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Karmelita, Courtney – Adult Learning, 2017
Adult learners require supports and services to help them successfully transition into taking on the demands and expectations of college students. Transition programs have grown in popularity as a means to aid adult learners as they transition to higher education. Unfortunately, previous research on adult learner participation in transition…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Program Design, Adult Learning, Higher Education
Young, E. Beverly – ProQuest LLC, 2010
There are two dimensions of positioning: self-identity (reflexive) and, events and interaction between people (discursive). Positioning may become socially restrictive when disruptive discursive episodes have a negative impact on individual self-identity. An interpretive biographical study of 11 participants in a transitional residency (temporary…
Descriptors: Socialization, Social Cognition, Social Networks, Teaching Methods