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Delgado, Antonio; McGill, Craig M.; Rocco, Tonette S. – Adult Learning, 2021
The instructor-student relationship may be understood as an educational helping relationship. Through interviews with 15 participants enrolled in masters or doctoral programs in education, this qualitative study explored graduate students' perceptions of educational helping instructor-student relationships over the entirety of their higher…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Helping Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Graduate Students
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Lee, Jung Min; Rogers, Aracelis; Young, William – Adult Learning, 2018
The purpose of this study was to identify selected characteristics of current Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) members in Florida and then compare the results between Florida and non-Florida institutes. This study was primarily quantitative and employed the Demographic and Behavioral Trends Survey (DBTS) with the addition of four…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Individual Characteristics, Adult Education, Retirement
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Storey, Valerie A.; Wang, Victor C. X. – Adult Learning, 2017
The Critical Friend is a powerful concept partly due to the inherent tension between a challenging critic and a trusting friend. Originally utilized in the PreK-12 sector in both England and the United States, the application of Critical Friends has expanded across a range of contexts. This article further adds to the Critical Friend literature…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Andragogy, Cognitive Ability, Trust (Psychology)