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Rozvadská, Katarina – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2023
This is a study of the process of biographical learning and how it can be observed in narration. There have not yet been empirical studies focused explicitly on the learning aspects of biographical learning, as scholars have focused more on the biographical part of the concept -- more on the question of what is learned than of how it is learned.…
Descriptors: Biographies, Personal Narratives, Learning Processes, College Students
Paufler, Noelle A. – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2023
While doctoral leadership programs have widely adopted Improvement Science (IS) as a signature pedagogy, few studies have examined how to best equip doctoral students with the knowledge and research skills they need to utilize IS in practice. More specifically, research is needed to determine the most effective and meaningful pedagogy for…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, College Faculty, Program Development, Statistical Analysis
Emily K. Suh – Adult Literacy Education, 2023
Adult English language instruction is the fastest growing segment of U.S. adult basic education population. Supporting adult emergent multilingual students through English as a Second Language or English for Speakers of Other Languages classes, referred to here as ES(O)L, and developmental literacy programs presents a "wicked problem"…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Preparation, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Manca, Stefania; Raffaghelli, Juliana Elisa – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Holocaust memory and learning processes have become increasingly mediatised as a result of rapid technological advances. There is, however, little information available regarding how people learn about this topic informally through social media. Objectives: This paper explores how adult learners develop their learning ecologies by…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Social Media, Learning
Kelle Parsons; Jessica Mason; Rachel Blume; Mark Hatcher; Jasmine Howard – American Institutes for Research, 2023
In this report, AIR shares key findings about postsecondary enrollment decision-making experiences of adult learners of color. This report serves as our main study report, encompassing the range of topics we explored; an important goal of this project was to shed light on new issues or ideas, including those that might spark experimentation with…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, African American Students, Reentry Students
Beard, Colin – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
This chapter considers whether John Dewey's writings about experiential education are relevant to modern-day conceptions of adult experiential learning. It highlights how some of the threads of Dewey's thinking are still pertinent, but much more complex.
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Experiential Learning, Adult Learning, Adult Education
Parkinson, Suzanne; Brennan, Fiona; Gleasure, Sean; Linehan, Eoghan – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed an unprecedented impact on our world. In a short period of time, it has exposed deep and entrenched inequalities between and within societies and has prompted a radical rethink of the purpose and function of education. It is clearly no longer sufficient to impart learners with mere curricular knowledge. It is…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Adult Learning, Adult Students, COVID-19
Jenkins, Andrew – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
The literature on educational choices and participation has tended to focus on youth and to some extent on older adults, with little attention to the group in between. This paper therefore analyses participation in various types of learning by people in their 30s and 40s. This group are often juggling career and family life commitments meaning…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Student Participation, Adults, Predictor Variables
Lee, Sunghoe – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
This article aims to unravel a mature student's processes of social engagement at a university, based on nine years of biographical interview data. By framing itself within the realist social theory, this paper analytically distinguishes between precedent social conditioning factors, social engagement processes, and their consequences of learning…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Adult Students, Adult Learning, College Students
Shi, Yuewei; Lin, Xi – Research in Learning Technology, 2021
Online learning has become a prevailing trend among adult learners. Therefore, this study investigated the learning time preference and the relationship between the course completion and learning activities among adult learners based on data from one online learning platform. Results indicate that a periodical fluctuation of participating online…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
Shi, Yuewei; Lin, Xi – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
Maslow's hierarchical needs theory has a unique approach to classifying human needs into five different levels. Some researchers agree that Maslow's need theory followed a "low-high" order and that there is a dominance level for five needs in a hierarchical structure. At the same time, some researchers argue that Maslow's needs are…
Descriptors: Self Actualization, Needs, Classification, Adult Learning
Di Pietro, G.; Karpinski, Z.; Biagi, F. – European Commission, 2021
This report looks at the impact of the business cycle on participation in adult learning in the EU-27 using aggregate quarterly country level data for the period 2005Q1-2019Q4. Data come from the EU Labour Force Survey. Although downturns may give individuals more incentives and more time to update their skills and knowledge, their ability to pay…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Business, Labor Market, Adult Education
Stanley Richards; Nancy Zuckerbrod; Kristin De Vivo, Contributor; Kate Felsen, Contributor; Courtney Paulger, Contributor; Denis Udall, Contributor – Lucas Education Research, George Lucas Educational Foundation, 2021
This paper provides an overview of the research landscape for the kind of professional learning needed for project-based learning to succeed. The evidence is clear that such professional learning must ensure teachers are active, self-directed learners who receive support that is meaningful and relevant to their experiences and context. The authors…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Advanced Placement Programs, Inquiry
Luis Enrique Rodriguez Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Teaching and learning processes often reflect traditional practices that do not meet the academic needs of historically underserved students, especially Latinx and Black students. The goal of the participatory action research project and study, anchored by our collective beliefs in critical pedagogy tenets, was to improve teacher practices and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Participatory Research
Malso, Elina – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2022
Adults learn when they actively engage in meaningful activities. Meaningfulness is an extremely subjective factor, which depends on experiences, values, attitudes and much more. "The ways in which adults learn in and through the workplace are rooted in educational trajectories and their complex intertwining with social institutions (of labour…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Adult Learning, Workplace Learning