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Heinrich, Jill; Bostwick, Kerry – Educational Review, 2023
By repositioning the salonniere as a progressive, feminist educator who employed a constructivist framework to regulate the discourse of the male philosophes who frequented her salon space, this article offers a new vantage point from which to examine her influence on the Enlightenment cause. Feminist historians have insightfully analysed the…
Descriptors: Feminism, Gender Differences, Constructivism (Learning), Philosophy
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Sumithran, Suma; Chowdhury, Raqib; Barnes, Melissa – Qualitative Research Journal, 2023
Purpose: Adult student identities within EAL (English as an Additional Language) classrooms have often been positioned as static, homogenised and exoticised within scholarly literature. Within such positioning, teachers have embraced pedagogical practices which classify students by country of origin and represent student identities within binaries…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Adult Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Wang, Fei; Ai, Bin – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2023
Using positioning theory as a framework, this study examined two adult learners' participatory opportunities in small group interactions when they were learning English as a second language in an American university. The study finds that control over access to participatory opportunities mainly lies in how learners manage to position themselves…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Adult Students, College Students
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Yarbrough, Jillian Ruth – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2018
With innovations in technology, adult educators can begin to create learning opportunities in very expansive terms. But, innovative, technologically advanced learning environments still benefit from a solid foundation in adult learning theory, instrumental theories like John B. Watson's Behaviorism, Lev Vygotsky's Social Development Theory, Jack…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Andragogy, Adult Education
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Jeremic, Rusa – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2021
For 40 years, the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education has been instrumental in promoting debate on critical pedagogical approaches and sharing best practices in engaging in transformative education models. A few months into 2020, it became clear that not only were we in a new age--the digital age--identified by some as the Fourth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational Practices, Best Practices
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Tarlau, Rebecca – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016
In 2014, Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-first Century" rocked the economic and political world, with its argument that inequality is destined to increase; in the field of education, however, this book has been almost entirely ignored. I argue that Piketty's treatise is relevant to educational theories for three reasons: his…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Human Capital, Social Theories, Social Mobility
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Farmer, Stuart – School Science Review, 2020
Science appears to be coming under increasing pressure in parts of society and the media, with an increase of 'fake news' and less regard for 'experts'. If this is to be combatted it is important that students develop a good understanding of both the big conceptual ideas of science and the nature of science itself. However, the nature of science…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Knowledge Level, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Scientific Principles
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Fitzsimons, Camilla – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2020
The article is principally written for adult educators. It models an auto-ethnographic approach situating this within a critical pedagogic orientation. As an adult educator working in the Republic of Ireland, I draw from two instances in my own life that helped me to re-think my racialised identity. By reflecting on discomforts in terms of my own…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Whites, Power Structure, Racial Bias
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David William Stoten – On the Horizon, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to address the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 4 "quality education" through the adoption of heutagogic ideas in improving work-based learning for individuals. Design/methodology/approach: This paper locates a discussion of heutagogy within the wider context of vocational and higher education, as…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Educational Quality, Student Centered Learning, Learner Controlled Instruction
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Ramsden, Robyn; Colbran, Richard; Christopher, Ellice; Edwards, Michael – Health Education, 2022
Purpose: Education, training and continuing professional development are amongst the evidence-based initiatives for attracting and retaining rural and remote health professionals. With rapidly increasing access to and use of digital technology worldwide, there are new opportunities to leverage training and support for those who are working in…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Rural Areas, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Robinson, Petra A.; Scott, Jennifer L. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
In the United States, issues facing immigrants are fundamentally intertwined with racial justice. Through a critical, human-rights perspective, we examine how immigrants engage with adult learning, paying particular attention to the history of immigration and policy as it frames lives often described as lived "in the shadows." Challenges…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Social Integration, Adult Education, Higher Education
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Xenofontos, Constantinos; Fraser, Sally; Priestley, Andrea; Priestley, Mark – Oxford Review of Education, 2021
The issue of "social justice" has been regularly addressed in many published papers in mathematics education research, particularly after 2000, when the discipline took a more explicit socio-political turn. However, there does not appear to be a consensus as to what the term designates and includes. This paper is a systematic review of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Social Justice, Mathematics Education, Educational Research
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Rausch, Thomas A.; Kaiser, Leann M. R. – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
This paper examines current views and definitions of learning transfer as well as their dominant characteristics. An alterior way to view learning transfer as preparation for future learning (PFL) is presented along with its defining features. This paper is divided into five sections: (a) what comprises learning transfer, (b) the conventional…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Adult Educators
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Karen S. Acton – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2023
The education doctorate program fills an essential niche that allows practitioners to earn a doctorate and make a difference in educational practice and policy. However, critics claim EdD programs are failing to effectively prepare students. There has been a push for the reinvention of the EdD which includes improving EdD student confidence in…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Teacher Education, Research Methodology, Student Research
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James, David – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
In the context of devolution, this paper argues that there is a distinctively Welsh flavour to FE and Skills policy, but that its nature and formation needs to be understood both intrinsically and relationally, especially in terms of its relationship to parallel policy developments in England. Consideration is given to structural aspects and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational Policy, Politics of Education
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