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Annen, Silvia – International Journal of Training and Development, 2023
In Germany and Canada, the integration of immigrants into the labour market is closely related to the various approaches towards the recognition and validation of informal learning. This paper aims to analyse the informal learning measures undertaken by immigrants as well as those offered by employers in the health and information and…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Inclusion, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
Robertson, Scott Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The scholarly study of punk is a growing interdisciplinary field. Within that already specialized group, research into punk pedagogy is emerging as a vital component of punk scholarship. However, no study in punk pedagogy has narrowed its scope to any one influential punk band to determine what constitutes its punk pedagogy. This dissertation…
Descriptors: Hidden Curriculum, Music, Subcultures, Foreign Countries
Shuyuan Liu; Kenneth Gyamerah; Claire Ahn; Thashika Pillay – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2024
The current structure of formal education makes it difficult for teachers and students to hold meaningful conversations to support high-school youth's meaning-making of critical social-justice issues. This paper presents data on three high-school youth's knowledge and experiences with social justice issues during the pandemic. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Social Justice, Informal Education
Fahrenbach, Florian; Luomi-Messerer, Karin – European Journal of Training and Development, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to draw on a socio-technical perspective to explore how information and communication technology (ICT) supports the validation of non-formal and informal learning (VNFIL) in specific practices and arrangements. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use qualitative content analysis to analyse 43 country reports of the…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Nonformal Education, Informal Education, Foreign Countries
Julia Fuoco; Nina Howe; Sandra Della Porta; Hildy S. Ross – Early Education and Development, 2024
This study investigated parents' and siblings' knowledge use during naturalistic teaching episodes in the home. Thirty-seven middle-class families were observed for six 90-minute sessions (siblings aged 4 and 6 years). Parent and sibling teaching sequences were coded for knowledge type (conceptual, procedural), conceptual subcategories (social…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Parents as Teachers, Foreign Countries, Siblings
Hladik, Stephanie; Sengupta, Pratim; Shanahan, Marie-Claire – Cognition and Instruction, 2023
In this paper, we emphasize the importance of looking beyond technology itself and including interactional and experiential elements in our research gaze in informal computing education in science museums. We argue that, in these contexts, facilitation can be understood as "design work" that is both complex and challenging. We identify…
Descriptors: Museums, Facilitators (Individuals), Science Teaching Centers, Informal Education
Kim G. C. Hellemans; Wayne Horn; Vincent Kazmierski; Martha Mullally; Eileen Harris – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
This article presents the results of the development and implementation of a mentorship program, now in its sixth year, designed to support the professional development of teaching skills for faculty and contract instructors. The program is unique in that it is a combination of a variety of other approaches such as formal and informal mentoring as…
Descriptors: Mentors, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Program Development
Spencer, Stephanie – History of Education, 2021
Historians of education are well placed to engage in applied historical approaches providing authoritative evidence of the past to inform policy and practice. This article is based on the presidential keynote delivered at the History of Education Society (UK) annual conference in 2019. As such it reflects on possible future directions for the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Informal Education, Foreign Countries, Recreational Reading
Pathways into Creativity and Place for Adult Learning: A Dialogue between a Researcher and an Artist
Mason, Stephanie; de Condé, Rachel – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2022
The purpose of this article is to share how two friends approach creativity in their professional lives in research and in the arts, and what we have learned through insights into places that impact this work. Our different approaches are reflected in our positionalities: one author is an emerging arts-informed researcher and university…
Descriptors: Researchers, College Faculty, Artists, Friendship
Bradshaw, Kathlyn; Lock, Jennifer; Parchoma, Gale – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2020
In this article, third generation cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) (Engeström, 2011) will be the means for analyzing tensions and contradictions between formal and informal learning within a MOOC design. This article builds on previous work (Bradshaw et al., 2017) wherein CHAT was used to establish formal and informal learning as…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Online Courses, Educational Opportunities, Sustainability
Christine Slade; Guy J. Curtis; Sheona Thomson – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
In the past decade, extra-institutional file-sharing and homework-help websites have gone from being small-scale operations to large corporate businesses. File-sharing and homework-help websites threaten academic integrity when students use assessment work sourced from these sites as if it were their own. However, little is known about how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Shared Resources and Services, Homework
Hudson Hill, Shiralee – Journal of Museum Education, 2020
Art has the power to activate learning and emotion in unique ways--this is true of humans generally, and museum visitors specifically. Yet art galleries are often overlooked in the museum field as forums for dialogue and sites of learning about climate change. This article investigates the significance of artist-led projects and art museum…
Descriptors: Art, Climate, Environmental Education, Museums
Yakamovich, Jennifer; Wright, Tarah – Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
Addressing global climate change beyond short-term fixes requires wider cultural change. Artists, as cultural workers, play a valuable role in attending to questions of social and ecological justice. While there is growing artistic engagement with environmental research, there are few studies which critically explore the confluence of contemporary…
Descriptors: Artists, Art, Transformative Learning, Environmental Education
Burke, Lydia E. Carol-Ann; Al-khooly, Dina; Schaffer, Kristen – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2023
This article details the learning experiences emerging from a research collaboration between a university-based research team and an informal education provider (the STEM Academy). The aim was to enhance the community responsiveness of a series of science clubs for children living in low-income communities in a metropolitan area of Canada. The…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Science Programs, Science Education, Clubs
McVicar, Lindsay; Roy, Carole – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2022
Adult education has a long tradition of engagement in social justice, but prisoners do not seem to garner much attention. This paper presents the findings of a case study of nine incarcerated women who attended a weekly screening of a documentary followed by a discussion for four weeks and individual interviews with all participants. Preliminary…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions