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Boeren, Ellen – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
This paper discusses the layered nature of lifelong learning participation, bringing together fragmented insights in why adults do or do not participate in lifelong learning activities. The paper will discuss the roles and responsibilities of individual adults, education and training providers and countries' social education policies, often…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Learning Activities, Educational Policy
Tam, M. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2011
This paper discusses the relationship between ageing and learning, previous literature having confirmed that participation in continued learning in old age contributes to good health, satisfaction with life, independence and self-esteem. Realizing that learning is vital to active ageing, the Hong Kong government has implemented policies and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Aging (Individuals), Life Satisfaction, Quality of Life
Nielsen, Klaus – Studies in Continuing Education, 2008
This article proposes the need to address scaffold instructions from a situated learning perspective. Based on an empirical study of how apprentice bakers learn their trade, it is claimed that studies of learning at the workplace yield important insights into our understanding of scaffold instructions. Seen from the perspective of the apprentices,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Adults, Interviews, Adult Learning
Hughes, Chris – Studies in Continuing Education, 2004
Supervisors are often urged by the workplace learning literature to take active roles as facilitators of the learning of their staff. The role that is envisaged is similar to the facilitative role developed in the humanistic traditions of adult education, in which facilitation is supportive but also proactive, challenging and interventionist.…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Administrator Role, Employees, Trust (Psychology)