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Otaka, Kendo – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This article aims to build a frame of reference to reconsider the meaning of knowledge in line with collective value formation and to regain lost popular knowledge in comparison with paternalistic or scientific knowledge. Following a brief introduction of Japanese social education and a critical/creative review of Freire's concept of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Epistemology, Social Studies, Citizenship Education
Sun, Qi; Kang, Haijun – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
Adult education, lifelong education, and lifelong learning have been playing critical roles in responding to contemporary, economic, political, social, and cultural challenges in many parts of the world. This article looks at the new vistas of adult and lifelong education/learning from Eastern perspectives, which highlights the state of adult and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning, Social Change
Bierema, Laura L. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
The purpose of the chapter is to introduce the T-shaped professional and advance it as an organizing rubric for curriculum development in higher education as a strategy to enhance employability. The chapter explores the T-shaped professional by investigating its history, considering the context creating demand for T-shaped people, and outlining…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Educational Strategies
Delleville, Valerie A. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This chapter will define and illustrate the sustainable cycle of Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) benefits for both employees and employers in the U.S. workforce. Employer and student benefits of PLA will be reviewed, and program completion outcomes will be examined.
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Labor Force, Evaluation Methods, Employers
Robbins, Stacey; Hoggan, Chad – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This chapter draws on research in organizational (workplace) learning to provide guidelines for educators to effectively design, facilitate, and evaluate collaborative learning experiences.
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Workplace Learning
Terzaroli, Carlo – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This chapter sets out to illustrate the relationship between the constructs of employability and entrepreneurship. In particular, the latter is investigated as a specific focus for the development of entrepreneurial skills linked to innovation. In this connection, some perspectives for educational action are illustrated through the presentation of…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Innovation
Boffo, Vanna – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This chapter sets out to introduce some theoretical reflections on the employability construct in adult and higher education. At the same time, it illustrates some perspectives for educational action through the presentation of career service activities aimed at the development of transversal skills.
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Adult Education, Higher Education, Job Skills
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
Fabbri, Loretta; Romano, Alessandra – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
The article analyzes the learning paths, organizational devices, and system actions taken within the Teaching & Learning Center research and training facility at the University of Siena.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Organizational Culture, Employment Potential, Teacher Centers
Frison, Daniela; Tino, Concetta – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This chapter focuses on work-related learning in higher education and the key principles to consider for the design of work-related assignments in partnership with business.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Job Skills, School Business Relationship, Experiential Learning
Davis, Brittany; Fedeli, Monica; Coryell, Joellen E. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
The authors examine current literature and practice focusing on employability of doctoral students, discuss a case study involving Italian and U.S. students presenting research at an international graduate student research conference, and discuss how that experience may impact student learning, development, and employability after completing their…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Employment Qualifications, Student Development
Fedeli, Monica; Vardanega, Tullio – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This chapter presents how the method of capstone project in higher education can promote employability. Three primary forces guide the development of the capstone project at the University of Padova: employability, active learning, and responsibility in teaching and learning.
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Employment Qualifications, Job Skills
Devecchi, Cristina – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
Providing doctoral students with the employability skills they needs is a developing area rich with a variety of training opportunities. This contribution argues that including students as co-researchers through a process of "learning by doing" enables them to learn and implement new skills in a safe but risk-taking environment.
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Transfer of Training, Research Skills, Job Skills
Bien-Gund, Susannah; Elrowmeim, Somia – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
In this chapter, the former and current directors of adult education at the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) discuss strategies from their shared process of fostering community, student leadership, and empowerment in AAANY's community-based literacy program. Amid the challenges for learners and the program connected to the 2016…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Adult Education, Student Leadership, Student Empowerment
Merriweather, Lisa R. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This chapter discusses and unpacks the ways in which gendered racism impacts African American female academics. An understanding of gendered racist realism exposes dominant racist ideologies in the academy, in general. Ontological beingness, specifically the "ontological we," affords African American women the opportunity to confront and…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Racial Bias, African American Teachers, Women Faculty