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North Korean Women Entrepreneurs Learning from Failure
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Choi, Jinhee; Prins, Esther – International Review of Education, 2023
Migrants' workplace experiences in their host society, including failure, shape their social adjustment, yet "how" migrants learn from failures is under-investigated. The study presented here examined how North Korean migrants struggling for a foothold in South Korea sought to learn from failures in their workplaces and everyday life.…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Dining Facilities, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
IT and Computer Technologies for Education of Senior Citizens and Improving the Quality of Their Life
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Anikeeva, Olga A.; Sizikova, Valeriya V.; Demidova, Tatiana E.; Starovojtova, Larisa I.; Akhtyan, Anna G.; Godzhieva, Regina B.; Karpunina, Anastasia V.; Maydangalieva, Zhumagul A. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
At present, IT have become an indispensable condition for the quality of education, but they are rarely applied in education of senior citizens and their range is quite narrow. An exception is the methods of teaching computer literacy to older adults, which is much narrower than IT in education. Meanwhile, they are no less essential both for…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Quality of Life, Well Being
Career Transitions and Professional Development of Bulgarian Immigrants in the United States
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Angelova, Iva – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
This paper focuses on job transitions and professional development of immigrants in the United States. Using narrative as a method and exploring Bulgarian immigrants' personal experience stories, this report shares some of the findings from the author's dissertation. Upon coming to the United States, the Bulgarian immigrants experienced a…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Migrant Education, Professional Development, Career Development
Nonformal Learning and Well-Being among Older Adults: Links between Participation in Swedish Study Circles, Feelings of Well-Being and Social Aspects of Learning
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Åberg, Pelle – Educational Gerontology, 2016
How does participation in nonformal learning influence the self-perceived well-being among older adults? This article looks into that issue through a study of people aged 65 years or older who have participated in Swedish study circles. The data analyzed consists of a nation-wide survey of study circle participants. The results show that there are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Adult Education, Informal Education
Cross-Cultural HRD.
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1996
This document consists of three papers presented at a symposium on cross-cultural human resource development (HRD) moderated by Connie Fletcher at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development. "Intercultural Adjustment of U.S. Expatriates in the People's Republic of China" (Hallett G. Hullinger, Robert E. Nolan)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Adult and Continuing Education: Stage 1: Issue Identification.
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of Research, Planning, and Evaluation. – 1973
The issue of adult and continuing education in New Jersey has been examined as part of a Federal project (Project Next Step: Mutuality of Planning). National role, trends, and problems of adult and continuing education are summarized briefly in the first section while the next section includes a summary of the adult education programs in New…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adults, Criminals