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Direct linkAmy M. Anderson; Justina Or – Adult Learning, 2024
Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is a simulated global exchange experience that utilizes technology to bridge the gap between classrooms worldwide. Past research suggests that COIL may be useful in facilitating intercultural communication effectiveness and cultural humility for adult learners. As such, this quantitative study…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Electronic Learning, Adult Learning, Technology Uses in Education
Download full textHanemann, Ulrike, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
This compilation offers global examples of innovative and promising literacy and numeracy programmes that link the teaching and learning of literacy to sustainable development challenges such as health, social equality, economic empowerment and environmental sustainability. This publication is a timely contribution to the 2030 Agenda for…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Literacy, Numeracy, Lifelong Learning
Valdés-Cotera, Raúl, Ed.; Longworth, Norman, Ed.; Lunardon, Katharina, Ed.; Wang, Mo, Ed.; Jo, Sunok, Ed.; Crowe, Sinéad, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
UNESCO established the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) to encourage the development of learning cities. By providing technical support, capacity development, and a platform where members can share ideas on policies and best practice, this international exchange network helps urban communities create thriving learning cities. The…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Lifelong Learning, Urban Programs, Communities of Practice
Tinti, Douglas Da Silva; Lopes, Celi Espasandin – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2021
This article aims to analyze Brazilian research on statistics education involving teachers to highlight methodological trends and training contexts mobilized by such research. To this end, a survey was carried out in the Dissertation and Thesis Bank of CAPES, considering the descriptor "Statistical Education" and the 2013-2018 timeframe.…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Trend Analysis, Educational Trends
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2021
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has launched a new publication, "Integrated Approaches to Literacy and Skills Development: Examples of Best Practice in Adult Learning Programmes." This new compilation showcases 21 adult education programmes that demonstrate promising approaches to integrating literacy, life skills and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning
Bizerril, Marcelo Ximenes A.; Soares, Carla Cruz; Santos, Jean Pierre – Environmental Education Research, 2011
This article describes the environmental education (EE) program developed in the neighboring community of Serra da Canastra National Park based on a research project focused on the maned wolf conservation. The article assesses three tools used to foster the community's participation in discussing local issues: (1) communal production of a book…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Cultural Activities, Conservation (Environment), Community Involvement
Ayvazian, Andrea S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines how adult education can facilitate learning towards the full realization of human potential. It synthesizes two theories of human development, and applies this to the practice of community-based adult education carried out by trained facilitators who do not have formal degrees in the field of mental health. The first part of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Programs, Literature Reviews, Foreign Countries
Klaiber, Jeffrey – Journal of Moral Education, 2009
The Catholic Church, with deep roots in the history of Latin America, exercises considerable influence on all levels of society. Especially after the Second Vatican Council and the bishops' conference at Medellin (1968) the Church took up the banner of human rights and the cause of the poor. During the dictatorships and in the midst of the…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Latin American History, Foreign Countries, Catholics
The Evolution and Impact of Literacy Campaigns and Programmes, 2000-2014. UIL Research Series: No. 1
Hanemann, Ulrike – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
The paper analyses the status and characteristics of adult literacy campaigns and programmes since 2000. Global trends are analysed in terms of the ten key aspects of the suggested framework for successful literacy campaigns and programmes. Four case studies on major literacy campaigns in Brazil, India, South Africa and Indonesia are used to…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Publicity, Adult Literacy, Global Approach
Hur, Mann Hyung – Journal of Community Psychology, 2006
A variety of studies on empowerment has been conducted, but there has been no overarching framework available for practitioners and researchers hoping to grasp the process and components of empowerment in a comprehensive manner. This study was designed to provide the overarching framework across theories and disciplines for both academics and…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Models, Theories, Foreign Countries
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory
Celani, Maria Antonieta Alba; Collins, Heloisa – AILA Review, 2005
This paper focuses on online educational sessions of a continuing teacher education programme. The aim of this programme is to give a contribution to the continuing education of teachers of English as critical professionals, aware of discursive classroom practices, able to analyze them in the light of objectives to be reached and knowledge to be…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Continuing Education, Teacher Education Programs, English Teacher Education
