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Nicolaides, Aliki – Myers Education Press, 2022
"Generative Knowing" explores the mystery of learning from the unknown in ways that reveal that learning is a dynamic phenomenon, encompassing both personal and societal contexts. Dewey defines learning in terms of experience, reflection, continuity, and interactivity. When learning happens, it eventually solidifies into reliable truths…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Mastery Learning, Learning Processes
Nicolaides, Aliki – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2015
This study explored the extent to which ambiguity can serve as a catalyst for adult learning. The purpose of this study is to understand learning that is generated when encountering ambiguity agitated by the complexity of liquid modernity. "Ambiguity," in this study, describes an encounter with an appearance of reality that is at first…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Ambiguity (Context), Difficulty Level, Adults
Yorks, Lyle; Nicolaides, Aliki – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background/Context: The implications of complexity theory have become a recurring topic in the literatures of a wide range of scholarly and professional fields including adult education. This paper builds on literature calling attention to the educational need for pedagogically addressing the implications of the intensifying complexity in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Student Attitudes, Adult Development
Yorks, Lyle; Nicolaides, Aliki – Human Resource Development Review, 2012
This article addresses an important, yet often underattended to, aspect of the strategy development process: fostering the use of strategic learning practices in the simultaneous practice of developing strategy and cultivating strategic mindset awareness. The need for addressing this aspect of the strategy development process is increasingly…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Models, Strategic Planning, World Views