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Valerie Reed Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Responding to the claim that teacher engagement in professional development is a waste of time, this study employed phenomenology as the approach to explore teachers' perceptions of the role of continuous professional development (CPD) in improving their instructional practices and student learning. A purposive sample of elementary teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Instructional Improvement, Teaching Methods
Kaitlyn Sarah Leahy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Using the Compassionate Music Teaching (CMT) framework as a lens, in this study I explored the ways that teachers of adults learning recreationally in music lessons may align their teaching approaches to learners' adult-specific needs. Adult education scholars have accentuated the need for facilitators of adult learning to consider adult learners'…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Music Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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McCray, Carissa, Ed. – IGI Global, 2021
With the turmoil and conflict that has been present in recent times, it is imperative that new methods of teaching are explored in order to produce emotionally secure and connected individuals. Social-emotional learning and whole learner education has emerged as a strategy to ensure that students are actively engaged in learning, the school, and…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Teaching Methods, Self Management, Student Needs
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Lövgren, Johan – Human Rights Education Review, 2022
Citizenship education played a crucial role in the 19th century transition from royal sovereignty to democracy in the Nordic region, with folk high schools (FHS) playing an important role. While established to empower the people ("folk") for active participation in society, the contemporary folk high schools have reoriented from their…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Folk Schools, Civil Rights, Educational History
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McClain, Adam – Adult Learning, 2019
This article will examine specific films that portray events or phenomena of adult learning and development, and how adult learning and development can be explored by studying the lives of the fictional characters in film. It will demonstrate how the use of contemporary film by adult educators and adult learners can enhance insights about people,…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Films, Adult Students, Fiction
Anders, Brent A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This exploratory phenomenological research study describes the experiences of U.S. Army soldiers going through the mandated Structured Self Development (SSD) online courseware. Multiple findings are presented covering soldier participants' experiences with the process, content, and culture/environment of SSD. Additionally, findings dealing with…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Military Personnel, Armed Forces, Individual Development
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Gouthro, Patricia A.; Holloway, Susan M. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2018
Many educators in adult, community and higher education contexts are concerned with fostering reflective learning amongst their students. This paper explores the concept of critical reflection and considers how engaging with fiction may be an innovative pedagogical approach to support critical learning opportunities. Drawing upon interviews with…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Adult Education, Fiction, Teaching Methods
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Le Cornu, Alison – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
Both Jarvis and theories of Christian Religious Education (CRE) emphasise that learning develops the whole person, yet they differ in their understandings of how and why this is the case. Jarvis's experiential learning theory begins "from below" with experience, whereas many approaches of CRE begin with the end result: individuals…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Mentors, Self Concept
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Jarošová, Eva; Lorencová, Hana; Pubalová, Katerina; Šedivý, Lukáš – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2017
Teaching methods in MBA and Lifelong Learning Programmes (LLP) for managers should be topically relevant in terms of content as well as the teaching methods used. In terms of the content, the integral part of MBA and Lifelong Learning Programmes for managers should be the development of participants' leadership competencies and their understanding…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Business Administration Education, Masters Programs, Teaching Methods
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2016
Adults need certain capabilities to get and keep a job, provide responsive care for children, manage a household, and contribute productively to the community. When these skills have not developed as they should, or are compromised by the stresses of poverty or other ongoing adversity, our communities pay the price. But where do these capabilities…
Descriptors: Adults, Skill Development, Job Skills, Parenting Skills
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Su, Ya-Hui – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2009
This paper considers what the idea of creativity can mean and how it can contribute when creativity becomes a key to the development of lifelong learning practices. It seeks to adapt or extend our understanding of creativity in an attempt to facilitate the development of lifelong learning. This paper argues that, while the classical concern around…
Descriptors: Creativity, Lifelong Learning, Teaching Methods, Individual Development
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De Greef, Maurice; Verte, Dominique; Segers, Mien – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2012
Our current knowledge society does not only have an impact on labour market demands, but its citizens also have to cope with increasing social demands. A growing number of vulnerable adults lack basic competences and therefore risk social exclusion. In this respect, The European Commission as well as the OECD agree that adult education can play a…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Adult Education, Labor Market, Lifelong Learning
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Biraimah, Karen L.; Jotia, Agreement Lathi – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2013
The goal of this study was to assess the longitudinal effectiveness and impact of study abroad programs on teachers' content knowledge and professional perspectives. The study focused on a recent Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad to Botswana (summer 2011) and compares results with an earlier Fulbright-Hays program to Singapore and Malaysia…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Liggins, James – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The idea that individual behavior is the result of society's influence on individual self-concept beliefs reflects more than a century of theory and research. Therefore, this study focuses on self-concept as a construct of primordial human characteristics such as emotion, aspiration, love, conflict, anger, jealousy, contradiction, guilt, and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Individual Characteristics, Locus of Control, Beliefs
Tan, Fujuan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Adult education literature generally acknowledges the appropriateness of the incorporation of instructional strategies that stress students' prior experience. Whether this appropriateness applies to students from diverse cultural backgrounds, such as adult students in ESL programs, is not clear. Based on the assumption that students from different…
Descriptors: Interviews, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Educational Strategies
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