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Direct linkBrennan, Aislinn; O'Grady, Maeve – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2022
The funding model for further education and training (FET) in the Republic of Ireland currently describes provider and learner success in narrow quantifiable terms as captured on the national Programme Learner Support System (PLSS). FET practitioners have grappled with the restrictive rigidity of these outcomes and measures of success for adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Psychological Characteristics, Educational Policy
Preston, Annmarie Judge – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2011
Reflexivity is a professional requirement of the Adult Guidance Counsellor, with reflexive practice paramount to our work. From 2008 to 2010 I trained as an Adult Guidance Counsellor while working with an unemployed adult client group. During this time, I also journeyed through my first pregnancy. Towards the end of my training, I experienced a…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Pregnancy, Guidance, Ethnography
Mooney, Des – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2011
Using a qualitative case study method the researcher studied a group of adult returning students completing a childcare course. Methods used included focus groups, a questionnaire and observations. Using a holistic analysis approach (Yin 2003) of the case the researcher then focused on a number of key issues. From this analysis the themes of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Reentry Students
Connolly, Brid, Ed.; Fleming, Ted, Ed.; McCormack, David, Ed.; Ryan, Anne, Ed. – 1996
The six articles in this first issue comprise a critical discourse about theories, practices, and research with the intent of realizing the potential of adult learning to bring about social change. "Adult Education and Empowerment for Individual and Community Development" (Jack Mezirow) outlines and updates the author's transformation…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Community Development, Democracy
Nesbit, Tom, Ed. – 2001
This document contains 29 papers and 7 roundtable presentations from a Canadian conference on the study of adult education. The following papers are among those included: "Cultivating Knowledge" (Mike Ambach); "Subsistence Learning" (Rose Barg); "Non-Governmental Organizations and Popular Education Programs" (Bijoy P.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
