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Kim, Peter – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
Foreign language aptitude is defined as one's potential to learn a second language. A language learner with higher aptitude is predicted to learn more, faster, and reach a higher level of proficiency. If this is the case, one way to validate the construct of aptitude and its measure is to conduct a validation study in which measures of aptitude is…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Earl, Cassie – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2019
The global Occupy! actions gave some pause for thought. At first, some thought that this was a global movement that could change the way politics was conducted and maybe see the end of capitalism as we knew it. The hopes for Occupy! were high, but the highest hopes for the movement were short lived. This paper examines Occupy!'s legacy; what…
Descriptors: Activism, Dissent, Collectivism, Popular Education
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Brooks, Ann K. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2019
This article shares the findings of a qualitative study of a community-based organization in Mexico and the emancipatory pedagogy practiced there in a time characterized by a changing global economic order, conflict and war, corruption and geographic displacement. To make sense of the transnational philosophical fusion and the pedagogical…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Conflict
Likourezos, Vicki; Kalyuga, Slava – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
The variability effect occurs when learners' exposure to highly variable tasks results in better learning. It was hypothesised that learners who studied high variability worked examples would obtain higher post-test scores compared to learners who studied low variability examples, and learners who self-generated problem solutions for the same high…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cognitive Ability, Pretests Posttests, Learning Theories
Fan, Guorui; Zou, Jiaxin – ECNU Review of Education, 2020
Purpose: This study reviews China's labor education theories and policies to reveal the main objectives, contents, and methods of the new era, as well as analyzes future development in labor education. Design/Approach/Methods: In addition to reviewing the relevant labor education theories, this study examines China's labor education policies using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Education, Educational Theories, Educational Policy
Frackowiak, Anna – International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences, 2017
Metaphors are not only an inherent element of culture, but also powerful tools of thinking. In the paper analysis of metaphors used in theoretical stances, research outcomes reports, depicting world of adult education practice in Poland are discussed. First, a short review of theories of metaphor is presented. Then, the role metaphors can play in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Figurative Language, Educational Research
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Jaafar, Reem; Schwartz, Joni – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2018
This exploratory, comparative case study of an urban community college calculus classroom examines adult learning from Yang's Holistic Learning Theory and provides concrete pedagogical suggestions for how adult learning practitioners can engage adult learners in transformative learning. Data collection was from a selective sampling of student…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Calculus
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Moyer, Joanne M.; Sinclair, A. John – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2020
Social-ecological systems face increasing disruptions and challenges, many deriving from human actions, and learning is frequently touted as "the way out" for addressing them. Using a systematic review of 26 studies that span about 20 years and cover four continents, this article interrogates the link between learning, action, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Sustainability, Learning Processes, Social Change
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Evans, D. Reid – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Fundamental to complex dynamic systems theory is the assumption that the recursive behavior of complex systems results in the generation of physical forms and dynamic processes that are self-similar and scale-invariant. Such fractal-like structures and the organismic benefit that they engender has been widely noted in physiology, biology, and…
Descriptors: Syntax, Systems Approach, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Fogal, Gary G. – Applied Linguistics, 2019
Engaging a complexity theory view of learning, this study examined an atypical timescale for tracking L2 authorial voice development through the interaction of cognitive processes that inform voice construction. A microgenetic analysis of seven adult Japanese learners of English in a three-week writing course designed to help students develop…
Descriptors: Authors, Second Language Learning, Cognitive Processes, Adult Learning
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Peter Shukie – Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory & Practice, 2019
The rapid development of Web 2.0 technologies has created excitement and opportunity alongside fear and confusion. It seems no part of society, culture, economy and human life generally has been untouched as a new sense of chaos emerges. Across all sectors change has been experienced with a mixture of terror and exhilaration as disruption offers…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Web 2.0 Technologies, Opportunities, Fear
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McGray, Robert – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2014
In 1871, citizens of the war torn arrondissements of Paris, in the face of traumatic political and military turmoil, established a new local form of government. The Paris Commune, as this government became known as in the English world, attracted attention for its alternative political-economic organization. One notable commentator was Karl Marx…
Descriptors: Marxian Analysis, Critical Theory, Educational Practices, Adult Education
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Becker, Karin L.; Renger, Ralph – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
Reflective case narratives are a practical mechanism for conveying lessons learned for practice improvement. Their ability to transform experience into knowledge in a colloquial, narrative style positions reflective case narratives as a powerful learning tool with pedagogical benefits for the evaluation community. However, one criticism of…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Case Studies, Writing Strategies, Reflection
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McNicol, Sarah – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2017
Working with social haunting was a community-based participatory research project that aimed to investigate how contested pasts carry affective meanings in ways that defy conventional forms of knowledge representation. The project illustrated the potential of the use of playful approaches within adult learning and specifically within a radical…
Descriptors: Community Education, Adult Learning, Transformative Learning, Play
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Roessger, Kevin M. – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2017
Kevin M. Roessger is an assistant professor of adult and lifelong learning at the University of Arkansas. He teaches courses in all areas of adult learning and development. His research interests include behavioural analytic approaches to skills-based learning and reflection as a natural phenomenon. Current conceptualisations of reflection have…
Descriptors: Reflection, Adult Learning, Adult Education, Behavior Theories
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