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Ann E. Williams; Natalie E. Williams – Communication Teacher, 2024
This paper provides a theory-based introduction to instructional design that can be used in pedagogy seminars, training sessions, professional development events, colloquiums, and/or programmatic guidebooks. It includes a series of activities designed to assist instructors in the classes they teach. The exercises combine theory with practice to…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Theories, Seminars, Teacher Workshops
Jack Whitehead – Advances in Research on Teaching, 2024
This chapter explores the implications of acknowledging one's own excessive entitlement and living contradictions in contributing to Living-Educational-Theory Research. The analysis emphasises the importance of accepting one's educational responsibility for one's own continuing professional development in inquiries of the kind that address this…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Teacher Attitudes, Expectation, Reflective Teaching
Gary McCulloch – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
The educational historian Brian Simon is well known for his portrayal of the social and political conflicts surrounding adult working-class education in 19th and early 20th-century England. However, the third and fourth volumes of his classic history of education in Britain, covering the period from 1920 to 1940 and 1940 to 1990 respectively,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Marxian Analysis, Educational History, Working Class
Sarah M. Ray; Wendy Wagner; Lisa Bagby – Adult Learning, 2024
Democratic adult education (AE) promotes social change through active and pragmatic learning. This learning considers the impact of individual, community, organization, and broader cultural influences. Democratic civic engagement (DCE) in higher education institutions (HEIs) emphasizes inclusive participation and reciprocity. These values are…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Citizen Participation, Democracy, Higher Education
Mimi Wellisch – Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 2024
Giftedness and Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD) have been firmly linked since the Columbus Group's 1991 statement on giftedness and asynchrony. The theory's overexcitabilities (OEs) factor has been the main association with giftedness. Although OEs include certain characteristics associated with giftedness, they also include…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Student Characteristics, Psychological Characteristics, Psychological Patterns
Michael Kroth; Davin Carr-Chellman; Carol Rogers-Shaw – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
This chapter argues for the centrality of spirituality in lifelong and adult learning theory and practice. As embedded in human experience, the spirituality of learning, including exploring awe and wonder, is vital. We introduce the processes and outcomes of lifelong spiritual formation, profound learning, and human flourishing as underpinnings…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Spiritual Development, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning
Benjamin Garner; Nathan Shank – Journal of Marketing Education, 2024
Flipped classes have been gaining in popularity in recent years, and yet only a handful of marketing education papers have examined flipped class methods. In a time when creative methods for engaging students online and in-person are critical, this study analyzes open-ended, qualitative student comments from a flipped class course to explore the…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Student Attitudes, Adult Learning, Learning Theories
Edith Gnanadass; Lisa R. Merriweather – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
In this chapter, we provide a snapshot of critical theories with salience for adult education to illuminate their enduring efficacy within the discipline, including critical feminism, queer theory, and race-based critical theories. Critical theories seek to make individual change while dismantling the structures that suppress freedom and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Critical Theory, Educational Change
Timothy M. Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The field of adult learning theory, or how adults learn, has exploded in recent years yielding increased knowledge and awareness of how adults learn. While preachers do have a wide variety of ages in their congregations, most of the people they preach to are adults. This dissertation looks at preaching and adult learning theory and what the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Barriers, Theories, Religion
Dwight Barnes – Critical Questions in Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between mentoring and Early Career Teacher retention, within an urban school district in Maryland. The research examined mentoring and teacher retention in an urban school district. There were 11 participants in the study. Seven of the participants remained in the district after their…
Descriptors: Mentors, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover
Lydia Lauder; Siobhan Neary – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
Political impetuses for raising the professional status of the careers sector in England have spanned more than a decade, driving an assiduous pursuit for professionalisation linked to the training and upskilling of its workforce. This paper builds on previous work by the authors and explores the necessity, and integration of theory for practice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Continuing Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Counselor Training
Barry J. Hake – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
This paper explores transnational circulation during the early 1970s of lifelong education and recurrent education as 'policy repertoires' addressing redistribution of participation in organised (adult) learning throughout life. Focused on a re-reading of UNESCO's 1972 report on lifelong education, the paper offers a critical analysis of the Faure…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Transformative Learning, Neoliberalism, Educational Principles
Ralf St. Clair – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Andragogy was the first adult learning model to identify adult learners' characteristics and provide a pragmatic framework for responding to them. It is still considered a foundational and significant contribution to understanding adult learners despite substantial critique over the last 50 years. Current research supports the notion that…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Andragogy, Learning Strategies
Nicole Dillard; Stephanie Sisco; Joshua C. Collins – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
This article explores the evolution and expansion of experiential learning theory (ELT) within the context of contemporary adult education, emphasizing the integration of technology, interdisciplinarity, and cultural responsiveness. Although Kolb's foundational model has been instrumental in linking theoretical knowledge with practical…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Adult Education, Technology Uses in Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Cathal de Paor – Studies in Continuing Education, 2024
An effective system of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) requires assessment processes that are appropriate for the nature of the experiential learning being assessed. Otherwise, potential candidates may be discouraged from engaging in RPL applications and therefore not benefit from the lifelong learning opportunities available. It has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prior Learning, Military Personnel, Experiential Learning