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Susan M. Holloway; Patricia A. Gouthro – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
Funded by the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) grant, this national study examines arts-based adult education organizations involved in dance, music, drama, and visual arts with a philosophical perspective aligned with a multiliteracies theoretical framework. Multiliteracies considers how cultural and linguistic diversity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Students
Denna McCalla-Howell – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research study analyzes how the predictor variables sensing-intuitive learning style, verbal-visual learning style, gender, major, and degree level of adult learners predict student intrinsic motivation-to know, extrinsic motivation-external regulation, and amotivation to pursue an online graduate degree. The primary research question states:…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Academic Degrees, Gender Differences, Majors (Students)
Amber Leigh Rikkonen – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Language learning is an important necessity of today's globalized society. Therefore, it is vital to provide the most effective methods for learning a foreign language. Through understanding how foreign language learning, cognitive load theory, learning modalities, and participants' physiological sex relate to one another, more effective…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Learning Modalities, Adult Students
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Holloway, Susan M.; Gouthro, Patricia A. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
Drawing upon a pilot study and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight research study to explore how a multiliteracies framework may inform more critical and creative pedagogical approaches for adolescents and adults, this article begins with a brief overview of the literature on multiliteracies and then overviews the…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Critical Theory, Creativity, Adult Students