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Findings from a Teacher Learning Community: How Teachers Use Formative Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning
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Martha Parinussa Flynn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative research examined Adult Education teachers' understanding of the role of formative assessment that will improve their instruction, and the strategies and techniques teaching English as a second Language. The researcher employed a Teacher Learning Community (TLC) model that focused on conversations involving all participants and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Knowledge Level, Formative Evaluation
Tracing the Link between Transformative Education and Social Action through Stories of Change
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den Heyer, Molly; Smith, Eric; Irving, Catherine – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
The following article describes how one organization, the Coady International Institute, met multiple monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning objectives while still staying true to its roots in transformative adult education. The Learning from Stories of Change (LSC) methodology brought together stories-based techniques with aspects of the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Transformative Learning, Social Change, Adult Education
A Contested Profession: Employability, Performativity and Professionalism in Irish Further Education
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Grummell, Bernie; Murray, Michael J. – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2015
Further education typically represents the vocational, technical and practice-based forms of education, but this is now being repositioned in a neo-liberal era that is driving a performance-based and market-orientated vision of education in the Republic of Ireland and elsewhere. The implacable drive of neo-liberal economics in everyday practice is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Employment Potential, Neoliberalism
Bringing the Adult Learning Experience of Successful Weight Loss Maintenance into Focus: A Narrative Analysis with Implications for Educators and Clinicians
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Stametz, Rebecca A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In light of the many social, medical, and political viewpoints on obesity, little is known of the weight loss maintenance experience and the impact on learning processes and outcomes among adults. The purpose of this study was two-fold: a) to explore the experience and meaning-making processes of individuals who have maintained a weight loss and…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Maintenance, Learning Processes, Adult Learning
Authenticity, Autonomy, and Authority: Feminist Jewish Learning among Post-Soviet Women
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Grant, Lisa D. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2008
This articles explores how a group of women in the Former Soviet Union grapple with questions of Jewish identity and Jewish "authenticity" as they participate in adult Jewish learning program that employs methods of feminist pedagogy and transformative learning. The study reflects on areas of dissonance between the transformational…
Descriptors: Feminism, Jews, Females, Transformative Learning
Adult Learning in Cohort Groups. Practice Application Brief No. 24.
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Imel, Susan – 2002
A form of group learning, cohorts, has become increasingly attractive to administrators, instructors, and participants in adult education. Basic academic skills cohort learning supports three types of knowing: instrumental, socializing, and self-authoring; whereas, in higher and adult education cohort learning, the development of critical…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Adult Development, Adult Education