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Wilhelmson, Lena; Åberg, Marie Moström; Backström, Tomas; Olsson, Bengt Köping – Journal of Transformative Education, 2015
The aim of this article is to discuss the potential of an educative research intervention to influence the quality of the learning outcome in the workplace as interpreted from the perspectives of adult learning theory. The research project was designed as a quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study. In this article, quantitative survey data were…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Workplace Learning, Intervention, Adult Learning
Bjørke, Lars; Standal, Øyvind Førland; Mordal Moen, Kjersti – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
Instead of 'the frenetic rush' to find effective models of continuing professional development (CPD) that will 'work', Armour et al. (2017, What is 'effective' CPD for contemporary physical education teachers? A Deweyan framework. "Sport, Education and Society," "22"(7), 799-811. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2015.1083000)…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education, Elementary School Teachers
Hussein, Jeylan Wolyie; Bedasa, Nigusie Angessa – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2017
The article presents analysis of the epistemological, pedagogical and methodological processes and dilemmas that unfolded during our efforts to transform the conceptions and understandings of our participants' thinking about ways of managing land-related conflicts. The paper reports our evaluation of the thinking and perspectives that guided our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Land Use, Land Acquisition, Conflict
Ollis, Tracey Anne – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2020
This paper outlines adult learning in a rural campaign to prevent mining for coal seam gas in Victoria. In central Gippsland, largely known as the food bowl in the State of Victoria in Australia, a campaign against fracking for coal seam gas has managed to gain a permanent ban on fracking. This policy change would not have been possible without…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Activism, Informal Education, Incidental Learning
Wildemeersch, Danny – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2012
This paper reports on a research project completed with graduate students of the adult-education programme at the Leuven University in Flanders, Belgium. The research focused on cultural policies and practices in urban contexts that try to facilitate the learning of democratic citizenship in non-formal settings. In the first part we introduce some…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Research Projects, Adult Education
Axelsson, Gun B. M. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2009
Mathematical identity and its relationship to mathematical achievement, educative ability and study support were studied among 133 women enrolled in the Swedish adult education system. A model of mathematical identity was constructed including self-perceived mathematical knowledge, ability, motivation and anxiety. This model was transformed into a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Females, Family Relationship, Adult Education
Vanek, Jenifer B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research explores the difficulties faced by many migrant, refugee, and immigrant adults confronted with technological ubiquity in economically developed countries. Preparing migrant adult learners for the digital world by building digital literacy skills can help to maintain home language proficiency, support English language learning, and…
Descriptors: Migrants, Adult Learning, Computer Literacy, Media Literacy
Brewer, Elizabeth, Ed.; Ogden, Anthony C., Ed. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2019
This volume focuses on two questions. First, how can education abroad be embedded into undergraduate education so that students experience it as an integral component of their education and something they help shape, rather than as time away from their education and as a commodity to be consumed? Second, how can colleges and universities maximize…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Undergraduate Students, Integrated Activities, Educational Experience
Yorks, Lyle; Nicolaides, Aliki – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background/Context: The implications of complexity theory have become a recurring topic in the literatures of a wide range of scholarly and professional fields including adult education. This paper builds on literature calling attention to the educational need for pedagogically addressing the implications of the intensifying complexity in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Student Attitudes, Adult Development
Wood, Ann L.; Stanulis, Randi Nevins – New Educator, 2009
The purpose of this essay is to describe quality teacher induction that has evolved from "fourth-wave" (1997-2006) teacher induction program development and research. A definition of quality induction is proposed, and a set of induction goals and components are outlined. Understandings gained from fourth-wave programs are described, including ways…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Educational Quality, Program Descriptions
Rodd, Helen; Stewart, Heather – Youth Studies Australia, 2009
Professional identity is an ongoing topic of discussion in the youth work literature. This paper looks at one of the key elements of the definition of youth work: the relationships that youth workers establish with young people. It presents research findings which suggest that youth workers have multidimensional relationships with young people…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Young Adults, Counselor Client Relationship, Caseworker Approach
Vozzo, Les – Educational Action Research, 2011
The focus is a self-study of my own practice and how I investigated my educative practice in facilitating the professional learning of a group of teacher researchers. Two key questions are answered: How did I support teacher researchers with their inquiries? How did this contribution shape my professional identity as an educator? This self-study…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Teacher Researchers, Hermeneutics, Classroom Techniques
McCulloch, K.; McLaughlin, P.; Allison, P.; Edwards, V.; Tett, L. – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
This paper describes the process and findings of a multinational study of the characteristics of sail training for young people. The study used a structured qualitative method and involved "indigenous practitioner-researchers" who collected the majority of the data. Our findings show that participation provides an opportunity for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aquatic Sports, Adventure Education, Interpersonal Competence
Dudzinska-Przesmitzki, Dana; Grenier, Robin S. – Journal of Museum Education, 2008
The taking up of an "educative" mantle has proven to be a complex task for museums, filled with many unknown and/or misunderstood factors. Of the vast assortment of educational opportunities museums afford their adult patrons and staff, the majority fall into one or two learning categories: either they are nonformal or informal. In effort to…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Engines
Apple, Michael W., Ed.; Au, Wayne, Ed.; Gandin, Luis Armando, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education" is the first authoritative reference work to provide an international analysis of the relationship between power, knowledge, education, and schooling. Rather than focusing solely on questions of how we teach efficiently and effectively, contributors to this volume push further…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, International Education, Political Attitudes, Economic Development
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