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North Korean Women Entrepreneurs Learning from Failure
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Choi, Jinhee; Prins, Esther – International Review of Education, 2023
Migrants' workplace experiences in their host society, including failure, shape their social adjustment, yet "how" migrants learn from failures is under-investigated. The study presented here examined how North Korean migrants struggling for a foothold in South Korea sought to learn from failures in their workplaces and everyday life.…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Dining Facilities, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Conclusion
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Prins, Esther – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2017
This chapter identifies directions for future ABE research and suggests how researchers and practitioners can enrich the field's knowledge base.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Basic Education, Educational Research, Research Needs
Taking Initiative and Constructing Identity: International Graduate Student Spouses' Adjustment and Social Integration in a Rural University Town
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Campbell, Kimeka; Prins, Esther – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
Nearly one quarter of international graduate students in the USA and Canada are accompanied by their spouse, typically highly educated, professional women. Because they are not students, accompanying spouses' distinctive needs and experiences are often invisible. This article focuses on an overlooked population of adult learners: accompanying…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Students, Spouses, Social Integration
Individual and Structural Attributions for Poverty and Persistence in Family Literacy Programs: The Resurgence of the Culture of Poverty
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Prins, Esther; Schafft, Kai A. – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: Educational researchers have long sought to understand the factors that enable or constrain persistence in non-formal family literacy and adult education programs. Scholars typically posit three sets of factors influencing persistence: situational (learners' life circumstances), institutional (programmatic factors), and…
Descriptors: Poverty, Persistence, Economically Disadvantaged, Adult Education