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Baumann, Sheron; Keimer, Imke – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This contribution examines individual benefits of continuing higher education courses provided by a business school. Lifelong learning is important when it comes to keeping up with changing professional requirements and conditions. Adult education and training courses in the form of continuing higher education offer an organized and systematic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Benefits, Business Schools, Informal Education
Kilis, Emils; Adamsone-Fiskovica, Anda; Šumane, Sandra; Tisenkopfs, Talis – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2022
Purpose: To advance the discussion of retro-innovation and highlight the implications this has for the provision of agricultural advice and the role of advisors. Design/Methodology/Approach: 70 interviews with farmers and 10 interviews with experts on biological pest control and direct marketing in Latvia were conducted. Findings: Biological pest…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Innovation, Animals, Foreign Countries
Chun Lai; Qianshan Chen; Yabing Wang; Xuedan Qi – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Individual interest and self-regulation are two pillars of self-directed learning. Despite empirical evidence on the interaction between the two with respect to academic achievement, few studies have explored how individual interest and self-regulation might interact and relate to self-directed informal learning. This study surveyed 322 university…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Interests, Independent Study, Informal Education
Emily Dawson; Raj Bista; Amanda Colborne; Beau-Jensen McCubbin; Spela Godec; Uma Patel; Louise Archer; Ada Mau – Science Education, 2024
Understanding equitable practice is crucial for science education since science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and STEM learning practices remain significantly marked by structural inequalities. In this paper, building on theories of discourse and situated meaning developed by Foucault, Gee, and Sedgewick, we explore how…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Inclusion, Minority Group Students, Equal Education
Maria Impedovo; Anne-Marie Cederqvist – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background: There is a growing interest in the complexity of socio-materiality-making activities in educational and everyday settings. Indeed, maker-centered learning is considered as a socio-materially embodied process in which artifacts and social and emotional dimensions are interconnected. The making process is also found in everyday life when…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, STEM Education, Sustainable Development, Learning Activities
Herri Mulyono; Zain Adinul Falah; Gunawan Suryoputro; Florante Ibarra – Discover Education, 2024
This study addresses the limited exploration in the literature regarding the influence of EFL teachers' informal digital learning of English (IDLE) on their creativity in Indonesian EFL classroom instructions. Using a cross-sectional survey design, data were collected from 244 Indonesian EFL teachers, encompassing both pre-service and in-service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Informal Education
Katariina Mertanen; Kristiina Brunila – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
The OECD has become a notable predictor of the future needs of society and education. In youth education, the OECD spearheads global strategies, initiatives and recommendations about the curriculum and goals for education. By evoking the sense of 'crisis' in 'traditional education' the OECD functions as a central node of precision education…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Youth, Conventional Instruction
Oliveira, Bianca Hipólito; Bizerra, Alessandra Fernandes – Science Education, 2024
The term social participation is widely used and has various meanings in different contexts. This article aims to enhance the understanding of social participation in science museums. The research was conducted using a cultural-historical perspective in six steps: (1) survey to identify the meanings attributed to the term social participation and…
Descriptors: Museums, Foreign Countries, Models, Participation
Suleyman Karatas; Tayfun Yörük; Reyhan Nazaroglu; Abbas Dogan; Ramazan Burak Kahyaoglu – SAGE Open, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the opinions of administrators about the effect of administrator replacement circulation in non-formal education institutions providing adult education on organizational culture. In this qualitative study, ten randomly selected administrators were interviewed using the convenience sampling method. The data…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Adult Education, Organizational Culture, Administrator Attitudes
Boris Vazquez-Calvo; Sergio Duarte-Marti; Leticia-Tian Zhang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Online informal language learning has surged due to the growing interaction on social networking sites, such as TikTok and YouTube. One vital interaction method is through comments, revealing insights into learner behaviors and thoughts. Concurrently, the "Korean Wave" has made Korean a sought-after language. This study examined comments…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Korean, Social Media, Video Technology
Judith Oller; Anna Engel; Maria José Rochera – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
This article presents an exploratory study examining the importance that students attribute to pedagogical strategies focused on bridging learning in-and-out of school. The aim is twofold: to analyse students' views of such strategies in different types of school (personalised learning--PL--and mirror schools), and to investigate whether different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, High School Teachers, Learning Experience
Wetzel, Melissa Mosley; Holyoke, Erica; Alexander, Kerry H.; Dunham, Heather; Collins, Claire – Harvard Education Press, 2023
In "Coaching in Communities," researcher Melissa Mosley Wetzel and her coauthors distill the lessons of an eight-year study into a transformative educator training model, Coaching with CARE (critical and content-focused, appreciative, reflective, and experiential). They demonstrate how effective, contextual teacher training can be a…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Teacher Education, Program Effectiveness, Models
Virta, Jukka; Hökkä, Päivi; Eteläpelto, Anneli; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena – European Physical Education Review, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the significance of informal learning contexts in physical education (PE) student teachers' professional identity construction. It addressed two research questions: How do informal learning contexts contribute to the construction of PE student teachers' professional identity? What forms of relationships can be…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Physical Education Teachers, Student Teachers, Professional Identity
Benish, Diane; Langdon, Jody; Culp, Brian – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2023
Background: Novice coaches receive little attention in the literature as many studies choose to focus on experienced and elite level coaches. Those involved in the development of coaches have a responsibility to understand how novice coaches are navigating their initial coaching experiences within higher education programs. Purpose: The purpose of…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletic Coaches, Novices, Higher Education
Woods, Peter J.; Jones, Karis – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
Responding to both recent interest in sound within qualitative education research and sound studies literature that conceptualizes sound as a posthuman technology, we use this paper to explore the following research questions: How does sound both enact and unveil posthuman learning ecologies? And how can education scholars engage sound within…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Humanism, Game Based Learning, Ecology