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Ngozwana, Nomazulu – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
The purpose of this paper is to describe how and where Lesotho citizens have learned about democracy, their civic life and citizenship. The paper draws from a larger PhD study that was conducted in 2013 that focused on how Basotho people understand the concepts of citizenship and democracy with implications for civic education in Lesotho. This…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship Education, Adult Education, Informal Education
Thomas, Eryn – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
This article examines the effects of synthesising existing theoretical approaches to understanding the effects of adult learning. The paper focuses on aspects of the findings of a small Australian research project that explored the significance of everyday learning in people's lives. One key part of the research involved examining and synthesising…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Experience
van der Meij, Marjoleine G.; Kupper, Frank; Beers, Pieter J.; Broerse, Jacqueline E. W. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
E-learning and storytelling approaches can support informal vicarious learning within geographically widely distributed multi-stakeholder collaboration networks. This case study evaluates hybrid e-learning and video-storytelling approach "TransLearning" by investigation into how its storytelling e-tool supported informal vicarious…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Electronic Learning, Video Technology, Story Telling
Spiteri, Damian – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
This study analyses what motivates older people to attend "day centres" in Malta and what they believe that they derive from young people who carry out their placements at these day "centres" These young people, who are aged 16-17, attend a vocational college in Malta and are studying health and social care. The study is based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Motivation, Older Adults, Day Programs
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Watkins, Karen E.; Marsick, Victoria J. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1992
Informal and incidental learning are based on learning from experience, embedded in organizational context, focused on action, governed by nonroutine conditions, concerned with tacit dimensions, delimited by the nature of the task, and enhanced by proactivity, critical reflection, and creativity. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Theories, Experiential Learning, Incidental Learning
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Merriam, Sharan B.; Clark, M. Carolyn – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1993
A survey of 405 adults and interviews with 19 showed the majority of learning experiences were informal. For learning to be significant, it must personally affect the learner by expanding skills or causing a transformation, and it must be subjectively valued by the learner. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Change Agents, Educational Attitudes
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Kenny, Mary; Brown, Marie; Ralph, Sue – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2000
Draws parallels between the processes outlined in a British government green paper and the processes of experiential learning and community development in a preparation program for community and youth workers. The value of using experience as a basis for learning and the importance of reflection to turn experience into learning were highlighted.…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Higher Education