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Alfieri, Ezequiel; Lázaro, Fernando; Santana, Fernando – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
This article describes and theorizes the development and pedagogical practices of alternative high school programs for adult workers in cooperatively run factories in Argentina.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, High Schools, Nontraditional Education
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Fowler, Catherine H.; Getzel, Elizabeth Evans; Lombardi, Allison – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
This chapter examines the changes in supports and services from secondary to postsecondary for students with disabilities. It recommends ways organizations, practitioners, and students must coordinate and collaborate to affect the environment and increase student success in postsecondary education.
Descriptors: Disabilities, Transitional Programs, Secondary School Students, Cooperation
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Patterson, Margaret Becker – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
This chapter considers next steps of young adults with disabilities after initial education--for those who complete high school and those leaving high school early.
Descriptors: Young Adults, Disabilities, High School Graduates, Dropouts
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Test, David W.; Clark, Kelly A.; Rusher, Dana E. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
This chapter describes evidence-based predictors and practices of postschool success for students with disabilities. Examples for implementation and implications for adult education practitioners as they design instruction and programming for individuals with disabilities are provided.
Descriptors: Disabilities, Evidence Based Practice, Success, Adult Education
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Bishop, Kathy; Weigler, Will; Lloyd, Tracey; Beare, David – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2017
Playbuilding is one response to the search for creative ways to approach leadership and learning. Drawing upon their practical experiences within community-based, secondary school, and university settings, the authors share stories and strategies for fostering collaborative leadership through playbuilding.
Descriptors: Leadership Training, School Community Relationship, Secondary Schools, Higher Education
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Schwartz, Joni – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter is based on the findings of an ethnographic study of an urban General Education Development (GED®) program and suggests that, for some marginalized African American and other young men of color, adult education programs are counter-spaces (Yosso, Ceja, Smith, & Solorzano, [Yosso, T., 2009]) of spatial justice in opposition to…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Urban Education, General Education, High School Equivalency Programs