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Papaspyrou, Spyros; Koutsouris, Alex – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2018
Purpose: The current paper aims at the classification of Greek agronomists/extensionists in adult education philosophical frameworks; the exploration of frameworks' changes in the last 40 years; and the assessment of their relevance vis-à-vis the current developments. Design/Methodology/Approach: The research addressed a purposive sample of 30…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy, Extension Education, Adult Education
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Boylan, Mark; Adams, Gill; Coldwell, Mike; Willis, Ben; Demack, Sean – Review of Education, 2018
Increasingly, policymakers seek to improve the quality of teaching through curriculum innovations and continuing professional development (CPD) programmes. However, engagement by schools and teachers varies owing to mediating influences of neoliberal policies. In this article, we contribute to understanding how these tendencies affect…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, Participation, Institutional Characteristics
Yvette Marion Powe – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation examines my experience as a Student Services Advisor and Coordinator at a proprietary postsecondary educational institution. I chose to examine the field of proprietary postsecondary education. The proprietary postsecondary education industry maintains a contradiction that is empowered by the respectability for delivering…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Vocational Education, For Profit Colleges, Vocational Directors
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Jin, Jing; Ke, Sihui – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
This study is aimed to re-examine the Interface Hypothesis via investigating the adult L2 acquisition of the word order variation of numeral classifier indefinites at the syntax-semantics and syntax-discourse interfaces in L2 Chinese. A computerized acceptability judgment task was administered to 41 advanced and intermediate adult Korean learners…
Descriptors: Word Order, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Syntax
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Kloubert, Tetyana – Journal of Transformative Education, 2020
This article explores both the prerequisites and barriers of perspective transformation in the context of two Eastern European societies as examples of post-totalitarian states. Although personal cognitive development is considered as an outcome of perspective transformation, I will demonstrate that certain manifestations of cognitive development…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Systems, Barriers, Cognitive Development
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Fonseca, Maria da Conceição Ferreira Reis – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
The diversity of vulnerability conditions, that have prevented children and adolescents from exercising their right to school education, also produces a diversity of cultural references of the public that comes to Basic Education programs for Youth and Adults in developing countries. This diversity often forges appropriation processes of numeracy…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Adult Basic Education, Syntax, Semantics
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Burke, Emily Kearns – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2017
This chapter examines the revitalization of the cultural commons in one Massachusetts community. The adult learning theory of situated cognition, specifically communities of practice and cognitive apprenticeship, provides a lens through which to better understand how knowledge sharing can effectively promote localization in an effort to mitigate…
Descriptors: Cultural Centers, Community Centers, Adult Learning, Learning Theories
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Meier, David – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Ultimately with the raise of computer technology, blended learning has found its way into teaching. The technology continues to evolve, challenging teachers and lecturers alike. Most studies on blended learning focus on the practical or applied side and use essentially pedagogical concepts. This study demonstrates that the leadership sciences can…
Descriptors: Leadership, Theories, Blended Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Raymer, Annalisa L. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
With a goal of creating conditions wherein college students of adult learning paired with international adult learners form mutual partnerships for educational mentoring, where to begin? How to take into account the contextual factors and priorities of multiple stakeholders in creating academic courses and learning-focused partnerships while…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Change, Curriculum Design, Educational Theories
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Shan, Hongxia – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2015
Since the 1970s, immigrant studies have taken a feminist turn. This paper takes stock of how Canadian adult educators have contributed to this field and vice versa. Through an ethnographic content analysis of [Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education] CASAE proceedings since 2000 and other related scholarly publications, the paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Immigrants
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Nicolaides, Aliki, Ed.; Eschenbacher, Saskia, Ed.; Buergelt, Petra T., Ed.; Gilpin-Jackson, Yabome, Ed.; Welch, Marguerite, Ed.; Misawa, Mitsunori, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
This handbook offers an expanded discourse on transformative learning by making the turn into new passageways to explore the phenomenon of transformation. It curates diverse discourses, knowledges and practices of transformation, in ways that both includes and departs from the adult learning mainstay of transformative learning and adult education.…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Critical Theory, Freedom, Creativity
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Agyepong, Edith Biamah; Okyere, Enoch Danso – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2018
The term continuing education is extensively used throughout nursing education literature. This paper sought to re-examine the concept 'continuing education' for its meaning, relevance and appropriateness of application. The authors examined the definitions of continuing education from dictionaries, thesauruses, and current nursing education…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Nursing Education, Lifelong Learning, Educational Theories
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Mycroft, Lou – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2018
Drawing on stories from ten years of social purpose teacher education in the UK, this paper assumes that the future of further education is still unwritten. It illustrates complex and workable ideas via a theorised sketch of the fictional Bee Learning Programme, an imagined education setting of the future. The narrative that follows is designed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Adult Education, Educational Development
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Wilson, Stefanie D. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2018
Co-creating with a diverse population of learners to enhance their educational experience requires apt skills, namely, multiple intelligence practices. Through the lens of adult learning theories to include multiple intelligences developed by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, this empirical research study of a classroom scenario examines the…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Transformative Learning, Adult Learning, Learning Theories
Parent-Nichols, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In-service trainings for teachers provide information to influence teacher practice within the complex, dynamic environment of the classroom. Transfer of learning, the ability to use previously learned information in a novel setting or time, is necessary for generalization to actual practice (Sork and Caffarella, 1998). Teachers report that…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Transfer of Training, Generalization
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