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Xi Lin – Adult Learning, 2024
This qualitative study examines student learning experiences toward a student-developed case study activity for online discussion guided by a three-tier case method model. Forty-five students were recruited from four online adult education courses. Analysis of students' feedback shows that this activity leads to students' positive learning…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Adults, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Julie M. Galliart; Kevin M. Roessger – Adult Learning, 2024
Practitioners of adult education have a long history of teaching for social change. They may, however, be uncomfortable using quantitative methods to assess the impact of their learning activities, or they might lack access to statistical analysis software. Quantitative methods help the practitioner determine whether behavioral or attitudinal…
Descriptors: Social Change, Adult Learning, Statistical Analysis, Methods
Judith A. Alamprese – Adult Learning, 2024
The pervasive role of digital technologies in adult learning and education (ALE) was a prominent theme throughout the deliberations of the Seventh International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII) held June 15-17, 2022 in Morocco. CONFINTEA VII embodied the worldwide interest in digital technologies through the use of a hybrid format…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Educational Environment, Technological Literacy
Linda E. Morris – Adult Learning, 2024
During CONFINTEA VII's Panel 4: "Preparing adults for the future of work" and throughout the conference, participants grappled with crafting a "transformative agenda," where adult learning and education (ALE) prepares adults for future workplaces, education is viewed as an individual right and a common good, and sustainable…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Sustainability, Futures (of Society), Education Work Relationship
Wendy Griswold – Adult Learning, 2024
Climate change and climate education concern more than climate and the environment, as our social and economic systems both rely upon and are impacted by climate and environment. We cannot address the human impact on our global climate and local environments without several nations reconstructing their social and economic systems to be equitable…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Adult Learning, Sustainable Development
Jang, Kyoungjin; Lkhagvadulam, Battuya; Chang, Wonsup – Adult Learning, 2023
This is an exploratory study on returning migrants as adult learners preparing to return to their home countries. We examined the educational needs and learning experiences of nine Mongolian migrants returning from South Korea who participated in vocational education programs for imminent returnees. Our qualitative analysis found that returning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrants, Low Achievement, Skills
Zarestky, Jill; Vilen, Lauren – Adult Learning, 2023
Many key concerns require engagement with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) knowledge. Consider the complexity and nuance of climate change, energy policy, health and medicine, and data security. Informed voting or decision-making on such issues is no easy task; effective participation in our society requires considerable…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Learning, STEM Education, Democracy
Haren Conely, Linnea M.; Cordie, Leslie A. – Adult Learning, 2023
Using structural regression analyses, data from the U.S. 2017 Program on International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) background survey were examined to test the effect of informal learning (observed through everyday activities, such as reading the newspaper or using the Internet to find information about issues) on civic engagement…
Descriptors: Adults, Informal Education, Learning, Lifelong Learning
Barcinas, Susan J.; Fleener, M. Jayne – Adult Learning, 2023
Adult education has historically played a role in modern democracies in support of civic participation and democratic engagement. In the context of a relatively stable and unchanging society, learning "about" and participating "in" the democratic process allow for tweaking the mechanisms of democracy. In present times, taken…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Role of Education, Literacy
Hoggan, Chad; Hoggan-Kloubert, Tetyana; Owen, Renee – Adult Learning, 2023
Democracy is not only a system of government, but also an overarching way of living together. It is through the social structures we live in and the resulting social relations, behaviors, and norms emanating from those structures, that we learn how to live together, democratically or otherwise. Adult education can promote the learning of democracy…
Descriptors: Democracy, Social Structure, Civics, Citizenship Education
Gates, Trevor G.; Ross, Dyann; Bennett, Bindi – Adult Learning, 2023
Critical events in Leonard Matlovich's life depict a reluctant activist for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/gender diverse, and queer+ (LGBTQ+) equality. He served in the US military and subsequently came to personify the broad social challenges to the military's homophobic culture and recruitment practices. Matlovich's experience of a series…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Activism, Barriers, Social Bias
Carpenter, Rob E. – Adult Learning, 2022
This study examined my experience as a doctoral student following the death of my son. The focus of this research is on the interaction of paternal grief and adult learning in the context of higher education. The central emphasis seeks to offer existential bearing to the interplay between the narrative identities of adult learner and paternal…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Doctoral Students, Death, Sons
Enhancing Leadership Training through an Experiential Approach: An Online Model for the 21st Century
Samuel, Anita; Durning, Steven J. – Adult Learning, 2022
Billions of dollars are spent annually on leadership training and development courses. Unfortunately, this training, both at organizational and university levels, does not appear to consistently result in significant adult learning or better organizational performance. These programs tend to focus on the theories of leadership within closed…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Experiential Learning, Practicums, Adult Learning
Cummins, Phyllis A.; Harrington, A. Katherine; Yamashita, Takashi – Adult Learning, 2022
Access to lifelong learning opportunities has long been discussed in terms of the economic benefits conferred by access to and engagement in further education by members of the labor force, particularly within the global knowledge economy. However, equitable access to lifelong education opportunities, particularly for low-skilled adults in the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Xie, Jianling; Xu, Jianzhong; Wei, Tianlan; Gallo, Katarzyna; Giles, Mary Everett; Zhan, Yan; Zeng, Yan; Huang, Xiang; Liu, Xia – Adult Learning, 2022
This exploratory qualitative case study investigates how graduate students in education experience, attribute, and combat academic boredom. Three areas of concern are addressed: (a) the contributing factors to boredom, (b) how attributional style (internal vs. external) relates to coping with boredom, and (c) the differences between combating…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Education Majors, Psychological Patterns, Learner Engagement
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