KAALE
Outstanding Graduate Research Award (OGRA)
The Korean American Academy of Lifelong Education (KAALE) encourages, supports, and recognizes Korean and Korean American students' research contributions to adult education and lifelong learning.
2025 Call for Submissions
Now Open!
General Eligibility
An applicant should meet the following criteria:
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Applicants for the award must have been enrolled in adult education, lifelong learning, or closely related graduate programs (e.g. higher education, workforce education).
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Current member of KAALE: If you are not currently a member of KAALE, you can join by visiting the KAALE homepage.
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Papers must be authored solely by a graduate student; if co-authored, a graduate student must be the first author.
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Full papers accepted for academic conferences are eligible for the KAALE OGRA application. Papers are to be broadly within the field of adult education. Topics under the field of adult education include, but are not limited to:
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Adult learning theory and practices
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Learning within workplaces and organizations
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Globalization, transnational migration and education
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Sustainability, community development and learning
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(Digital) literacy and basic skills learning
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Indigenous perspectives and the politics of knowledge
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Agreement to register and attend the KAALE meeting held at the AAACE Annual Meeting.
Korean American Academy of Lifelong Education (KAALE)
2024 Outstanding Graduate Research Award
Presented to
MEE JOO KIM
(Southern Regional Education Board)
Research Title:
Invisible and Precarious Lived Experiences of
Asian International Doctoral Student Mothers During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Past Award Winners
2023 Chang Sung Jang, University of Oklahoma
Title: Latent Class Analysis of Adult Education Participation in the United States ⎋
co-Authors: Dr. Doo Hun Lim & Sumi Lee
2020 Jinhee Choi, Pennsylvania State University
Title: North Korean women entrepreneurs learning from failure ⎋
Advisor & co-Author: Dr. Esther Prins
2019 Mirim Kim, Texas A&M University
Title: Effects of three dimensions of shared leadership on team members' perceptions on trust and team performance ⎋
co-Author: Dr. Soo Jeoung Han
2018 Bora Jin, Texas A&M University
Title: Older adults' informal learning using mobile devices: A review of literature ⎋
Advisor & co-Author: Dr. Lisa Baumgartner