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Baskas, Richard S. – Online Submission, 2022
Adults learn simply through life experience and possibly by pursuing an education. Pursuing an education would depend on the setting of the experience. This project aimed to explore the theories and frameworks that inform the field of adult learning today. A course project was constructed of seven individual projects, each exploring different…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Adult Development
Lundry, Susan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Human beings have spent much time and effort in trying to understand themselves, others, and their world. Mankind uses intellect when trying to understand life but the majority of people continue to encounter frustration, confusion, and a variety of obstacles when dealing with daily challenges and people. Theorists and researchers understand that…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Learning, Adult Development, Maturity (Individuals)
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Yorks, Lyle; Nicolaides, Aliki – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background/Context: The implications of complexity theory have become a recurring topic in the literatures of a wide range of scholarly and professional fields including adult education. This paper builds on literature calling attention to the educational need for pedagogically addressing the implications of the intensifying complexity in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Student Attitudes, Adult Development
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Yorks, Lyle; Nicolaides, Aliki – Human Resource Development Review, 2012
This article addresses an important, yet often underattended to, aspect of the strategy development process: fostering the use of strategic learning practices in the simultaneous practice of developing strategy and cultivating strategic mindset awareness. The need for addressing this aspect of the strategy development process is increasingly…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Models, Strategic Planning, World Views
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Narushima, Miya – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2004
This article explores a particular expression of social activism by older Canadian women to consider its implications for later life learning. 'Older women', despite their heterogeneity, have tended to be pathologized as a part of the 'problem' of ageing and languishing welfare societies--i.e. stereotyped as passive recipients of welfare and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Activism, Older Adults, Adult Development
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Thornton, James E. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2003
The article discusses learning as embedded processes of development and aging, and as social activity over the life course. The concept of life-span learning is proposed and outlined to discuss these processes as aspects of and propositions in life-span development and aging theory. Life-span learning processes arise and continuously develop in a…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Adult Development, Models