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Edgley, Allison – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study on training and development experiences of faculty in higher education institutions (HEIs), particularly with learning management systems (LMSs), was relevant given the global shift to remote and virtual learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The LMSs became the foundation through which information was disseminated and it was important…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Integrated Learning Systems, Technology Uses in Education
Treff, Marjorie E.; Earnest, Stephen E. – Adult Learning, 2016
This article recommends strategies and process tools that teach learners to communicate with peers, observe specific behaviors in group processes, and share and analyze those observations to create increased awareness of their and others' assumptions and behaviors. The authors apply these strategies and tools in ways that make explicit to learners…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Educational Theories, Adult Development
Batista, Rita; Borba, Rute; Henriques, Ana – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2022
This study aims to analyse the reasoning that children and adults with the same school level use to assess and justify the fairness of games, considering aspects of probability such as randomness, sample space, and comparison of probabilities. Data collection included a Piagetian clinical interview based on games of chance. The results showed that…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistics Education, Intervention, Thinking Skills
Mansfield, John; Saldana, Carmen; Hurst, Peter; Nordlinger, Rachel; Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar; Perfors, Andrew – Cognitive Science, 2022
Inflectional affixes expressing the same grammatical category (e.g., subject agreement) tend to appear in the same morphological position in the word. We hypothesize that this cross-linguistic tendency toward "category clustering" is at least partly the result of a learning bias, which facilitates the transmission of morphology from one…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Grammar, Transfer of Training
Enhancing Leadership Training through an Experiential Approach: An Online Model for the 21st Century
Samuel, Anita; Durning, Steven J. – Adult Learning, 2022
Billions of dollars are spent annually on leadership training and development courses. Unfortunately, this training, both at organizational and university levels, does not appear to consistently result in significant adult learning or better organizational performance. These programs tend to focus on the theories of leadership within closed…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Experiential Learning, Practicums, Adult Learning
Player, John – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2022
The incidence of drug-related deaths in Scotland has reached crisis proportions. Comparable only to the rust belt States in the US these figures point to the impact of the rapid scale of deindustrialisation and a global neoliberal economy, based on austerity, deepening class divisions and a return to a more naked form of capitalism. The question…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Mortality Rate, Death, Drug Abuse
Holford, John – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
Peter Jarvis is a towering figure in the study of adult and lifelong education and a leading and original theorist of learning. This paper sets out his intellectual and professional biography, maps the main contours of his work and introduces fourteen papers by leading scholars devoted to his work. Five broad phases in Jarvis' life are identified:…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Education, Learning Theories, Educational Philosophy
Aremu-Ogundeji, Abimbola – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to explore the cognitive adaptation processes of African immigrant women who are professionals. Theories of transformational learning and social cognitive theory were employed to examine cognitive restructuring motivated by learning among women immigrants. The research investigated underlying agentic perspectives and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Immigrants, Females, Sampling
Jubas, Kaela – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2020
In this article, I present my analysis of an advertisement for a local professional football team. Central premises here include the conceptualization of adult learning as occurring holistically in the course of everyday encounters, and Sara Ahmed's thoughts on the social function of affect, especially happiness or "good feeling." I…
Descriptors: Athletics, Team Sports, Advertising, Adult Learning
Philipsen, Brent – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2019
Since information and communication technologies were introduced into education, the number of courses delivered in an online or blended learning (OBL) format has increased significantly. However, not all teachers are experienced in teaching in this new digital environment. While various teacher professional development (TPD) models exist, few…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Blended Learning, Faculty Development, Educational Change
Juarez, Brandon – Journal of Instructional Research, 2019
The high percentage of new teachers who leave the profession within the first five years of teaching motivated the teacher educator to consider an alternative path to andragogically approaching course content. Thus, the teacher educator grappled with the process of transitioning theories of the content to application-based andragogy. The…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Andragogy
Richards, K. Andrew R.; Kern, Ben D.; Ayers, Suzan F.; Mays Woods, Amelia; Graber, Kim C. – Quest, 2021
In line with trends in general education, physical education teacher education programs have faced lowering enrollments over the last few decades. These circumstances have led to the closure of some PETE programs while faculty members at others have been called to increase recruitment and retention efforts to reverse the negative enrollment…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Declining Enrollment, Student Recruitment
Stone, Sharon L. M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2017
Using a conceptual framework constructed from elements of self-evolution, epistemological reflection, and constructivist adult learning theories, I examined how 8 student veterans progressed toward the developmental stage of self-authorship and what role, if any, their military training or experience played in that development. The findings from…
Descriptors: Military Service, Student Development, Adult Learning, Learning Theories
Connolly, Brid – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2018
This article aims to explore the recent promotion of reflective practice in teacher education and to draw on the thinking that has developed in adult education, particularly in feminist community education. It endeavours to unpack, briefly, the foundational theories that are promoted in teacher education and identify the failings inherent in these…
Descriptors: Feminism, Reflective Teaching, Teacher Education, Adult Education
Washington, Eric W. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This research project investigated the experiences of adult student veterans who have completed postsecondary education degrees utilizing veteran education benefits. The purpose of this grounded theory research was to discover how veterans are able to complete baccalaureate degrees within the 36 months allowed under the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Veterans Education, Postsecondary Education, Bachelors Degrees