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Sidra Noreen; Zafar Iqbal – European Journal of Education, 2025
This study explores the effectiveness of social practice approach by integrating social practices along with modern teaching strategies, and teacher training to address the challenge of low academic achievement among adult learners in basic literacy programs. For a 4-month experiment, two of a metropolitan city's fourteen adult literacy centres…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Adult Literacy
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Demirbilek, Mesut; Keser, Sitar – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Functional literacy is the learning of knowledge and skills for vital necessities as a higher level of basic literacy and then the operational use of this information in individual, socio-cultural, or economic fields. This research aims to examine the opinions of teachers in the context of functional literacy related to the II level primary…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Educators, Public Education, Teacher Attitudes
Owusu-Boampong, Angela; Mauch, Werner; Gartenschlaeger, Uwe; Lattke, Susanne; Popovic, Katarina – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2021
This publication introduces Curriculum globALE, a basic competence framework for the training of adult educators worldwide. By providing a modular, competency-based framework and cross-curricular approach, Curriculum globALE is unique in its aim to professionalize adult learning and education (ALE) on an international scale, via the competencies…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Basic Education, Competency Based Teacher Education, Professionalism
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2021
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has launched a new publication, "Integrated Approaches to Literacy and Skills Development: Examples of Best Practice in Adult Learning Programmes." This new compilation showcases 21 adult education programmes that demonstrate promising approaches to integrating literacy, life skills and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning
O'Leary, Kate Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Personalized learning is gaining popularity among educational leaders due to reexamining teaching and learning the pedagogy by increasing student ownership. However, the implementation of personalized learning is limited, even after professional development opportunities. The problem addressed in this study was the inconsistency in the content and…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Individualized Instruction, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers
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Prins, Esther; Clymer, Carol; Foreman, Sheri Suarez; Needle, Mark; Raymond, Becky; Toso, Blaire Willson – Grantee Submission, 2018
This paper reports findings from a researcher-practitioner partnership (2015-18) that examined how adult education providers in Chicago, Houston, and Miami are designing and implementing career pathways (CP) programming, particularly for immigrants and adults with limited education. This Institute of Education Sciences-funded study was the first…
Descriptors: Career Development, Adult Learning, Partnerships in Education, Adult Educators
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Sarath Withanarachchi Samaranayake – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
This study aims to assess the impact of online tutoring on oral English fluency in Thai adult learners who have had only primary education in their native language but have no formal education in English. The research involved 34 adult learners participating in online hourly tutoring sessions over six months. Pre- and post-tests were used to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Tutors, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries
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Panitsides, Eugenia A.; Moussiou, Ekaterini – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
Why do inmates participate in educational activities? Is it for the main reasons that individuals belonging to general population do, or do the reasons differ significantly? The present study sought to determine the motives that drive adult prisoners to take part in educational programmes offered in prison. The study took part in Korydallos…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Males, Foreign Countries
Yanek, K.; Goodman, S. – Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, 2023
There is a research base for practices associated with Positive Classroom Behavior Supports (PCBS). An ongoing concern in the field is how to support educators in selecting and implementing with fidelity, the evidence-based practices matched to student needs. The classroom strand at the recent 2022 Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and…
Descriptors: Adults, Positive Behavior Supports, Evidence Based Practice, Elementary School Teachers
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Snow, Kathy; Doucette, Noelle; Francis, Noline – LEARNing Landscapes, 2020
This paper describes our implementation of digital storytelling within a First Nations community elementary school in eastern Canada. Our aim with this project was to support community engagement in the school, while promoting literacy development, by inviting Elders to share their stories, both traditional and modern lived experiences, with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Canada Natives, Indigenous Knowledge
Martinson, Karin; Cho, Sung-Woo; Gardiner, Karen; Glosser, Asaph – Administration for Children & Families, 2018
This report describes the implementation and early impacts of the Washington State Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program at three colleges: Bellingham Technical College, Everett Community College, and Whatcom Community College. I-BEST is a nationally known program that aims to increase access to and completion of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Colleges, Vocational Education, Team Teaching
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Gittelsohn, J.; Jock, B.; Poirier, L.; Wensel, C.; Pardilla, M.; Fleischhacker, S.; Bleich, S.; Swartz, J.; Trude, Angela C. B. – Health Education Research, 2020
OPREVENT2 was a multilevel, multicomponent (MLMC) adult obesity prevention that sought to improve access and demand for healthier food and physical activity opportunities in six Native American communities in the Southwest and Midwest. OPREVENT2 worked with worksites, food stores, schools (grades 2-6), through social media and mailings, and with a…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Intervention, Obesity, Health Behavior
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Jill Stefaniak; Jennifer Maddrell; Yvonne Earnshaw; Paige Hale – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2018
This design case will discuss how design strategies evolved through the development and implementation of two e-service-learning project cohorts. The article provides a detailed account for how Designers for Learning launched its first e-service-learning instructional design project to address adult basic education needs. Information and design…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Electronic Learning, Service Learning, Adult Basic Education
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Rosen, David J. – Adult Literacy Education, 2021
The focus of each Technology Solutions for Adult Basic Skills Challenges column begins with a common challenge facing adult basic skills practitioners. This article examines a technology solution to two large and related challenges: student engagement and student persistence, which, from a program or school perspective, is often described as…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Technology Uses in Education, Learner Engagement, Academic Persistence
Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation, Iowa Department of Education, 2022
The Pathways for Academic Career and Employment (PACE) program is established to provide funding to community colleges for the development of programs that will lead to gainful, quality, in-state employment for members of target populations by providing them with both effective academic and employment training to ensure gainful employment and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Business Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Employment Opportunities
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