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Robert Tobias – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2021
This chapter provides an overview of the history of learning and educational policies and programmes affecting older adults in Aotearoa New Zealand over the past 50 years. It builds on my previous work and draws on a wide body of primary and secondary sources including policy documents and reports from the New Zealand Government's Office for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Older Adults, Postsecondary Education
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Gautam, Suresh – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2022
Literacies are the social processes that emerge and sustain, from everyday life, representing and transforming the mundane and repeated activities which resist the unequal power adjustment in society. In this regard, informal learning and literacies cultivate critical reflexivity of people to perform like activists. This paper aims to explore…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Activism, Community Change, Social Change
Rose, Justin Brand – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Workforce development education programs in community colleges impact the economy of a region, surpassing other public or private educational institutions (Bradley, 2013; Drury, 2003). Workforce development education programs provide short-term programs with the aim of training individuals in specific skills, promoting individuals' upward…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Community Colleges, Rural Schools, Rural Areas
Noelle M. Sugalski – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined the initial impact of the 2021 amendment to the Student Excellence Equals Degree (SEED) legislation on adult student program recipients at Delaware Technical Community College (Delaware Tech) in the state of Delaware. Additionally, the study explored the characteristics of adult student program recipients. The researcher used a…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Adult Students, Community Colleges, Individual Characteristics
Emily Anne Bakes Raymer – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This basic qualitative study investigated adult learners aged 35 and older and their experiences with situational, dispositional, and institutional barriers while enrolled in a Midwestern community college. Although numerous studies have examined adult learners in higher education, the purpose of this study was to investigate barriers adult…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Barriers, Nontraditional Students, Student Attitudes
Corinne Mikesell Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of older adult students who learn in a community college academic environment. The rationale for the study stemmed from a lack of knowledge regarding this group's experiences. The research question asked in this study was the following: "How do older adult students in a community…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Adult Students, Learning Experience, Self Efficacy
Beth A. Monchun – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The landscape of higher education has changed considerably over the past several decades as a more diverse population of students seeks higher education. Nontraditional students--those who are not entering college as first-time, full-time students immediately after college--are increasingly the norm on college campuses. Student-parents are a…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Parents, Student Experience, Experience
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Irene Cennamo; Monika Kastner; Lyn Tett – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
This article presents the findings of a comparative study of values-based adult learning and education (ALE) fields; specifically, in Austria, critical-emancipatory adult basic education; Scotland, learner-centered, community-based adult learning; and South Tyrol, Italy, the "Winterschule," a radical-critical popular education format. We…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Values, Neoliberalism
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Cheryl J. Craig; Paige Evans; Donna Stokes; Leah McAlister-Shields; Gayle A. Curtis – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
This article presents a multi-layered approach to mentoring within an urban secondary teacher education program in the mid-southern United States. The featured case focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), although multi-layered mentoring could occur in other subject areas or in general preservice teacher education. The…
Descriptors: Mentors, Urban Schools, Secondary School Teachers, STEM Education
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Nordvall, Henrik; Wadende, Pamela A.; Amutabi, Maurice N. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2023
This article reports an empirical case study of a community self-help group (chama) in Western Kenya, utilising the study circle model promoted by a Swedish non-governmental organisation. Methodologically, it is a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews and participant observation for data collection. The results show that the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonformal Education, Adult Education, Models
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Tovar, Lynn A. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2023
This paper probes whether a formal college education is linked to the quality of policing. Citizens desire a higher level of professionalism with ever-increasing demands placed on their police departments. Annual on-the-job training for police is common with proposed reform initiatives, however, the difference between police training and requiring…
Descriptors: Police Community Relationship, Police Education, Training, Bachelors Degrees
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Gouin, Jenna; Papagno, Alexandra; Peters, Cynthia; Teller, Luanne – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2023
Adult learners come to us at many different points along their journeys. As practitioners, we are responsible for understanding the range of purposes for which they seek our programs, so that we may partner with them in naming and achieving their goals. In working to get "many" students to progress to "many" steps, it can be…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Partnerships in Education, Equal Education, Educational Quality
Stacey L. Young – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This mixed-methods descriptive study (with a qualifying survey to determine participants' eligibility) was conducted to investigate whether student engagement has an impact on academic performance for undergraduate nontraditional students in a community college environment. The research population was undergraduate nontraditional students who were…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Nontraditional Students, Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement
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Ludlow, Amy; Armstrong, Ruth; Bartels, Lorana – Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 2019
This paper engages with challenges of localism, collaboration and reflexivity in thinking about the conceptualisation and development of partnership learning communities between higher education and criminal justice institutions. Grounded in experiences of partnership working in the UK and Australia, our arguments are twofold: First, drawing on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education
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Hart, Ariel R.; Dillard, Rebecca; Perkins, Molly M.; Vaughan, Camille P.; Kinlaw, Kathy; McKay, J. Lucas; Waldrop-Valverde, Drenna; Hagen, Kimberley; Wincek, Ron C.; Hackney, Madeleine E. – Educational Gerontology, 2017
The DREAMS Team research advocacy training program helps clinical faculty and health students introduce basic clinical research concepts to diverse older adults to galvanize their active involvement in the research process. Older adults are frequently underrepresented in clinical research, due to barriers to participation including distrust,…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Partnerships in Education, Advocacy, Community Education
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