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Mark Prendergast; Annette Forster; Niamh O'Meara; Kathy O'Sullivan; Fiona Faulkner – Irish Educational Studies, 2025
Despite the clear and obvious need for adults to be proficient in numeracy, international studies suggest that many continue to struggle in this area. In Ireland, one of the main challenges continues to be the availability of effective adult numeracy education. This is a diverse sector, and little is known about the varied provision of adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Numeracy, Faculty Development, Adult Educators
Kapil Dev Regmi – Studies in Continuing Education, 2024
Programme planning models found in the current body of literature provide some practical strategies for developing effective adult education programmes, but how political and economic systems of a country shape the nature and scope of planning is missing. This paper aims to fill this theoretical void by bringing political economy perspective into…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Politics of Education, Program Development, Economic Factors
Bekalu Tadesse Moges; Yalalem Assefa; Shouket Ahmad Tilwani; Samuel Zinabu Desta; Mohd Asif Shah – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2024
In this age of information exchange, where nations' multiculturalism is prominent, developing a positive attitude towards local people's knowledge and wisdom regardless of gender, faith, age, and other social class is prominent. This is because countries need to have a diverse population that embraces diverse indigenous knowledge systems and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Inclusion, Indigenous Knowledge
Edouard, Gusman – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2022
Adult students have different backgrounds, knowledge, experiences, abilities, interests, and learning needs. Hence, teaching all learners the same way is not the most effective. Individual differences should be considered. Exposing a whole class to one set of content, exercises, and assessment activities is unrealistic. In other words, to learn…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Environment
Hernandez, Ruzanna – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2021
Technology has become a way of life since March 2020 and the statewide shutdowns after the COVID-19 pandemic. People who had gotten by without ever having to use the internet, much less turn on a computer, had to learn quickly to change and adapt. The administrative team of Fontana Adult School realized the need to help students with basic digital…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Workshops, Program Development, Adult Students
Douai Mohammed Amine; Saidi Ayoub; Qafas Ahlam – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2025
This article presents a quasi-experimental study evaluating Morocco's Agency for Adult Education "Literacy for Empowerment" program, using propensity score matching to compare data from participants and nonparticipants. Framed within a theory supporting an all-inclusive concept of literacy, the study was guided by two main questions, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Literacy Education
Robertson, Jane; Heckroodt, Steyn – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2022
This account of practice discusses how we have implemented an emerging action learning framework in the form of guiding questions that are relevant to key stakeholders: the client organisation (sponsoring organisation), the management development company, the participants and the Learning Process Facilitator (LPF) to aid participants in their…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Transformative Learning, Management Development, Learning Processes
Roumell, Elizabeth A.; Todoran, Corina; Salajan, Florin D. – Adult Literacy Education, 2020
Recent Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act legislation in the United States has initiated increasingly complex and multi-tiered systems for program implementation in the adult learning, career training, and workforce development sectors. The paper presents a conceptual framework to assist in understanding capacity building for implementation…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Labor Force Development, Capacity Building, Guidelines
Nikolaos, Nikitidis – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2020
It is commonplace that the knowledge gained after some time needs enrichment and actualization. Educational actions that are addressed to adults are essential. The first meeting in adult education is crucial for the educational process. It must, therefore, be planned carefully. The aim of this study is to find the elements that make the first…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Learning Processes, Efficiency
Goos, Merrilyn; Prendergast, Mark; O'Meara, Niamh; O'Sullivan, Kathy – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
This paper revisits and reanalyses data from a study carried out in the further education and training sector in the Republic of Ireland to investigate (1) how adults access and participate in numeracy courses and (2) how adult numeracy provision might support active citizenship. We analysed 45 interviews with adult education providers, adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Adult Education, Numeracy
Gallup, Amber – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2020
Apprenticeship is an internationally recognized model of learning receiving increased attention as it evolves to meet the needs of modern workers, employers, and the labor market. As apprenticeship expands, and new industries explore the model, adult educators are being asked to help develop programs and pathways, write curriculum, serve as…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Apprenticeships, Program Development, Adult Education
Baldwin, Cheryl K.; Magnuson, Doug – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2022
In this qualitative interpretivist study, we investigated the types of interactions and negotiations that supported or constrained adult education program planners' capacity to act, conceptualized as dignity. Data were drawn from interviews with 14 program planners working in collaborative partnerships in U.S. underperforming urban schools.…
Descriptors: Program Development, Adult Education, Capacity Building, Human Dignity
Balogová, Beáta; Gazdová, Veronika Kmetóny – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2019
Introduction: The authors of this paper base their research on the following assumption: the development of both geragogic education (older adult education) and profession is conditioned by the existence of a study program of geragogy provided by departments of geragogy created at universities (as public institutions of higher education). The fact…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Adult Education, Educational Gerontology
Macdonald, Sheila; Watson, Jodi – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
This article explores a cross-disciplinary collaboration within English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision for adults born outside the United Kingdom (UK). By foregrounding collaborative practice between a language practitioner and an artist, we offer a practical experience of working beyond and besides language which offers both an…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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