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Direct linkBulluck, Kristeen Hendricks – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Houle conducted one of the first studies about adult learner participation. In 1961, Houle wrote "The Inquiring Mind", which describes three distinct learning types: goal-oriented, activity-oriented, and learning-oriented learning. For more than fifty years, The Inquiring Mind has been read, referenced, and reviewed. Several scholars…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Cognitive Style, Adult Students, Graduate Students
Lindstrom, Steven K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This phenomenological research study examines the lived experience of individual adult transformation in the context of travel. Adults throughout history have experienced profound personal and perception changes as a result of significant travel events. Transformative learning occurs through experience, crisis, and reflection, all of which are…
Descriptors: History, Travel, Transformative Learning, Phenomenology
Grafals, Zoraida – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was twofold. First, this study was conducted to compare English communicative competency achievement between two different models of instruction. Adult English language learners (AELLs) participated in either the communicative task-based (CTB) or in a more traditional (MT) language instructional approach. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Control Groups
Dixon-Williams, Shelley B. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This research is an exploratory multiple case study of adult serving undergraduate colleges and universities. Using the Council of Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) Principles of Effective Practice for Serving Adult Learners, this study examines the differences of adult serving undergraduate colleges across the three sectors of higher…
Descriptors: Evidence, Learning Theories, Organizational Culture, Adult Education
Lewis-Goldstein, Diane Evelyn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This exploratory study was an attempt to understand the types of affective learning. The study focused on beginning students who were enrolled in apparel construction/sewing laboratory in community colleges within Los Angeles and Ventura counties during the spring of 2009 (n = 155). The primary purpose of the study was to develop scales that would…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Student Attitudes, Community Colleges, Self Efficacy
Paredes, Elsie Elena – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe how Colombian adult English language learners (ELL) select and use language learning strategies (LLS). This study used Oxford's (1990a) taxonomy for LLS as its theoretical framework. Semi-structured interviews and a focus group interview, were conducted, transcribed, and analyzed for 12…
Descriptors: Semantics, Focus Groups, Learning Strategies, English (Second Language)
