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Naomi Fertman; Sarah De Los Santos Upton – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
Previous research has highlighted best practices for community engagement, problematized server/served approaches to communities, and identified both barriers and benefits for students engaged in this coursework. What is lacking, however, is a deeper examination of students who participate in community engagement in their own home communities. The…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Foreign Countries, Social Justice, School Community Relationship
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Woon Chia Liu – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2024
International teaching experiences, even if short-termed, are great opportunities for student teachers to challenge their assumptions and scrutinise their beliefs, to discover different ways of approaching teaching and learning, and to better understand their own education system through a global education lens. They offer student teachers the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, International Educational Exchange, Teaching Experience, Teaching Assistants
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Ignatovich, Elena – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2020
In most of the scholarly work, the history of lifelong education (LLE) begins in the 1960s, when the concept gathered momentum as part of the agendas of the OECD, World Bank, UNESCO, and Council of Europe. A pre-1960s history is acknowledged with a few names and dates and is generally absorbed into the history of adult education. This paper…
Descriptors: Educational History, Lifelong Learning, Data Collection, Foreign Countries
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Ospina, Nelly Sierra; Medina, Sergio Lopera – Journal of Research in International Education, 2020
This study reports on the impact of international visiting faculty's teaching experiences in the United States on their personal, professional, and intercultural development. It is based on the principles of qualitative research and can be described as a case study. Data collection involved a questionnaire, a written narrative, and a…
Descriptors: Overseas Employment, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Experience, Individual Development
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Terenko, Olena – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2019
Types of non-formal adult education in the USA and Canada are singled out. Non-formal adult education in the United States and Canada is subdivided into basic adult education, education for professional development, education for personal development, specialized adult education, education for the development of civil society (constituents of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonformal Education, Adult Education, Professional Development
Roach, Virginia; El-Khawas, Elaine – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
In 1991 Topside University established the University Committee on the Status of Women Faculty and Librarians (UCSWFL) to identify obstacles to the professional and personal development of women faculty and librarians and to provide advice and guidance concerning initiatives to support them throughout the University. The University has focused on…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Disproportionate Representation, Academic Libraries, Librarians