Penn State Harrisburg

Faculty Member, Behavioral Sciences and Education

Assistant Professor of Adult Education

Behavioral Sciences and Education

Thesis Title: ADULT EDUCATION, POPULAR CULTURE, AND WOMEN’S IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT: SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING WITH THE AVENGERS

About

Robin Redmon Wright is Assistant Professor of Adult Education at Penn State Harrisburg. Her research interests reflect a critical perspective on adult identity development, feminist identity development, popular culture and adult learning and development, and adult learning, educational access and social class. She sees pedagogy as a critical tool for social activism that can be integrated into adult lives to produce lifelong learners actively involved in improving the lives of human beings in their individual communities and across the globe. Recent publications include:

Popular culture, public pedagogy, and perspective transformation: The Avengers and adult learning in living rooms. International Journal of Lifelong Learning, 28(4), (2009 with J.A. Sandlin) 533-551.

Popular culture and entertainment media; Cult TV, hip hop, shape-shifters, and vampire slayers: A review of the literature at the intersection of adult education and popular culture, (2009, with J. A. Sandlin) Adult Education Quarterly,
59(2), 118-141.

The intersection of critical theory and interdisciplinary learning: The emergence of a pedagogical soul. In Burke, P. (Eds.), Women and Pedagogy: Education Through Autobiographical  Narrative, 119-125, (2009) Troy, New York: Educator's International Press, Inc.

Research as quest: An autoethnographic exploration of embodied class, intellectual obsession, and the academy. (2008), Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy 5(2), Winter, 69-94.

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