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Boyadjieva, Pepka; Ilieva-Trichkova, Petya – Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, 2021
This book re-imagines the essence and role of adult education at both the individual and societal levels. It provides arguments for understanding adult education as a process of agency and empowerment, which has not only instrumental but intrinsic and transformative roles to play. This book brings together ideas from the capability approach with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Role, Personal Autonomy
Kilpatrick, Sue; Burns, Gemma; Barnes, Robin Katersky; Kerrison, Marcel; Fischer, Sarah – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2020
The research, focused on parents with children in years 5-10 in three low-socioeconomic rural and regional communities, drew on an understanding of educational aspiration as culturally and socio-spatially embedded to develop practical strategies for parents to engage with their children as they made education and career pathways choices. It draws…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Parents, Economically Disadvantaged, Career Pathways
Alajlan, Sarah M. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2020
Educated-neighborhood programs are lifelong-learning projects created by the Saudi government to achieve a positive effect on the economic, social, and cultural factors. These programs provide various training skills that should support Saudi Vision 2030 and help adults to deal with their lives. Therefore, this study aimed to discover how much…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Marital Status, Vocational Education
Bien-Gund, Susannah; Elrowmeim, Somia – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
In this chapter, the former and current directors of adult education at the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) discuss strategies from their shared process of fostering community, student leadership, and empowerment in AAANY's community-based literacy program. Amid the challenges for learners and the program connected to the 2016…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Adult Education, Student Leadership, Student Empowerment
Baruch, Ben; Leenders, Emma; Disley, Emma – RAND Europe, 2021
This is a summary of a case study that analyses two campaigns for parents in Israel: the Magic Moments campaign focussing on the Hebrew speaking population and the Beautiful Moments campaign focussing on the Arabic speaking population. Both campaigns aimed to raise parental awareness of how the time they spend with children contributes to child…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Change, Foreign Countries
Rufsvold, Ronda; Smolen, Elaine; Hartman, Maria; Fleming, Lauren – Journal of Early Intervention, 2023
Parents of children who are newly identified as deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) face many decisions surrounding communication and intervention, including where to receive early intervention (EI) services. This study explored the experiences and perspectives of parents of DHH children enrolled in a center-based, family-centered EI program focused on…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities, Parent Attitudes
Obidiegwu, Uche Josephine; Erharuyi, Nosakhare Richard – Commission for International Adult Education, 2020
The study was carried out to access the activities of Idia renaissance skill acquisition programme in enhancing livelihood among women in Benin City. The need for the study arose as a result of the rising cases of unemployment, poverty, human trafficking, experienced in Benin City. The study was guided by four research questions and three null…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Skill Development, Unemployment
Pellecchia, Melanie; Beidas, Rinad S.; Mandell, David S.; Cannuscio, Carolyn C.; Dunst, Carl J.; Stahmer, Aubyn C. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Background: Parent-mediated early interventions (EI) for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can result in significant improvements in children's cognitive ability, social functioning, behavior, and adaptive skills, as well as improvements in parental self-efficacy and treatment engagement. The common component to efficacious parent-…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Empowerment, Coaching (Performance), Early Intervention
Kim, Won – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2021
Despite a wide-spread pedagogical interest and scholarly conviction in the possibilities of educational drama for creating more contextually-situated, engaging, and multi-modal L2 learning experiences (Piazzoli, 2018; Stinson & Winston, 2011), there is scarce empirical evidence concerning what is actually taking place interactionally in L2…
Descriptors: Drama, Teaching Methods, Adult Education, Second Language Learning
Rios, Kristina; Burke, Meghan M. – Exceptionality, 2021
Family-professional partnership is an essential component of the special education process for children with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD). However, many families face barriers to participation in the special education process. Latino families especially face systemic barriers when participating in educational…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Barriers
Magaña, Sandra; Tejero Hughes, Marie; Salkas, Kristen; Gonzales, Wendy; Núñez, Giselle; Morales, Miguel; Garcia Torres, Mariana; Moreno-Angarita, Marisol – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Knowledge and identification of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are increasing in Latin America, yet there are limited resources available to help families of children with ASD. For this study, researchers adapted and tested a parent educational program created for Latino immigrant parents of children with ASD in the United States to the needs of…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Foreign Countries, Parent Education
Zhu, Yidan – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2019
Participatory action research (PAR), as a research methodology, challenges conventional, positivist, and scientific approaches. Recent adult education studies on PAR have explored how to develop PAR to enhance research practice and further the "democratizing aims of adult education" (Joyappa & Martin, 1996). Historically, as a part…
Descriptors: Action Research, Participatory Research, Adult Education, Empowerment
Galloway, Sarah – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
This paper takes up an existing discussion around critical perspectives on adult education, in particular how empowerment and emancipation have been understood. Previously in this journal, concern has been raised with traditional understandings of critical adult education. The problem is that these tend to assume that learners require assistance…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Empowerment
Baruch, Ben; Leenders, Emma; Disley, Emma – RAND Europe, 2021
This case study analyses two campaigns developed by the Bernard van Leer Foundation and Hop! Media Group for parents in Israel: the Magic Moments campaign focussing on the Hebrew speaking population and the Beautiful Moments campaign focussing on the Arabic speaking population. Both campaigns aimed to raise parental awareness of how the time they…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Change, Foreign Countries
Zeng, Weiwen; Magaña, Sandy; Lopez, Kristina; Xu, Yue; Marroquín, J. Marisol – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
This study examined maintenance of treatment effects in a culturally tailored parent education program for Latinx families of children with autism spectrum disorder using a behavior maintenance framework. In a two-site randomized waitlist-control study, we compared differences in parent and child outcomes across three timepoints using linear mixed…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Behavior Modification