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Direct linkMooney, Des – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2011
Using a qualitative case study method the researcher studied a group of adult returning students completing a childcare course. Methods used included focus groups, a questionnaire and observations. Using a holistic analysis approach (Yin 2003) of the case the researcher then focused on a number of key issues. From this analysis the themes of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Reentry Students
Heywood, John – 1996
This report describes a course in the Irish student-teacher curriculum that was designed in response to criticisms of post-graduate teacher training that it was too theoretical and insufficiently practical. The design of the Applied Psychology of Instruction course was based on the teacher-as-researcher paradigm of professionalism. Student…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
