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Elizabeth Wood – Journal of Museum Education, 2024
Volunteer programs, especially those for docents, may often be overlooked as learning opportunities rather than as a strategy for program delivery. Thinking about docents first as learners themselves, and then as partners in creating learning experiences for visitors, can create a meaningful shift in the relationship. By integrating concepts from…
Descriptors: Museums, Volunteers, Volunteer Training, Adult Learning
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
Jamin C. Rowan; Mat D. Duerden – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
Educators can help adult learners experience identity transformation and initiate lifelong learning by designing curriculum centered upon transformative learning objectives (TLOs) and experiential learning competencies (ELCs). TLOs point learners to the specific ways of thinking, feeling, and being in the world to which a course or other learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Study Abroad, Transformative Learning
Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza – Adult Learning, 2025
This article, a conceptual and theoretical piece, opens a window on "playful learning" as a philosophy of education and a suite of diverse pedagogical approaches, methods, and techniques. The paper criticizes the serious ambience of adult education with its high levels of instrumentalism and performativity. It argues for playful learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Play, Ideology, Adult Learning
Palle Rasmussen – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
The German tradition of critical theory (often called the Frankfurt School), represented by such authors as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Oskar Negt, have given crucial contributions to social and cultural theory in investigating and conceptualizing contradictory conditions of modern Western societies. This paper will discuss the ways in…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Adult Education, Educational Policy, Adult Learning
Stephen Billett – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2023
The concept of curriculum as a personal journey is now timely, yet timeless and pertinent as an explanatory basis for understanding learning and development across the lifespan. It addresses a current need to explain adults' learning across working life when achieving individual, occupational, community, and societal goals. Advancing this…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Adult Learning, Informal Education, Experience
Nicole Dillard; Stephanie Sisco; Joshua C. Collins – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
This article explores the evolution and expansion of experiential learning theory (ELT) within the context of contemporary adult education, emphasizing the integration of technology, interdisciplinarity, and cultural responsiveness. Although Kolb's foundational model has been instrumental in linking theoretical knowledge with practical…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Adult Education, Technology Uses in Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Karen Magro – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
Artistic Literacies (AL) can be a catalyst to creative, imaginative, and potentially, transformative learning (Blackburn Miller, 2020). Artistic literacy texts include storytelling, creative writing, popular theatre, music, dance, poetry, fiction, or memoir, and visual art. Creative possibilities for diverse adult literacy learners can open when…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Creativity, Adult Learning, Literacy
Loanne Janin – Classroom Discourse, 2024
Following the current research in conversation analysis in the field of second language (L2) learning, the present study demonstrates that beginner-level adult learners actively contribute to vocabulary explanation sequences by mobilising multimodal resources including depictive gestures, gaze, and short verbal turns. The data consist of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Vocabulary, Second Language Learning, Learning Modalities
Hidetsugu Suto; Qianran Wang – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Japan, like many countries, is facing problems with an aging society, and lifelong learning is becoming more and more important. To provide older adults with the opportunity to enroll in lifelong learning programs, it is essential to offer suitable programs. However, designing learning programs for older adults is not easy because they may have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Older Adults, Educational Opportunities
Sara J. Stephenson; Cynthia Ivy; Montana Vonier; Danielle Sweets – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2024
Mentoring in occupational therapy is a crucial role that many practitioners undertake and there is a paucity of mentor education specific to occupational therapists. Authors present an innovative approach to mentor education through a novel three-part online mentor training series. Developed by faculty teaching at Northern Arizona University's…
Descriptors: Mentors, Occupational Therapy, Electronic Learning, Professional Development
Julie Fox-Horton; Lindsey Campbell – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2023
As a concept for preparing and promoting adult student success in an undergraduate, Interdisciplinary Studies degree program with an online senior capstone, this article analyzes how the senior capstone serves as the penultimate component in the students' degree completion. To capitalize on student success, academic advisors and faculty members…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Learning Experience, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Kathy Peno – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Self-directed learning (SDL) has become increasingly important in today's fast-paced and ever-changing society. This paper explores SDL's historical evolution, theoretical foundations, and practical applications, particularly in online environments. SDL is defined as a personal attribute and a process that empowers learners to take the initiative…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Independent Study, Lifelong Learning, Time Management
Stephen Billett; Ashlea Troth; Hongmin Yan – Vocations and Learning, 2024
Elaborating the relations amongst workers' learning, innovations and well-being is essential for achieving two important and dual goals in contemporary work life. The first is individuals' ongoing learning that underpins their employability and can respond to new challenges and emerging occupational and workplace requirements. The second comprises…
Descriptors: Labor Education, Well Being, Innovation, Adult Learning
Muddassir Siddiqi – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
The rapid pace of technological change is revolutionizing every sector of the economy, transforming how value is created and delivered to consumers through technologies like robotics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. This transformation underscores the need for a diverse workforce as the new skills valued and…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Career Centers, Community Colleges, Skill Development