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Reddy, Mina – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines the perceptions of identity of a category of students that has rarely been studied in the context of higher education. These are adults who have participated in GED preparation or English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses in Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs. A college education is increasingly necessary for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Higher Education, Self Concept, Identification
Tinkler, Barri; Tinkler, Alan – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2013
In response to the increasing diversity in American public schools and concerns over inequities in opportunity and achievement, many teacher education programs are infusing multicultural topics and coursework into their programs (Akiba, 2011; Hollins & Guzman, 2005). While some programs utilize what O'Grady (2000) called the Human Relations…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Taylor, Ann; Puchner, Laurel D.; Powell, Margaret B.; Harris, Valorie; Marshall, Rick – Educational Action Research, 2012
Three teacher educators worked at a US community college with two adult education staff on a grant-supported project bridging high school dropouts from adult education to employment. The teacher educators' apparently simple task of facilitating grant participants' engagement with action research became confusingly challenging. The consultants…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Action Research, Dropouts, Adult Education