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Zoe Mabbs; Holly Henderson – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
This short article gives an account of introducing the tradition of communal singing to Fircroft College of Adult Education in Birmingham, UK. Fircroft is an adult residential college and has its roots in the Danish folk high school movement. Communal singing is a strong tradition of this movement, but the practice has not been used in Fircroft…
Descriptors: Singing, Educational Practices, Adult Students, College Students
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Papadopoulos, Dimitrios – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2023
Individualising processes often are prescribed as all-embracing solutions in adult education policies worldwide. Nevertheless, re-adaptation of educational frameworks to individual students' needs may result in tensions for involved agents due to complexities of such initiatives. This literature review examines individualising processes in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Research, Individualized Programs, Educational Policy
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Vural, Kübra; Konakli, Tugba – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine teachers' social justice-based practices, the outcomes of those practices, the leadership roles revealed in the process, and the problems experienced. The sample of the study consisted of 13 teachers who were reached through the snowball sampling method. 10 middle school and 3 primary school teachers working…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Practices, Leadership Role, Middle School Teachers
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Velarde, Elizabeth – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted learning and services across communities, the Upgrade program in San Antonio, Texas, was able to continue serving adult learners through preestablished service delivery methods. A case management approach to advising set the foundation for the program to build upon established relationships with students to help…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Caseworker Approach, Pandemics
Wu, Zunmin – ECNU Review of Education, 2021
Purpose: This study systematically reviews the China's progress in lifelong education (LLE) policies, theories, and practices in the 40 years since its reform and opening-up and provides several guidelines for developing LLE going forward. Design/Approach/Methods: This study analyzes the characteristics of LLE in China through a review of its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Prins, Esther; Clymer, Carol; Foreman, Sheri Suarez; Loa, Martin; Needle, Mark; Raymond, Becky; Toso, Blaire Willson; Ziskind, Alex – Grantee Submission, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine how adult education providers in Chicago, Houston, and Miami are designing and implementing career pathways (CP) programming, especially for adults who are immigrants or have barriers to employment and education. The researcher-practitioner partnership included the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Career Development, Immigrants
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Tulu, Abraham – Educational Research and Reviews, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the practices and challenges of school-based teachers' continuous professional development implementation in secondary schools of Hawassa City Administration. The study employed a descriptive survey design with both quantitative and qualitative method. The sampling technique used in the study was…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education, Secondary School Teachers
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2015
The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) initiated a series of surveys designed to capture member institutional practice snapshots in 60 seconds or less. The December 2014 "AACRAO 60 Second Survey" asked respondents to indicate their institutions' credit for prior learning practices (CPL). To…
Descriptors: College Credits, Prior Learning, Surveys, Adult Learning
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Sedova, Klara – Teacher Development, 2017
This article draws on data from an action research project carried out in a lower secondary school environment in the Czech Republic. The project involved the implementation of a teacher professional development programme aimed at transforming teacher-student communication and reinforcing opportunities for student participation in classroom…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Teacher Behavior, Behavior Change, Classroom Communication
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Hanemann, Ulrike – International Review of Education, 2015
In a fast-changing and highly inequitable world, lifelong learning is becoming increasingly important, not only as a key organising principle for all forms of education and learning but also as an absolute necessity for everyone. It is particularly important for disadvantaged individuals and groups who have been excluded from or failed to acquire…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Literacy, Adult Learning, Annual Reports
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Blaszczak, Iwona – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
Nowadays, adult education and lifelong learning constitutes one of the most significant factors influencing economic growth and social development. Definitions such as "knowledge society" and "knowledge-based economy" exist in a great number of the Polish and European Union papers and documents and they are not only the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Andragogy, Foreign Countries
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Weinberger, JoAnn – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2015
St. Clair (EJ1072357) provides a summary and lays out some of the important issues inherent in the broad strategies articulated in "Making Skills Everyone's Business: A Call to Transform Adult Learning in the United States" (MSEB) (United States Department of Education [USDoE], 2015) (see ED558793). In this commentary, JoAnn Weinberger…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Educational Change, Educational Strategies
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Carlyon, Tracey – Professional Development in Education, 2015
Teacher transition between year levels is common practice in many primary schools in New Zealand; however, it is not always perceived as an opportunity for teachers' continuing professional development (CPD). This article reports on a case study that explored four primary school teachers' experiences of transition between year levels. The teachers…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Elementary School Teachers, School Culture, Teaching Experience
Durlak, Joseph – US Department of Health and Human Services, 2013
Sometimes, program evaluations report no difference in outcomes between persons given a program and those not given the program. Is this because the program does not work, or because it was poorly implemented? Achieving high quality program implementation is critical to achieving anticipated outcomes, and researchers have made considerable…
Descriptors: Evidence, Program Implementation, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
Yang, Jin, Ed.; Schneller, Chripa, Ed.; Roche, Stephen, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
There is no doubt that universities have a vital role to play in promoting lifelong learning. This publication presents possible ways of expanding and transforming higher education to facilitate lifelong learning in different socio-economic contexts. Nine articles address the various dimensions of the role of higher education in promoting lifelong…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Role of Education, Lifelong Learning, Educational Policy
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