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Leon Annett; Neil Hennessy; Alex McInch – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
One of the hallmarks of an ever-changing educational landscape is that students are paying considerably higher fees to study higher education courses, including those offered by college-based HE providers. As such, the student experience becomes of paramount importance to ensure student needs are met. To this end, this project sought to discover…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Higher Education, Educational Facilities Planning, Multicampus Colleges
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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
Heckethorn, Joel E.; Giovacchini, Michael; Doubet, Kristina J. – Educational Leadership, 2021
High school instructional leaders describe how they reframed professional learning around autonomy with structured support. The new system, guided by trust and teacher inquiry, sparked innovation that proved critical during the pandemic.
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Faculty Development, Professional Autonomy, Teacher Empowerment
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Zhou, Hongyan; Tu, Chia-Ching – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2021
This study was designed to investigate factors that influence university teachers' lifelong learning from the perspective of professional development. This study built a framework on Jarvis' lifelong learning definition which is rooted in the constructivist paradigm, indicating that adult lifelong learning is a process constantly constructed and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning
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Díez-Palomar, Javier – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
In this paper, dialogue among a group of adult women with basic adult education is examined. Women read books of mathematics in the context of a "dialogic mathematics gathering" (DMG). There is limited evidence in research on how adults develop their 'numerical understanding'. The objective of this study is to analyze how adults engage…
Descriptors: Females, Critical Thinking, Adult Basic Education, Numeracy
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Zarestky, Jill; Ray, Sarah M. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
Adult education is a key component of worldwide collaborative efforts to achieve social justice aims, such as the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Such collaborative efforts require the involvement of all sectors, including non-governmental organisations (NGOs). In particular, given the prevalence of globalising and neoliberal influences on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Nongovernmental Organizations, Social Justice, Sustainable Development
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Dawson-Squibb, John-Joe; Davids, Eugene Lee; de Vries, Petrus J. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
EarlyBird and EarlyBird Plus are parent education and training programmes designed by the UK National Autistic Society in 1997 and 2003, having been delivered to more than 27,000 families in 14 countries. These group-based programmes aim to (1) support parents immediately after diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, (2) empower parents,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Parent Education
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Wilkerson, Amanda; Samuels, Shalander – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2019
The purpose of this article is to enhance understanding of how Black female working class adult scholars cultivated support and advancement in the academy with the goal of entering the professoriate. In this critical ethnography, the authors elaborate on the concept of empowerment agent to detail how professionals within the academy created…
Descriptors: Empowerment, African Americans, Females, Scholarship
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Vosough Matin, Mehrossâdat; Sari, Hakan – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2023
It is known that formal and informal educational support resources for what parents can do about the development of their children and how they can cope with the difficulties encountered after diagnosing individuals with ASD are insufficient. Therefore, this research was conducted to evaluate the effect of the education program developed for…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Parent Attitudes
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Mengistie, Tilahun Adamu – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2021
Notwithstanding their contribution to the development of any society, women are the underclass. Their participation in social, economic, and political spheres could be limited because of illiteracy. To improve their involvement, providing adult education is incontestable. This article examines Ethiopian women's empowerment through Integrated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Females, Empowerment
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Ilieva-Trichkova, Petya; Boyadjieva, Pepka – Studies in Continuing Education, 2020
This article aims to explore how the situation of unemployment and -- more generally -- early job insecurity affects young people's scope for exercising agency with regard to decisions about continuing and improving their education. Drawing on the theoretical underpinnings of the capability approach, the article develops the concept of patterns of…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Job Security, Unemployment, Youth Employment
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Suh, Emily K. – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2020
English language learners' nonparticipation and reticence in adult literacy classes are often presented problematically from a deficit lens of student "resistance" and "disengagement." This article draws from an ethnographic case study of Generation 1 learners, who are defined as adult-arrival immigrant learners, transitioning…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Participation, Adult Students, Adult Literacy
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Anneleis Humphries; Catherine Smith; Julie Choi – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
Young people from refugee backgrounds in Australia face numerous barriers to successful tertiary education. One key challenge is developing critical literacy skills beyond basic language proficiency. Critical literacy empowers students to understand power relations, critique underlying assumptions and explore issues of belonging -- factors crucial…
Descriptors: Refugees, Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Escolar Chua, Rowena L.; de Guzman, Allan B. – Educational Gerontology, 2018
A considerable number of studies have been carried out to explore the experiences of the elderly engaging in third age education, however, most of these investigations have focused on elderly motivation, the benefits accruing from their participation, and the barriers they have encountered during their lifelong learning experience. However, there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Adult Education, Lifelong Learning
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Johnson, Michelle A. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
This article examines the intersection of race and poverty on the lives of Black women living in urban communities. Historical systemic racism continues to leave many marginalized communities on the periphery and struggling to maneuver in a society that limits access to empowerment to move out of poverty. To transform the lives of those living in…
Descriptors: Females, African Americans, Race, Racial Bias
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