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Moore, Donald E., Jr. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
This chapter proposes approaches for assessing learners and evaluating courses and curriculum that could be used by directors of health professions education (HPE) programs to determine the effectiveness and impact of their programs.
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Evaluation, Health Education
Beard, Colin – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
This chapter considers whether John Dewey's writings about experiential education are relevant to modern-day conceptions of adult experiential learning. It highlights how some of the threads of Dewey's thinking are still pertinent, but much more complex.
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Experiential Learning, Adult Learning, Adult Education
Clover, Darlene E.; Etmanski, Catherine; Reimer, Rachel – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2017
This chapter explores the potential of feminist leadership to encourage more participatory ways of engaging and learning in this deeply troubled world. Feminist leadership includes but is not limited to collaborative leadership. Adult learning is inherent to feminist leadership insofar as leaders must strategize according to the contexts in which…
Descriptors: Feminism, Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making, Cooperation
Conceição, Simone C. O. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2016
This chapter addresses the transitions and changes occurring because of technological innovation, how these changes are affecting the workplace, and the skills needed to thrive today. It also presents generational characteristics of adult learners and strategies for adult educators and higher education institutions for effectively dealing with…
Descriptors: Global Education, Technological Advancement, Technological Literacy, Competition
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
Larrotta, Clarena; Moon, Ji Yoon Christine – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2016
This chapter provides examples of transitions that learners face connected to their participation in adult education and English literacy instruction. It describes their efforts to attain relevant language expression skills.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Learning, English Language Learners
Pappas, James P.; Jerman, Jerry – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
This chapter considers many of the major directions, issues, and themes that will play an important part in the future of coaching adult populations.
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Educational Trends, Educational Practices, Trend Analysis
Wax, Dorothy M.; Wertheim, Judith – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
This chapter focuses on the use of coaching for adult learners, the specific characteristics adults bring to the learning environment, and strategies for dealing with the obstacles adult learners may face.
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Adult Development, Adult Education, Helping Relationship
Brigham, Susan M.; Baillie Abidi, Catherine; Tastsoglou, Evangelia; Lange, Elizabeth – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
Like the immigrant clients they serve, service providers have been overlooked in adult education literature, yet their roles are crucial for addressing the serious concerns of refugees and refugee claimants who flee their home countries hoping to find safe refuge in another country.
Descriptors: Immigrants, Adult Education, Refugees, Adult Learning
Contextual Influences on Financial Behavior: A Proposed Model for Adult Financial Literacy Education
Way, Wendy L. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter presents an ecological model that highlights the importance of considering multiple contextual influences on behavior as well as other factors that may impact learning when designing research and practice aimed at enhancing financial capability.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Money Management, Adult Learning, Educational Practices
Rose, Amy – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
The "Hamburg Declaration" (UNESCO, 1997) is perhaps most quixotic and prescient in laying out the changing world of work as envisioned in 1997. It includes particular commitments to promote the rights to work and to work-related adult learning, to increase access to work-related adult learning for different target groups, and to…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Adult Learning, Workplace Literacy, Adult Education
Clover, Darlene E.; Hill, Robert – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
The environment is now a common theme in adult education. However, conversations that swirled around the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in June 2012 suggested major environmental challenges persist, demanding that education, learning, advocacy and activism be augmented to ensure the survival of the planet. In adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Sustainable Development, Ecology, Research
Stromquist, Nelly P. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
This chapter considers Theme 4 of the "Hamburg Declaration": Adult learning, gender equality and equity, and the empowerment of women. It has a fourfold purpose. It begins with a review of the balance of progress to date in conceptualizing gender. Second, it examines the objectives of CONFINTEA V and VI from a gender perspective. Third,…
Descriptors: Females, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Empowerment
Welton, Michael – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
Theme 1 of the "Hamburg Declaration on Adult Learning" boldly proclaimed that active citizenship and full participation of all citizens was the necessary foundation for "the creation of a learning society committed to social justice and general well-being" (UNESCO, 1997, p. 4). The "Declaration" advocated that future…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Well Being, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning
Tuckett, Alan – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
At the time of the fifth UNESCO international conference on adult education (CONFINTEA V) in Hamburg in 1997, it seemed that a resilient alliance of governments and civil society organizations had been created. This alliance would have the commitment and cooperation needed to pursue the ambitious aspirations captured in the 10 themes of the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Correctional Institutions, International Cooperation