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Coss, Sarah – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2022
This article explores the experiences of a group of women who having achieved success in education and returned to the adult learning environment again. A creative methodological approach allows the women to describe in their own words experiences of educational success and motivations to return to learning. Discussion points predominantly focus…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Females, Older Adults
Baston, Michael; Lazda, Mara – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2022
While there is overwhelming evidence of the positive impact of culturally responsive and equitable practices for adult learners and students of color, there is a remaining lack of infrastructural and institutional support for culturally sustaining work. Much anti-racist work has relied on individual dedication, grant-specific funding, and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Community Colleges, Inclusion
Munoz, Susana M.; Anaya, Reyna M. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2022
As higher education institutions across Colorado continue to address the impact of COVID19 on enrollment and identify practices that promote student success and institutional sustainability, many are focusing their attention on the enrollment of adult learners. The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) has actively engaged in building…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Readiness, Equal Education, Adult Learning
Christopher Zegar – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Teacher professional learning communities (PLCs) are a valuable tool that increase teacher collaboration to enhance student learning. These adult learning environments are dynamic in that they are places where adults are able to work within a community of practice (CoP) to address work-related challenges and lend support in semi-structured…
Descriptors: Reflection, Scripts, Independent Study, Communities of Practice
Jamie Leigh Neibling – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Instructional coaching is a widely accepted form of job-embedded professional development in schools across the United States. The problem is that many new instructional coaches have limited experience facilitating professional growth or working with adult learners. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perceptions coaches…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Novices, Professional Development, Attitudes
Joshua Pack – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Biblical illiteracy seems an increasingly significant problem in the Church today, and the problems which arise as a result of the issue have an impact on both the theology of the Church and the way the people of God live out that theology. In a culture which pushes against the biblical narrative, it is as important as ever to instill within the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Churches, Biblical Literature, Beliefs
Po, Cicy – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study is to investigate how Asian women educational leaders perceive their instructional leadership and the ways in which their racialized and gendered experiences impact their practices. This qualitative case study is anchored by the sympathetic instructional leadership framework that includes holding high expectations in a…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Women Administrators, Administrator Attitudes, Instructional Leadership
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Perry, Shannon A. B. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2023
This literature review explores how various challenges and possibilities of enacting collaborative inquiry (CI) in online contexts intersect with this holistic action research method's aims of transforming participant being, knowing, and doing. This article asks how digital tools and virtual platforms enable and constrain the democratic…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Inquiry, Electronic Learning, Transformative Learning
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Agyekum, Boadi – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Access to higher education is often limited to adults because of their location. This is particularly challenging for adults who live in rural communities and small towns and can lead to unmet expectations. While policy makers have long recognised the potential impact of lifelong education for adults, the educational needs of adults have received…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Rural Areas, Access to Education
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Kristen Merrill O’Brien; Margaret P. Weiss; Pamela H. Baker – Journal of Special Education Preparation, 2023
After more than 20 years of a critical shortage in special education teachers, this mid-Atlantic state expedited program development for undergraduate-level teacher preparation programs. To meet the accelerated timeline, one program at a large public university used its graduate-level coursework as a model for the undergraduate level program.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Teacher Shortage, Adult Learning, Special Education Teachers
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Annalisa L. Raymer – Commission for International Adult Education, 2023
Digital storytelling (DST) dovetails well with facilitative teaching and is frequently lauded as an avenue to positive outcomes within and outside of educational institutions. Ascribed results include empowering marginalized voices, building community and fostering engagement, deepening cultural identity and understanding, engendering empathy, and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Story Telling, Educational Technology, Educational Philosophy
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Federighi, Paolo – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
Consent in the definition of adult education is only apparent and circumscribed. Substantial differences survive, fueled by various national ideologies, cultures and policies. The plurality of angles determines a multiplicity of research approaches. Transformative research is the typical model of adult education research and is analysed in its…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Adult Learning, Adult Education, Educational Research
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Smith, L. Shakiyla; Nicolaides, Aliki – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
Intentional communities of inquiry can serve as important informal learning contexts for adults to grow their meaning-making complexity and capacity to manage ambiguity through and in relationship.
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Learning, Communities of Practice, Inquiry
Kaitlyn Sarah Leahy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Using the Compassionate Music Teaching (CMT) framework as a lens, in this study I explored the ways that teachers of adults learning recreationally in music lessons may align their teaching approaches to learners' adult-specific needs. Adult education scholars have accentuated the need for facilitators of adult learning to consider adult learners'…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Music Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Suzanne L. Shatila – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
Increasingly, nontraditional students (over age 25, employed, parenting) are enrolling in universities offering online options. Online programs appeal to those needing flexible educational options, yet attrition remains high for adult learners and students enrolled in online education. Building on previous research, this study examines…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Electronic Learning, Nontraditional Students, Geographic Location
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