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Terenko, Olena – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2019
Types of non-formal adult education in the USA and Canada are singled out. Non-formal adult education in the United States and Canada is subdivided into basic adult education, education for professional development, education for personal development, specialized adult education, education for the development of civil society (constituents of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonformal Education, Adult Education, Professional Development
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Charikova, Irina; Zhadanov, Victor – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2017
The relevance of the problem under study is conditioned by the socially important need of the contemporary university education to train highly qualified personnel in all directions of activity, to form and develop a professional person of a high intellectual, moral and spiritual culture. The objective of the paper consists in giving theoretical…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Training Methods
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Rodríguez, Reyna del Carmen Martínez; Corona, Lilia Benítez – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This paper presents partial results of the analysis of the didactic implementation of transverse subjects focused on the human development into the Competency-Based Education Model (CBEM) of the Polytechnic Universities' subsystem. A descriptive study was designed through a questionnaire to identify strengths and weaknesses in the teaching of…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Moshenets, Olena – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2019
The article analyzes the goals, objectives and content of professional training for international communication specialists in the UK universities. It is found that professional training of international communication specialists aims to prepare a competent and competitive expert under the rapidly changing requirements of British society and the…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Specialists, Interdisciplinary Approach, Competency Based Education
Le, Cecilia; Wolfe, Rebecca E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
A striking convergence of research, documentation, commentary, and policy in the past five years strongly suggests that an almost exclusive focus on academic knowledge and skills is an incomplete solution. Additional behaviors, skills, and mindsets--sometimes called metacognitive skills or 21st-century skills--are just as necessary for academic…
Descriptors: Self Management, Metacognition, Youth Opportunities, Youth Programs