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Milana, Marcella; Tarozzi, Massimiliano – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2021
This article provides a conceptual analysis of the two domains of global citizenship education and adult education and learning, along with their similarities and differences. It begins by unpacking the ambiguous and contested concept of global citizenship education and proposing a critical vision of it, within a global social justice framework.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Social Justice, Adult Education, Epistemology
Dilbaz, Engin – Online Submission, 2021
In this study, it is aimed to examine adult education policies in Turkey based on the views of managers, teachers, qualified instructors and trainees and to present a conceptual model for a future-based adult education system. The study is a case study and has the single nested case study design. Adult education policies in Turkey, which is the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Strategies
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M. Mahruf C. Shohel, Editor; Alex Mortby, Editor – IGI Global, 2024
Scholars and educators worldwide are grappling with the challenge of translating innovative research findings into tangible improvements within their classrooms. The chasm between theory and practice hinders the progress of education and leaves a wealth of untapped potential. The need for a process or approach to bridge these elements is urgent.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Evidence Based Practice, Theory Practice Relationship, Higher Education
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Scalabrino, Chiara; Navarrete Salvador, Antonio; Oliva Martínez, José María – Environmental Education Research, 2022
The evolution to a just, Low Carbon and Circular Economy could be accelerated if additional education and training professionals embraced the practical implications of terms such as Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) or for Sustainability (ES). Therefore, this study identified the numerous elements of Environmental and Sustainability…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Transformative Learning, Sustainable Development
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Street, Brian – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
This paper looks at some issues around "learning to read" from the viewpoint of a social practice concept of literacy for both child and adult literacy. This calls for an ethnographic approach that, although increasingly common in the field of adult literacy, is less common in the policy and practice of schooling; there, a more…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Literacy Education
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Yao, Chunlin – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2018
The study adopts a semi-structured survey to examine the effects of a blended learning environment in adult education in promoting sustainable development. The study analyses the development of blended learning environments in China, and some challenges that China faces in sustainable development. Based on the analysis results, the study revealed…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Art Education, Adult Education, Sustainable Development
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Uhlenwinkel, Anke – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2017
"Young people on the global stage: their education and influence" is an EU-funded project that involves teachers and students from three European countries (Britain, Germany and Spain) and teachers from several African countries with a focus on The Gambia and Kenya. The main aim of the project is to promote an understanding of some of…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Sustainability
Donaghy, Ryan JoAnn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Women's education has been promoted as both a key objective of the global campaign for gender equality and as a "sine qua non" of long-term sustainable development. In the extant literature, non-formal education has been advanced as a tool for social change and women's empowerment. Moreover, recent reports published by international…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Sustainable Development
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Huang, Ronghuai, Ed.; Kinshuk, Ed.; Price, Jon K., Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2014
This book presents the current advances and emerging trends in digital technologies for learning and education through a number of invited chapters on key research areas. It addresses information and communications technology (ICT) in a global context, reporting on emerging trends and issues in four areas -- basic education, technical and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Vocational Education, Distance Education
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Witteveen, Loes; Put, Marcel; Leeuwis, Cees – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2010
This paper presents an evaluation of the visual problem appraisal (VPA) learning environment in higher education. The VPA has been designed for the training of competences that are required in complex stakeholder settings in relation to sustainability issues. The design of VPA incorporates a diversity of instruction strategies to accommodate the…
Descriptors: Visual Learning, Teaching Methods, Reflection, Simulation
Ouane, Adama, Ed.; Glanz, Christine, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (NJ1), 2011
The central concern of this volume is how to provide quality education to African children, adolescents and adults through the best-suited media and curricular content in order to achieve social cohesion, inclusion and sustainable development. For at least five decades, since the 1953 UNESCO Report "The Use of Vernacular Languages in…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Teaching Methods, African Languages, Bilingual Education
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Barlett, Peggy F.; Rappaport, Ann – College Teaching, 2009
A long-term study of two faculty development programs on sustainability and the environment reveals enduring changes in teaching, research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and engaged action. Participants in cohorts of Tufts University's Environmental Literacy Institute (12-16 years ago) and Emory University's Piedmont Project (1-5 years ago)…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation
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Greenberg, Joe – Horace, 2009
As a veteran teacher, Horace Smith fought the creeping disillusionment and cynicism many in the education field experience at times. He did so by asking questions and having the courage and gumption to start a conversation with colleagues about their school. From those early conversations with Horace, new ones emerged. Some were among those who…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods, Educational Principles, Service Learning
Rimanoczy, Isabel Beatriz – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore the processes and steps that business leaders go through as they champion sustainability initiatives, seeking to understand the learning strategies, knowledge and supports they found, as well as the mindset that helped them. This research contributes to an emerging body of knowledge that addresses the need…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Socialization, Learning Strategies, Religious Factors
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Rathzel, Nora; Uzzell, David – Environmental Education Research, 2009
This paper puts forward an alternative view on sustainable development, arguing that the separation between the economy, the environment and the social in the Brundtland model obscures the societal character of the economy, the economic bases of the social, and the fact that the environment is a societal product. We differentiate between strong…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Transformative Learning, Vignettes
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