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Angela Bate – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
The Labour Party's manifesto aims to reform further and higher education by integrating business, training providers and unions within a governmental effort to ensure a highly trained workforce. Skills England will align training with labour market needs, empower local leaders and enhance support for job seekers. However, the focus on young people…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Adult Education
Sahin, Mehmet; Dogantay, Hidayet – Online Submission, 2018
The traditional theories behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism and connectivism are regarded as essential theories of learning. However, transformational learning theory works with critical thinking in adult learning. This process is based on their experience and it is followed by the steps of thinking and transformation process in perspective…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Transformative Learning, Adult Learning, Skill Development
Bucura, Elizabeth; Brashier, Rachel – Journal of General Music Education, 2022
This article discusses transformative learning in secondary general music (SGM), while considering students' transitions from elementary to secondary music classes. SGM is uniquely situated for expanded pedagogies and musicianship, yet a gap in music activities persists between elementary and secondary classes and between home and school. The…
Descriptors: Music Education, Transformative Learning, Prior Learning, Learning Processes
Aarto-Pesonen, Leena; Piirainen, Arja – Teaching Education, 2020
This qualitative metasynthesis investigated students' meaningful learning experiences amid andragogical teacher education programmes. The programmes catered to the specific learning needs of adult students in the context of university-based teacher education. This study aimed to provide a wider picture of the frames of students' meaningful…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Andragogy
Hersted, Lone – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
Whether an organization prospers depends importantly on the relationships among its participants, and central to the success of relationships is the process of dialogue. This article describes an action-based educational practice for enhancing dialogical and relational skills among members of an organization. The effort draws on concepts of…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Skill Development, Metacognition, Adult Learning
Gilblom, Elizabeth A.; Messemer, Jonathan E. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
This qualitative study employs transformative learning theory to investigate the learning experiences of 18 current students and graduates of Escuela Taller 'Gaspar de Melchor de Jovellanos' (ET) in Old Havana, Cuba. ET is a tuition-free, skilled-trades program that trains adult learners with limited economic resources and opportunities to…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Adult Students
Nicolaides, Aliki; Dzubinski, Leanne – Journal of Transformative Education, 2016
Life in the 21st century is increasingly complex, paradoxical, and ambiguous, bringing into question the ways that graduate adult education programs function. In this article, we describe an action research study involving the method of collaborative developmental action inquiry conducted with key stakeholders of a program in adult education at a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Transformative Learning, Action Research
Roessger, Kevin M. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2014
In work-related instrumental learning contexts, the role of reflective activities is unclear. Kolb's experiential learning theory and Mezirow's transformative learning theory predict skill adaptation as an outcome. This prediction was tested by manipulating reflective activities and assessing participants' response and error rates during novel…
Descriptors: Reflection, Skill Development, Experiential Learning, Transformative Learning
A Contested Profession: Employability, Performativity and Professionalism in Irish Further Education
Grummell, Bernie; Murray, Michael J. – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2015
Further education typically represents the vocational, technical and practice-based forms of education, but this is now being repositioned in a neo-liberal era that is driving a performance-based and market-orientated vision of education in the Republic of Ireland and elsewhere. The implacable drive of neo-liberal economics in everyday practice is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Employment Potential, Neoliberalism
Wang, Victor C. X.; Cranton, Patricia – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2012
Although Westerners have used over 200 terms to describe self-directed learning (SDL), it is educators in Confucius heritage cultures (CHC) that have successfully promoted and implemented SDL. This article argues that for learners in the Western cultures, especially in the United States to catch up with learners in other industrialized nations…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Adult Education, Models, Program Implementation
Walter, Pierre – Adult Learning, 2013
Adult learning today takes place primarily within walled classrooms or in other indoor settings, and often in front of various types of digital screens. As adults have adopted the digital technologies and indoor lifestyle attributed to the so-called "Net Generation," we have become detached from contact with the natural world outdoors.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Outdoor Education, Influence of Technology, Age Groups
Elufiede, Kemi, Ed.; Olson, Joann S., Ed.; Murray-Johnson, Kayon, Ed. – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2018
The 42st annual conference of the Adult and Higher Education Alliance (AHEA) was held at the University of Central Florida in March 2018 and explored the theme, "Quality of Life in Adult Learning." The purpose of the Adult and Higher Education Alliance (AHEA) is to help institutions of higher education develop and sustain learning…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Adult Learning, Higher Education, Best Practices
Halx, Mark D. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2010
In this paper, I advocate for enhancing critical thinking skill development in undergraduate education by taking advantage of the increased experiential maturity of today's students. I argue that many undergraduates are in fact "adults", by virtue of their age or experiential maturity, and they should be educated as such. Undergraduates who have…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Maturity (Individuals), Adult Education
Freeman, Robin; Le Rossignol, Karen – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2010
The role of a professional and creative writing degree is to provide resources, structured workshops, professional interactions--and the potential for creative risk. Opportunities for risk, within the structured environment of the university, challenge the individual's perspectives and judgements, as well as their ability to analyse and to reflect…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Creative Writing, Experiential Learning, Risk
Schaefer, Jane L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Several national trends are converging to impact adult education today. First, the increasing presence of adults in higher education is accentuated by the expansive Baby Boom generation who are demanding greater access to the higher education system in the United States. Second, regarding workforce and economic development in the 21st century,…
Descriptors: Careers, Adult Development, Credentials, Economic Development