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Ciara O'Donnell – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
In Ireland state funded support services provide Continuing Professional Development for teachers and school leaders. These services are staffed with teachers seconded from their schools on an annual basis for a maximum of five years. This study investigated the learning and experience of teachers seconded to a national support service, the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education, Career Development
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Breathnach, Catherine; Stephenson, Frances – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2011
The authors explore their experience of a course for long-term unemployed people and reflect as to whether the traits identified by Tom Bourner on readiness for action learning actually relate to their experience. They conclude that based on the obvious development by the members of the group over the course, they observed, in some small way, the…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Experiential Learning, Active Learning, Student Experience
Boucouvalas, Marcie, Ed.; Avoseh, Mejai, Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2015
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…
Descriptors: International Education, Adult Education, Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Students
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McCabe, Thomas Joseph; Garavan, Thomas N. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2008
Purpose: The aim of this study is to highlight factors influencing the commitment of nurses, and particularly focuses on the role of training, development and career issues. It provides the basis for a HRD framework, outlining policy choices in developing high commitment amongst nursing staff. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative research…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Hospitals, Nurses, Job Satisfaction