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Bencze, Larry; Carter, Lyn; Groleau, Audrey; Krstovic, Mirjan; Levinson, Ralph; Martin, Jenny; Martins, Isabel; Pouliot, Chantal; Weinstein, Matthew – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2019
There are many potential harms to individuals, societies and environments associated with powerful "networks" of living, nonliving and symbolic entities (actants), such as financiers, banks, think tanks, transnational trade organizations and agreements, competitiveness, scientists, engineers, universities, governments, military,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science and Society, Neoliberalism, Inquiry
Browning, Kimberly F. – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2020
The recognition of prior learning (RPL) has been implemented to varying degrees across Canada in secondary schools and post-secondary institutions, through workplace training models, businesses, sector councils and industry groups, apprenticeship, the military, and professional accrediting/regulatory bodies. RPL however remains fragmented and…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Kanwar, Asha; Balasubramanian, K.; Carr, Alexis – International Journal of Training Research, 2019
The digital revolution is rapidly transforming the world of work and the skills profiles of many occupations. The pace of change necessitates continuous skilling and reskilling, through lifelong learning. Traditional models of TVET which view formal training as terminal will not prepare workers for the constantly evolving world of work in an age…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Models, Informal Education, Educational Innovation
Marsden, Scott – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
My insurgent curatorial strategy incorporates theory around dialogue and is used to develop a participatory and collaborative process that gives voice to those who are marginalised and/or disfranchised and are suppressed by dominant social narratives. My strategy demonstrates how art galleries and museums can function as sites for community…
Descriptors: Museums, Art, Creativity, Disadvantaged
Banchero, Paola; Rector, Travis A.; VanBallenberghe, Jonathan – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2021
The public's understanding of climate change has been plagued by poor communication, misinformation, and disinformation. Fortunately, there is a growing body of research on effective climate change communication strategies. A popular element of science communication is documentary film. Educational films produced for museums, planetariums, and…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Climate, Communication Strategies, Informal Education
Rahm, Jrène – Environmental Education Research, 2018
How can we 'desettle' the colonial discourse and worldview of botanical gardens and its practices in teaching about plants? How can we move towards engaging deeply with who we are and think we are in relation to place, land, and the world, grounded in an intricate sense of harmony? How can we move our work in botanic gardens beyond regarding land,…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Informal Education, Gardening, Foreign Countries
Snow, Kathy; Tulk, Janice – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2020
Grassroots organizations have a critical role in supporting learning within many urban communities (Sobeck, Agius, & Mayers, 2007). Unfortunately, many informal organizations are short-lived as funding disappears and volunteer participation wanes. The Unspun Heroes, an informal fibre arts group committed to learning and developing skills…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Community Action, Handicrafts, Communities of Practice
Morrison, Dirk; Koole, Marguerite – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2018
The study investigated how retired older adults (age 55+) use the Internet and social media to facilitate informal, self-directed learning, specifically, exploring how they use mobile devices (smartphones, tablets) to enhance, access and maintain their online personal learning networks (oPLNs), facilitating "on-the-go" learning.…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Internet
Zanazanian, Paul – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2019
As an object of inquiry for research and educational purposes, this article introduces the concept of "history-as-interpretive-filter" and operationalises it as a novel approach to examining the impact of individuals' historical consciousness on their epistemic positioning when faced with social problems of a historical character. In…
Descriptors: History, History Instruction, Consciousness Raising, Epistemology
Fitzgibbons, Megan; Kloda, Lorie; Miller-Nesbitt, Andrea – College & Research Libraries, 2017
Journal clubs are meetings where participants engage in discussion or appraisal of professional literature and research. This study investigates the perceived value of librarians' participation in journal clubs. Using a hermeneutic dialectic process, we built a construction of the value of journal club participation based on interviews with…
Descriptors: Librarians, Communities of Practice, Professional Development, Informal Education
Soleas, Eleftherios; Bolden, Ben – Canadian Journal of Education, 2020
Past innovation research has focused on business contexts and prodigy, leaving the insights of today's successful innovators in a range of fields overlooked in their utility to inform the education of our next generation of innovators. This mixed method study combined surveys (n = 500) and interviews (n = 30) of Canadian innovators to identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Capacity Building, Motivation
Johnson, Kay – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2019
Museums as colonial institutions are filled with the tensions and contradictions of competing discourses. This makes them complex sites of public pedagogy and informal adult education and learning. But they are also becoming important spaces of counter-narrative, self-representation, and resistance as Indigenous artists and curators intervene, and…
Descriptors: Museums, Adult Education, Informal Education, Artists
Poyntz, Stuart R.; Coles, Rebecca; Fitzsimmons-Frey, Heather; Bains, Alysha; Sefton-Green, Julian; Hoechsmann, Michael – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
The 'learning city' contains a range of non-formal learning economies. In recent years researchers have focused on, what has been termed, the non-formal arts learning sector, to document best practices, the emergence of new literacies and/or cultural practices, and to highlight interventions that support otherwise marginalised and underserved…
Descriptors: Art Education, Informal Education, Best Practices, Intervention
Brigham, Susan M.; Baillie Abidi, Catherine; Zhang, Yuhui – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
Migration is a gendered phenomenon, embedded within patriarchal structures and social relations that extend beyond State borders. We draw on a transnational feminist framework to explore the gendered dimensions of young refugee and immigrant women's migration and learning experiences. Ten women were involved in a participatory photography research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Photography, Migrants, Refugees
Carol-Ann Burke, Lydia E. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Children in low-income neighbourhoods experience an intersection of socio-structural factors that delimit their engagement with out-of-school (informal) science education. Using Bourdieu's framework of habitus, this paper explores how informal science educators and children in a given low-income community in western Canada described the attitudes,…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Science Education, Low Income, Context Effect