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Download full textDemetrion, George – Adult Literacy Education, 2021
This essay tracks and expands upon critical exchanges with graduate students in a course for adult educators, highlighting conflicting perspectives among participants on the relative value of theory in enhancing practice. An underlying focus of the course consisted of comparing constructivist and cognitive perspectives on learning theory and their…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Learning Theories, Theory Practice Relationship, Instructional Design
Direct linkGreene, Moira – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2015
This article describes a Framework that can be used to help bridge the gap between theory and practice in adult learning. The Framework promotes practice informed by three strands important to adult literacy work: social theories of literacy, social-constructivist learning theory and principles of adult learning. The Framework shows how five key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Basic Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Adult Learning
Smith, Cristine – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2010
Recent research from the K-12 field indicates that professional development (PD) is a necessary (although not sufficient) factor in improving teacher quality. The research also clearly identifies ways to make professional learning activities for teachers effective. Yet the adult basic education and literacy (ABEL) field is not, for the most part,…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Teaching Methods
Garner, Barbara, Ed. – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2008
"Focus on Basics" is a publication of the US Division of World Education, Inc. It presents best practices, current research on adult learning and literacy, and how research is used by adult basic education teachers, counselors, program administrators, and policymakers. "Focus on Basics" is dedicated to connecting research with…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Mathematics Teachers
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2007
This training guide was created by the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) to help connect research and practice in the field of adult education and family literacy. A Health and Adult Literacy and Learning (HALL)/NCSALL Health Literacy Study Circle+ is a professional development activity for adult basic education…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Family Literacy, Literacy
Garner, Barbara, Ed. – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2008
"Focus on Basics" is a publication of the U.S. Division of World Education, Inc. It presents best practices, current research on adult learning and literacy, and how research is used by adult basic education teachers, counselors, program administrators, and policymakers. "Focus on Basics" is dedicated to connecting research…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Patients
Viens, Julie; Kallenbach, Silja – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2001
Dr. Howard Gardner's introduction of multiple intelligences theory (MI theory) in 1983 generated considerable interest in the educational community. Multiple intelligences was a provocative new theory, claiming at least seven relatively independent intelligences. MI theory presented a conception of intelligence that was in marked contrast to the…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Learning Theories, Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies
Parker, Hazel; Smith, Cristine; Bingman, Beth – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2004
This Seminar guide is part of NCSALL's (National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy's) effort to help connect research and practice in the field of adult education and family literacy. The purpose of the three-hour seminar is to help practitioners, program directors, state staff, and other policymakers read and discuss NCSALL's…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Family Literacy
Comings, John, Ed.; Garner, Barbara, Ed.; Smith, Christine, Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bk), 2007
"Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice, Volume 7" is the newest volume in a series of annual publications of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) that address major issues, the latest research, and the best practices in the field of adult literacy and…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Public Health, Adult Basic Education, Foreign Countries
Garner, Barbara, Ed. – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2003
"Focus on Basics" is the quarterly publication of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy. It presents best practices, current research on adult learning and literacy, and how research is used by adult basic education teachers, counselors, program administrators, and policymakers. "Focus on Basics" is dedicated to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educational Research, Adult Learning, Literacy
Gadsden, Vivian L. – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 2002
Family literacy has developed over the past decade into an increasingly significant--and often contested--area of research, practice, and policymaking in the fields of literacy and family studies as well as in the broader arenas of education and schooling. The purpose of this chapter is to give the reader a better understanding of the general…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Family Literacy, Adult Literacy, Educational Policy
Garner, Barbara, Ed. – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2006
"Focus on Basics" is the quarterly publication of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy. It presents best practices, current research on adult learning and literacy, and how research is used by adult basic education teachers, counselors, program administrators, and policymakers. Articles appearing in this issue…
Descriptors: Administrators, Distance Education, Adult Learning, Adult Basic Education
