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The adult volunteer instructors' rite of initiation: training as a socialization process

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

Adult volunteer instructor training is an important transaction in the dissemination of community health courses to citizens in schools, worksites, religious organizations, and recreational centers. Yet prior to this study little was known about this process by which an individual was transformed from a willing volunteer into a volunteer instructor.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Doctor of Education
Level thesis:degree_level
doctoral
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Adult and Continuing Education
Department dc:contributor.department
Adult and Continuing Education
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
1990

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Lenaghan, Donna Dismuke
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Stubblefield, Harold W.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Bezold, Clement
  • Boucouvalas, Marcie
  • Cline, Marvin G.
  • Wiswell, Albert K.

Rights

dc:rights
Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
etd-07282008-134952
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/38923

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Lenaghan, Donna Dismuke. The adult volunteer instructors' rite of initiation: training as a socialization process. doctoral thesis, Virginia Tech, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38923