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Teaching Style Preferences of Nutrition Education Assistants for Cooperative Extension Systems in the Southern Region
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Austin, Metara T. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Extension provides non-formal education and learning activities to people throughout the country. The largest non-formal adult education organization in the world, Cooperative Extension takes knowledge gained through research and education directly to the community to create positive changes. Through the use of paraprofessionals, Extension is able…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Adult Education, Paraprofessional Personnel, Nutrition Instruction
Learner-Centered Teaching Style: Comparing Face-to-Face and Online Adult Educators' Commitment Levels
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Edwards, Shanda E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
For at least 50 years, prominent adult learning theorists have recommended that adult educators commit to a learner-centered teaching approach. Extensive teaching styles research has been conducted on face-to-face and online adult educators, albeit separately, to examine their commitment levels to the learner-centered style. In addition, there has…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Adult Educators, Electronic Learning, Comparative Analysis
An Exploratory Study of the Philosophy and Teaching Styles of Georgia Workforce Educators and Entrepreneurship Instructors
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Floyd, Tuboise D. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This exploratory study examines the adult educational philosophies and teaching styles of workforce educators and entrepreneurship instructors within the State of Georgia. A workforce educator is an educator teaching workforce skills; an entrepreneurship instructor is an educator who teaches entrepreneurship skills. Conti's Principles of Adult…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Teacher Characteristics, Educational Philosophy, Reliability
From Politicized Adult Education to Market Oriented Adult Higher Education: How Adult Education Practice in One Region is Different from Another
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Wang, Victor C. X.; Mott, Vivian W. – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2010
This study investigated the general instructional modes of adult educators in Southeast China and Northeast China. The study utilized Conti's (1983, 2004) Principles of Adult Learning Scale (PALS) to measure instructional modes of adult educators. Data were collected from 112 randomly selected participants engaged in teaching Chinese adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Higher Education, Geographic Regions