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Advancing Adult Learning Using Andragogic Instructional Practices
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Livingston, Manuel; Cummings-Clay, Denise – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2023
Community-college professors possess knowledge in distinct disciplines and have varied experiences that they encompass in their college classrooms. Additionally, creating effective environments for teaching and learning require these assets from instructors to fulfill their curriculum needs. Teaching is a multidimensional and complex activity that…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Andragogy, Teaching Methods, Community Colleges
Using Innovative Online Pedagogy in Graduate Student Fieldwork
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Roback, Karin L. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2021
Higher education has undergone a radical transformation through the use of technology, including the offering of online courses and degrees. However, programs with fieldwork-based components that require students to demonstrate application of adult learning principles by performing specific skills in clinical settings face unique challenges. This…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Graduate Students, Online Courses, Field Experience Programs
Adult Education at Biological Field Stations: Building Capacity for Science Learning
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Zarestky, Jill; Vilen, Lauren; Short, Rachel A.; Struminger, Rhonda; Michelle Lawing, A. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2022
An understanding of science concepts is important for living in modern society. Supporting adults' science learning can be particularly challenging because most adults no longer attend formal educational institutions where access and opportunities are facilitated by teachers and school-sponsored programs. Biological field stations (BFSs) are a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Science Education, Science Teaching Centers, Scientific Literacy
Preparing Teachers to Work with English Learners: Exploring the Potential for Transformative Learning in an Online English as a Second Language for Educators Course
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Dewing, Stephanie E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The number of English language learners (ELLs) in the United States school system is growing rapidly. Much of the responsibility for teaching ELLs lies with regular classroom teachers. However, little training is being provided to help them. From a sociocultural perspective and drawing on constructive-developmental theories of adult learning and…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Transformative Learning, Online Courses, English (Second Language)
Work-Based Learning in Canada and the United Kingdom: A Framework for Understanding Knowledge Transfer for Workers with Low Skills and Higher Skills
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Taylor, Maurice; Evans, Karen; Pinsent-Johnson, Christine – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate how knowledge of different kinds is put to work in workplace education programmes for adults with low skills and adults with higher skills. A novel framework, which has moved beyond narrow conceptions of "transfer" to concentrate on different forms of knowledge and the ways these are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Literacy, Transfer of Training, Knowledge Level
57th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (Austin, Texas, November 28-December 1, 2007)
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Kim, Youb, Ed.; Risko, Victoria J., Ed.; Compton, Donald L., Ed.; Dickinson, David K., Ed.; Hundley, Melanie K., Ed.; Jimenez, Robert T., Ed.; Leander, Kevin M., Ed.; Rowe, Deborah Wells, Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2008
This publication offers the 57th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (NRC). This Yearbook begins with a preface and presents profiles of two awardees, John E. McEneaney and Scott G. Paris. Included in this Yearbook are the following papers: (1) The Education of African-American Students: Voicing the Debates, Controversies, and Solutions…
Descriptors: African American Students, Recreational Reading, Reading Ability, Scholarship