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Shearon, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Adult Basic Education (ABE) is a critical part of the educational landscape in the United States; its aim is to improve the basic reading, writing, and numeracy skills of the very diverse population of adults in America who lack proficiency in these skills, and more often than not, a high school graduation credential (U.S. Department of Education,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Scores, Student Attitudes, Social Support Groups
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Landry, Julien; von Lieres, Bettina – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
Participedia is a collaborative, digital learning tool for the co-production of knowledge about new forms of citizen participation across the world (www.participedia.net). In this paper, we analyse using the platform as a learning resource for adult learners who are democracy practitioners and for undergraduate students. We examine Participedia's…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Adult Learning, Democracy, Undergraduate Students
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Conway, Patrick Filipe – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2022
This article synthesizes literatures relating to the fields of andragogy and prison education. It is a key moment to reflect on teaching practices inside carceral settings. As Pell Grant availability for incarcerated students is set to expand dramatically, many college and university faculty are soon likely to be entering prisons as instructors…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Andragogy
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Rasmussen, Palle; Milana, Marcella; Vatrella, Sandra; Larson, Anne – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
The 'Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies' (PIAAC), developed and managed by the OECD, is an important source of knowledge about adult skills as well as an intervention in the field of education policy. One level of the intervention is the presence of PIAAC results in public media and debate. This article presents a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Mass Media, Intervention
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Braund, Anne; James, Trixie; Johnston, Katrina; Mullaney, Louise – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2022
A growing number of single mothers are seeking entry to higher education via enabling programs; however, these students face unique struggles to make their dream a reality. There is some research on the challenges faced by student-mothers in higher education; however, research specifically on single mothers in enabling education is limited. This…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Mothers, Nontraditional Students, Adult Learning
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Kwapong, Olivia Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
COVID-19 has brought surprises in the educational landscape. Educational institutions had to hurriedly migrate all teaching, learning and assessment activities to online platforms. Such was the case of adult learners who had signed on to the access course for entrance into the University of Ghana. This study sought to find out how the e-learning…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Gender Differences, Educational Technology
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Zarestky, Jill; Vilen, Lauren; Short, Rachel A.; Struminger, Rhonda; Michelle Lawing, A. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2022
An understanding of science concepts is important for living in modern society. Supporting adults' science learning can be particularly challenging because most adults no longer attend formal educational institutions where access and opportunities are facilitated by teachers and school-sponsored programs. Biological field stations (BFSs) are a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Science Education, Science Teaching Centers, Scientific Literacy
Henning, Denise; Hanson, Ivana – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2022
Steps taken to address racial inequality in the private sector and higher education are not always altruistic. This brief examines the economic impact of having a representative workforce, focusing on the state of North Carolina (NC). It discusses the importance of successful education programming designed to address issues related to Black,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Higher Education, Ethnicity, Racial Discrimination
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Leyland, Peter – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2018
The focus of this article is on the question of language and its relation to adult learning in what Peter Leyland describes as 'a post-modern way'. In other words, it is a pastiche or a multiplicity of ideas that he has been meeting with over a year working with adult students who are learning about different areas of poetry in his Worker's…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Poetry, Lifelong Learning
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Mayo, Peter – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2018
This paper draws on a national lifelong learning (LLL) strategy document to argue that not all EU member states are ready to give up on a more broadened social and community-oriented form of LLL, at least in their policy document discourse. They can appeal, in their policy interpretations, to the 'democratic imaginary' whereby learning, including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Lifelong Learning, Adult Education
Bryant, Sherry L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative research report is a historical, instrumental, single, bounded case study, based on the concept of charisma, and charismatic leadership and authority in operation. It is based on Max Weber's ideal-type charismatic leadership model. The researcher examined the sociocultural climate of the 1960s and 1970s to find out how charismatic…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Ideology, Moral Development, Learning Activities
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Heilmann, John; Bertone, Andrea – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) encounter many challenges in the school environment. We sought to identify school-based SLPs' needs in the areas of training and research to support school-based practice. Method: We collected surveys from 145 school-based SLPs practicing in Wisconsin. Respondents were asked to describe aspects of…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Training, Educational Needs
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Bilon, Anna Dorota – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2021
This article develops an agentic approach to activist learning and analyzes the interplay between agency and learning. The agentic approach derives from Alheit's concept of biographical learning and Emirbayer and Mische's concept of agency. The article builds on the case study of an activist's narrative to show that the development of agency is…
Descriptors: Activism, Learning Processes, Personal Autonomy, Correlation
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Lee, Crystal; Kurumada, Chigusa – Language Learning, 2021
Three experiments investigated adult learners' acquisition of a novel adjective. In English and other languages, meanings of some gradable adjectives are said to include an absolute standard of comparison (e.g., "full" means completely filled with content). However, actual usage is often imprecise, where a maximum absolute standard of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Adult Learning, Language Usage, Semantics
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Van der Merwe-Muller, Lorna; Dasoo, Nazreen – South African Journal of Education, 2021
In this article we present the findings of an investigation on how primary school teachers at 3 independent primary schools in Johannesburg experienced continuous professional teacher development (CPTD). There is a wealth of literature available on planning, organising and implementing effective CPTD. Such literature also highlights the importance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Continuing Education
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