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Nick Mapletoft; Olga Charlotte Mapletoft; Tara Henderson – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2024
This research investigates the initial degree programme of a new Higher Education Provider (HEP) through a practitioner-based case study focusing on the experiences of senior leaders enrolled as mature degree apprentices. The qualitative study utilised an interpretivist and constructivist approach involving in-depth interviews and a focus group.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Adult Students, Apprenticeships
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Eleni Papaioannou – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
This paper describes the methodological design of a qualitative research strategy that followed the bricolage approach. The research, a qualitative case study, followed the empowerment journey of 12 adult learners in a second chance educational programme, aiming at recording the mechanisms through which the learners were empowered or disempowered.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Students, High School Equivalency Programs, Continuation Students
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Rittberger, Stephenie; Monczunski, Julia – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2020
After tracking barriers of adult education learners pursuing their GED®, the Career Learning Center of the Black Hills (CLCBH) found that high rates of poverty, homelessness, unemployment, and other trauma-related experiences led to an ongoing sense of helplessness and despair among many of our adult learners, in particular Native American…
Descriptors: Trauma, Labor Force Development, Adult Students, American Indian Students