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Leodis Scott – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
Priority one of the Marrakech Framework for Action (MFA) involves promoting adult learning and education (ALE) within a lifelong learning perspective. This article intends to describe how the MFA places lifelong learning into a new era of ascension that will be transformational towards ALE, sustainable development goals, the world promise of…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Guidelines, Adult Education, Adult Learning
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
Gillard, Spring; VanWynsberghe, Rob – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2021
This research paper is based on a broader exploratory case study of a sustainability tour that the authors undertook. The larger study explored "the concept of learning application through the case of a sustainability tour" (Gillard, 2016, p. 226 ). The tour was part of a certificate program for sustainable community development offered…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Community Development, Environmental Education, Professional Continuing Education
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
Chao, Ren-Fang – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate the process of participation in the transformative learning process for invasive species by community volunteers and voluntourists. The results show that children play an important role in motivating adults to accept new ideas, and for both community volunteers and voluntourists, "dialogue" has…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Citizen Participation, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
Murphy, Cliona; Smith, Greg; Mallon, Benjamin; Redman, Erin – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Research suggests that innovative and engaging professional development is instrumental in supporting teachers in developing their competence and confidence in teaching sustainability. An international initiative was developed to explore whether a competencies-oriented Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) professional development model was…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Active Learning, Inquiry
Murphy, Clíona; Mallon, Benjamin; Smith, Greg; Kelly, Orla; Pitsia, Vasiliki; Martinez Sainz, Gabriela – Environmental Education Research, 2021
Transformative teacher education can support educational experiences which provide the opportunity for pupils to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to contribute towards tackling the significant sustainability issues with which we are faced. It is argued that for professional development programmes to be effective they need to improve…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Professional Continuing Education, Teacher Education, Transformative Learning
Casey, Catherine; Asamoah, Lily – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
Distinctively economic objectives for lifelong education, especially adult learning and education, feature prominently in policy-making agendas and educators' practice in much of the world. Critics contend that humanistic and holistic visions of lifelong learning for all have been marginalised and neglected. The current turn of political attention…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Transformative Learning, Social Change
Milana, Marcella, Ed.; Webb, Sue, Ed.; Holford, John, Ed.; Waller, Richard, Ed.; Jarvis, Peter, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
This Handbook provides a wide-ranging frame of reference for researching adult and lifelong education and learning. With contributions from scores of established and newer scholars from six continents, the volume covers a diverse range of geopolitical and social territories across the world. Drawing on the multiple heritages that underpin research…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Lifelong Learning, Global Approach
Avoseh, Mejai B. M., Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2018
These "Proceedings" derived from the Commission for International Adult Education's (CIAE) 2018 International Pre-Conference. They contain 23 papers from 32 authors. Eight of the lead authors are graduate students -- four are rounding up their Master's degrees while four are on their doctoral programs. The rest are a mix of seasoned and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Role of Education, Innovation, Technology Uses in Education
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
Sims, Laura; Sinclair, A. John – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2008
Based on an ongoing qualitative case study in Costa Rica, this article presents the participatory work that the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) is doing with farmers to protect watersheds from erosion and contamination. Specifically, it includes a description of ICE's Watershed Management Agricultural Programme and how farmers…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Lange, Elizabeth A. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2004
This study explores the potential of critical transformative learning for revitalizing citizen action, particularly action toward a sustainable society. Through an action research process with 14 university extension participants, it was found that a dialectic of transformative and restorative learning is vital for fostering active citizenship.…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Extension Education, Citizenship, Action Research