrotta, Associate Professor of Adult Education at Texas State University. Her research agenda investigates issues of language, culture, and equity and access as they relate to Latina/o and minority students, their families and communities. Using a Freirian/participatory approach her research interests focus on adult English as a second language (ESL), adult literacy and family literacy. Vita Web Page

Dr. Reardon

Robert F Reardon, Associate Professor - Educational Administration and Psychological Services. Ph.D. University of Georgia, Department of Adult Education. M.S. North Carolina State University, Department of Chemical Engineering. B.S. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Chemistry. Research interests include workplace learning in manufacturing, K – 20 science education, continuing professional development, and quantitative research methods (factor analysis, survey research, and multivariate regression). He has consulted extensively with the oil and chemical industry in the US.  Vita   Web Page