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Direct linkFedeli, Monica; Giampaolo, Mario; Coryell, Joellen E. – Adult Learning, 2013
This mixed-methods study illustrates the implementation of Malcolm Knowles's 1986 model of learning contracts in a current Italian University context. The study attempted to improve and adapt the tool to a master's degree course at the University of Padua. Three professors conducted the integrated course, making extensive efforts to share the aims…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance Contracts, Graduate Study, Graduate Students
Huang, Ying – Adult Learning, 2012
This literature review examines transitioning challenges faced by Chinese international students who pursue graduate degrees in the United States. Based on existing research on adulthood in U.S. and Chinese contexts and the features of Chinese graduate students, Chinese adults, and international students as learners in Western countries, the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Adult Learning, Literature Reviews
Sonstrom, Wendy Jean – Adult Learning, 2009
In this reflection, the author proposes that doctoral education is currently undergoing paradigm devolution. Her perspective is that of a doctoral student, specifically a full-time graduate student working towards a Ph.D. in adult education. This fall semester marks her last of coursework, and she finds herself searching to make meaning of the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Models, Doctoral Programs, Higher Education
Rapp, Doreen R.; Rhodes, Christy M.; Stokes, Carmeda – Adult Learning, 2006
For those aiming to enter the professoriate, graduate school is the initiation into the culture of academia. The doctoral program experience can be described as a socialization process that emphasizes the acquisition of knowledge about one's academic field or discipline, exposure to various research methodologies, and induction in academic…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Socialization, Doctoral Programs
Sonstrom, Wendy Jean – Adult Learning, 2006
In this article, the author compares the functions of a graduate adult education program and a greenhouse. A graduate adult education program is a place where, like in a greenhouse, exciting new hybrids can be developed--working with people outside the school of education, in different disciplines and beyond the university's walls, sharing what…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Adult Education, Horticulture, Figurative Language
Kerns, Lorna – Adult Learning, 2006
Adult students in higher education comprise a sizeable and expanding group of college and university students. While Sissel, Hansman, and Kasworm (2001) note the dearth of scholarship on adult learners in higher education, this same group of scholars and some of their colleagues have certainly produced a solid foundation of scholarly work on the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Adult Education, Lifelong Learning
