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Daniela Coelho; Richa Goyal; Sullay Kanu; Kathryn Swift; Shannon Glasgow – Adult Learning, 2025
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) has expanded to support increasingly economic and technologically competitive environments, often governed by Adult Learning and Education (ALE) principles. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), however, despite the importance given to CPD, the field of ALE remains underdeveloped. Bearing this in mind, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communication Skills, Professional Development, Allied Health Occupations
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Sidra Noreen; Zafar Iqbal – European Journal of Education, 2025
This study explores the effectiveness of social practice approach by integrating social practices along with modern teaching strategies, and teacher training to address the challenge of low academic achievement among adult learners in basic literacy programs. For a 4-month experiment, two of a metropolitan city's fourteen adult literacy centres…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Adult Literacy
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Cathy Jane Rogers; Victoria C. P. Knowland; Ari Vitikainen; Patrick Gondwe; Michael S. C. Thomas – International Review of Education, 2025
A "mind, brain and education" (MBE) approach applies the best evidence regarding how people learn to real classroom settings. Much of the work in the field to date has involved child learners, but MBE is increasingly turning to the study of adult education, supported by a growing understanding of how adults and children differ in their…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Brain, Womens Education