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Conscientiousness, Resilience, and Personality: What Do Mature Female Students Tell Us about Being an Adult Learner on a Foundation Programme at a Business School?
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David William Stoten – Adult Learning, 2025
This paper reports on the coping strategies of mature female students whilst studying a Foundation Programme at a Business School. In recent years, research has focussed less on the problems that confront adult learners and more on how they exercise personal agency and cope with the multifarious challenges of combining study with part-time…
Descriptors: Females, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Business Schools
The Ways School Headteachers/Principals in England at Different Stages of Adult Ego Development Work with Organisational Complexity
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Neil Gilbride; Chris James; Sam Carr – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2025
In this article, we analyse the ways school headteachers/principals (HT/Ps) at different stages of adult ego development (AED) make sense of and respond to the organisational complexity of their schools. The AED stage of 20 HT/Ps in England was assessed using the Washington University Sentence Completion Test. HT/Ps in the self-aware,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Individual Development, Self Concept