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Direct linkOuellette-Schramm, Jennifer – Adult Learning, 2019
Many adult English language learners (ELLs) aspire toward postsecondary educational programs but do not go on to obtain college credentials after beginning classes in Adult Basic Education (ABE) or community college English as a second or other language classes to prepare for college-level English. Understanding how adult ELLs experience learning…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Adult Learning, English (Second Language), Constructivism (Learning)
Gadio, Moussa – Adult Learning, 2011
This article focuses on the issue of policy development for adult learning in Mali, West Africa. On January 2007, the Malian government adopted the "Adult Non-formal Education Policy Document," which was intended to regulate the adult learning sector and federate the actions of policy makers, adult education providers, and adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Chang, Bo – Adult Learning, 2010
The learning community plays an important role in expanding lifelong learning ideas in social units such as cities, towns, and communities. Some European countries, Australia, Japan, Korea, and China are employing the idea of learning community to promote lifelong learning in local communities. In an effort to address recent social problems, China…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Change Strategies
Mottern, Ron – Adult Learning, 2012
This conceptual study examines the importance of relationships between teachers and students in court-mandated adult education settings. Although research has been done on the importance of relationships between teachers and incarcerated students, there have been no outstanding studies on the relationships developed between teachers and students…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Pfahl, Nancy Lloyd; Wiessner, Colleen Aalsburg – Adult Learning, 2007
Narrating stories of life experience has helped educators motivate adult learners with diverse goals. Working with culturally diverse learners in their community contexts, including adults who have been unable to advance their development and learning, educators have observed them become more able to learn and succeed in their varied pursuits as…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Quigley, B. Allan – Adult Learning, 2004
Health literacy is an area of practice and study that is expanding so quickly in the United States and Canada that it is difficult to keep up with the literature--not to mention the steady stream of conference notices. While this is an exciting new development for both adult education and the health professions, the history of adult literacy is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
