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Motivating Adults to Learn Mathematics in the Workplace: A Trade Union Approach
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Kelly, Beth – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
The aim of this qualitative study is to explore adults' motivation to learn mathematics in the workplace and the role that the trade union education approach promoted in the United Kingdom plays in that motivation. The findings draw on data from 20 semi-structured in-depth interviews with adults learning mathematics, organised through their trade…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Workplace Learning, Unions, Foreign Countries
Scoping the Evidence for EarlyBird and EarlyBird Plus, Two United Kingdom-Developed Parent Education Training Programmes for Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Dawson-Squibb, John-Joe; Davids, Eugene Lee; de Vries, Petrus J. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
EarlyBird and EarlyBird Plus are parent education and training programmes designed by the UK National Autistic Society in 1997 and 2003, having been delivered to more than 27,000 families in 14 countries. These group-based programmes aim to (1) support parents immediately after diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, (2) empower parents,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Parent Education
Statistics in Public Policy Debates: Present Crises and Adult Mathematics Education
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Evans, Jeff – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2018
Statistics is one of the important branches of mathematics taught in schools, colleges and universities. It is also an important tool in public policy discussions. This paper focuses on the use of statistics in the latter context, rather than its use in adult mathematics education research. I review the key characteristics of the statistical…
Descriptors: Statistics, Public Policy, Adult Education, Mathematics Education
Where Now for Adult Learning?
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Keep, Ewart; Rogers, David; Hunt, Sally; Walden, Christopher; Fryer, Bob; Gorard, Stephen; Williams, Ceri; Jones, Wendy; Hartley, Ralph – Adults Learning, 2010
With 6 billion British pounds of public spending reductions already on the table, and far deeper cuts inevitable, what are the prospects for adult learning in the new Parliament? Some of the regular contributors of this journal were asked what they expected and what they would like to see. Ewart Keep warns that the coalition parties' commitments…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Educational Finance, Politics of Education, Educational Change
Changing Configurations of Adult Education in Transitional Times. Conference Proceedings of the Triennial European Research Conference of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) (7th, Berlin, Germany, September 4-7, 2013)
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Käpplinger, Bernd, Ed.; Lichte, Nina, Ed.; Haberzeth, Erik, Ed.; Kulmus, Claudia, Ed. – Online Submission, 2014
This book assembles over 50 papers from the 7th Triennial European Research Conference of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA), which was held from the 4th to the 7th of September 2013 at Humboldt-University in Berlin. The title of the conference was "Changing Configurations of Adult Education in Transitional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students