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Jeremy Dennis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In adult education, the term "interdisciplinarity" is often treated as an agent for transforming teaching, learning, and research. This appreciation of the concept proliferates despite the fact that its actualization often supports competing interpretations and practices. Many adult educators are unaware of the distinctions made among…
Descriptors: Postmodernism, Adult Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices
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Saal, Leah Katherine – Adult Literacy Education, 2021
According to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act of 2014, literacy refers to "an individual's ability to read, write, and speak in English, compute, and solve problems [emphasis added], at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job, in the family of the individual, and in society" (Title 2, §203). Yet, according to…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Education, Risk, Problem Solving
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Das, Bagmi; Farrell, Isabel; Vashisht, Kriti; Gantt-Howrey, Alexandra; Simpson, Elisabeth; Johnson, Adrianne – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2023
Social justice is a critical component of many of the helping disciplines. Similar goals govern these different disciplines, which are reflected in the scholarship of their professional training. However, the crossover in scholarship is limited. This review of social justice andragogy literature from various fields in the United States creates a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Justice, Andragogy, Social Work
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Zhitian Skylor Zhang; Martina Seemann; Richard Joos; Markus Suren; Helge Fischer; Mathias Hofmann – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
Given the increasing emphasis on game-based approaches (GBAs) and the critical importance of cultivating creativity, there is an urgent need for a comprehensive examination of this emerging interdisciplinary field. The present study employs a scoping review methodology to provide an overview of the existing research that utilized GBAs as a means…
Descriptors: Creativity, Teaching Methods, Game Based Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Kayon Murray-Johnson; Bryan Dewsbury – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
This article explores the design and development of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on inclusive teaching. Released in the Fall of 2023, the MOOC is particularly unique because of its intentional use of ethnically diverse voices and multimodal content to include art, music, spoken word, and storytelling. Modules range from Self and Empathy to…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Inclusion, Teaching Methods, Adult Education
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Angelica Galante – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The creative and dynamic practices that multilinguals perform with linguistic and non-linguistic features such as the body, movement, senses, and space have been documented as integral to their repertoire. Drawing on interdisciplinary literature, this article advances the concept of the repertoire through "translanguaging drama" as a…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Translation, Language Acquisition, Multilingualism
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Lehtinen-Schnabel, Johanna – Research Studies in Music Education, 2023
The topic of language awareness in intercultural music education has received surprisingly little attention in discussions on meaningful and responsive musical practices, despite language being an ubiquitous issue that every music educator encounters when entering a multilingual learning environment. This study explores a language-aware…
Descriptors: Music Education, Singing, Music Activities, Metalinguistics
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Bloomquist, Candace D.; Georges, Leah – Journal of Leadership Education, 2022
Leadership scholar-practitioners seldom need to be sold on the benefits of working together. Rather leadership educators want to know how to teach adult leadership scholar-practitioners how to work together across differences. The aim of this paper is to guide leadership development practitioners on how to nurture leadership that can address the…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Interdisciplinary Approach, Global Approach, Adult Learning
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Tsevreni, Irida – Environmental Education Research, 2018
This paper presents an attempt to apply Jacques Rancière's emancipatory pedagogy of "the ignorant schoolmaster" to environmental education, which emphasises environmental ethics. The paper tells the story of a philosophy of nature project in the framework of an environmental adult education course at a Second Chance School in Greece,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Adult Students, Foreign Countries, Philosophy
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Lukianova, Larysa – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2018
Social and economic transformations which are taking place in the Ukrainian society, the development of market relations, fast scientific and technical progress require the introduction of the model of the continuous knowledge upgrading that is necessary for the successful professional and personal development. The problem of educational needs is…
Descriptors: Social Change, Educational Needs, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Philosophy
Matsu, Saime – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Adult learners often have difficulty reaching high proficiency levels in a foreign language, and curriculum experts are on a constant quest for innovative practices in foreign language learning. The problem addressed by this study was that even with the implementation of different pedagogical approaches, including immersion and technology…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Indonesian
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McGreavy, Bridie; Druschke, Caroline Gottschalk; Sprain, Leah; Thompson, Jessica L.; Lindenfeld, Laura A. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2016
Pedagogy informed by environmental communication can enhance collaboration within and outside the classroom. Through our collaborative, sustainability-focused work within the United States and internationally, we identified core capacities that prepare people to work together to form inclusive organizations and identify and respond to pressing…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Communication Skills, Communication Strategies
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Wright, Robin Redmon; Sandlin, Jennifer A. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
This article focuses on the intersection of three areas of Peter Jarvis's work that have profoundly influenced the field of adult education generally and the authors own research trajectories, in particular: (a) learning from everyday life and in social context, (b) incidental and tacit learning in consumer societies in a globalised world (i.e.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Learning Theories, Learning Processes, Lifelong Learning
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Bhatt, Ibrar; de Roock, Roberto; Adams, Jonathon – Language and Education, 2015
Literacy studies approaches have tended to adopt a position which enables ethnographic explorations of a wide range of "literacies". An important issue arising is the new challenge required for researchers to capture, manage, and analyse data that highlight the unique character of practices around texts in digital environments. Such…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Teaching Methods, Ethnography, Research Methodology
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Govan, Michelle – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2016
The field of digital forensics requires a multidisciplinary understanding of a range of diverse subjects, but is interdisciplinary (in using principles, techniques and theories from other disciplines) encompassing both computer and forensic science. This requires that practitioners have a deep technical knowledge and understanding, but that they…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Criminology, Crime, Electronic Learning
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