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Carlock, Russell H., Jr. – Harvard Educational Review, 2016
Adult English as a second language (ESL) educators have struggled to move beyond skills-based instruction to implement more student-centered, contextualized pedagogy that prepares students to become active citizens and to solve real-world problems, even as the growing number of immigrants make adult education increasingly important for determining…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Action, Activism, Immigrants
Harner, Michael Dean – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Workplace learning is complex as employees engage in activities to meet organizational objectives. This study investigates incidental learning in a complex clinical environment. The systems created to collect information and perform patient-visit functions involve several people who have distinct roles that can impact how subsequent people in the…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Workplace Learning, Clinics, Employees
Bailie, John W., III – Online Submission, 2012
This study examined power and authority in the student-instructor relationship in a restorative practices-based graduate program. This qualitative investigation utilized a narrative approach. Ten alumni of the International Institute for Restorative Practices master's degree programs were engaged in a one-time face-to-face interview and document…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Power Structure, Graduate Students, College Faculty
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Larrabure, Manuel; Vieta, Marcelo; Schugurensky, Daniel – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2011
In the first decade of the 21st century, efforts to create alternatives to neoliberalism emerged in many parts of Latin America. Social movements across the region took to the streets, occupied abandoned factories, and started to create new democratic spaces, solidarity networks, and social economy initiatives. In one country after another,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democratic Values, Adult Education, Praxis
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Evans, Jeff; Tsatsaroni, Anna – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2008
Our discussion of social justice begins by embracing both "distribution" and "recognition" aspects of social relations (Vincent, 2003). The first aspect considers the way that goods, knowledge, skills, rights, etc. are distributed among social groups; the second aspect focuses on aspects of society structuring social encounters…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Gender Differences, Social Justice