COE Faculty Profile

E. Paulette Isaac-Savage, Ed.D.
Associate Professor of Adult Education
Division of educational leadership and policy studies

Email: EPIsaac@umsl.edu
Office: 258 Marillac Hall
Phone: 314-516-5941

Dr. E. Paulette Isaac-Savage joined the UM-St. Louis faculty in 1999. She is an associate professor of adult education and the Chair of the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. She received her Ed.D. from the University of Georgia, in Athens. She has served as an editor for Adult Learning, a journal of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education and is a reviewer for Education and Urban Society. Selected courses taught include:

• Adult Literacy Perspectives
• Multicultural Issues in Adult Education
• Educational Gerontology
• Media and Adult Learning

Selected Publications

• Isaac, E. P., Rowland, M. L., & Blackwell, L. E. (2007). Fighting health disparities: The
  educational role of the African American church. CrossCurrents, 57(2), 261-265.
• Isaac, E. P. (2006). Jonathan Jackson, Jr. Christian educators of the 20th century. Retrievable from http://www.talbot.edu/ce20/educators/view.cfm?n=jonathan_jackson
• Isaac, E. P. (2005). The future of adult education in the urban African American church. Education and Urban Society, 37(3), 276-291.
• Isaac, E. P., & Tempesta, M. S. (2004). Learning to rejuvenate metropolitan communities. In L. G. Martin & E. E. Rogers (Eds.), Adult education in an urban context: Problems, practices, and programming for inner-city communities (59-68). New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, No. 101. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Isaac E. P. (2004). Adult education in the African American church: A ministerial
  perspective. Perspectives: The New York Journal of Adult Education, 3(1), 4-16.
• Isaac, P. (Spring, 2002). The adult education phase of the African American church revisited. Christian Education Journal, 6(1), 7-23.
• Isaac, P., & Rowland, M. (2002). Institutional barriers to participation in adult education within religious institutions. Journal of Research on Christian Education, 11(2), 101-120.
• Isaac, E. P., Guy, T., & Valentine, T. (2001). Understanding African American adult learners' motivations to learn in church-based adult education. Adult Education Quarterly, 52(1), 23-38.

• Adult Education/Development
• Life-Span Development
• Minorities