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Carter, Patricia L.; Nicolaides, Aliki – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This update to Mezirow's Transformative Learning theory seeks to advance Mälkki's enhancement to the emotional dimension in phase one--the disorienting dilemma--by proposing the need for a complete grief process (as theorized by Kübler-Ross), to support movement from Mälkki's conceptualization of "edge-emotions" to a "comfort…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Psychological Patterns, Learning Processes, Barriers
Sim, Eunbi; Nicolaides, Aliki; Bierema, Laura L. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Interlocking systems of oppression are embedded and embodied in the world. Utilizing intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1989; 1991) as a framework and perspective to interrogate oppressive systems, intersectional research (IR) has been produced across adult education (AE) journals. IR articles published in AE journals were reviewed using diffractive…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Research, Intersectionality, Systems Approach
Melacarne, Claudio; Nicolaides, Aliki – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This paper uses the constructs of capacity and competencies to explore how transversal and vertical skills are becoming more central than in the past for adult educators and higher educational design teaching. In this chapter, the authors will describe the context where this idea was created and describe two approaches that develop transversal and…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Competence, Skill Development, Adult Educators
Smith, L. Shakiyla; Nicolaides, Aliki – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
Intentional communities of inquiry can serve as important informal learning contexts for adults to grow their meaning-making complexity and capacity to manage ambiguity through and in relationship.
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Learning, Communities of Practice, Inquiry
Nicolaides, Aliki; Scully-Russ, Ellen – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
In this final chapter, we identify and elaborate the connections throughout the volume. We explore the philosophical underpinnings of the original model and analyze how the different lenses in these chapters lead the authors to new understandings of informal and incidental learning that trouble some of the features of the original model. We…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Incidental Learning, Models, Educational Philosophy
Nicolaides, Aliki; Marsick, Victoria J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2016
This chapter describes the changing nature of adult education theory and practice in the face of complex, disruptive change and explores theories that are suited to tectonic shifts in a period of what we describe as "liquid modernity" in the midst of complex sociocultural-economic-political change in a global environment.
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Global Education, Theory Practice Relationship