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Angela Bate – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
The Labour Party's manifesto aims to reform further and higher education by integrating business, training providers and unions within a governmental effort to ensure a highly trained workforce. Skills England will align training with labour market needs, empower local leaders and enhance support for job seekers. However, the focus on young people…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Qi Sun; Xi Lin; Xiaoqiao Zhang; Rachel Rui – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
This qualitative case study examines the learning experiences of self-organized Chinese and Chinese American adults from the X Care Group amid the political repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings revealed how care group members created meaning in their daily life experiences, reformed their identity, and increased their Chinese and…
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Community Involvement, Asian Americans, Asians
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Akenson, Ashley B.; Arce-Trigatti, Andrea; Akenson, James E. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
Transformative education exists in a complex, dynamic, and ambiguous state seeking structural definitions and relationships within an interdisciplinary arena often critiqued for its limitations as an individual--rather than social--practice. This type of education encompasses learning processes that may facilitate the development of civic-minded,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Civics, Leadership Training, Individual Development
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Eschenbacher, Saskia – Journal of Transformative Education, 2019
This article aims at expanding transformation theory through the work of the philosopher Richard Rorty. His concept of redescription allows us to distinguish between good learning and transformative learning and to counteract the critique of conceptional looseness. In addition, Rorty's thesis of contingency and his notion of irony are going to be…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Philosophy, Criticism, Transformative Learning
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Nohl, Arnd-Michael – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2015
Empirical models of transformative learning offer important insights into the core characteristics of this concept. Whereas previous analyses were limited to specific social groups or topical terrains, this article empirically typifies the phases of transformative learning on the basis of a comparative analysis of various social groups and topical…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Models, Concept Teaching, Comparative Analysis
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Griffiths, Kerryn – Journal of Learning Design, 2015
The article "Personal Coaching: A Model for Effective Learning" (Griffiths, 2006) appeared in the "Journal of Learning Design" Volume 1, Issue 2 in 2006. Almost ten years on, Kerryn Griffiths reflects upon her original article. Specifically, Griffiths looks back at the combined coaching-learning model she suggested in her…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Consultants, Counseling, Individual Development
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Spry, Nandila; Marchant, Teresa – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2014
Gender equity and the empowerment of women is a significant international issue. Successful adult education programs are vital to enhance women's situation. Lessons learned from a personal development program provided for thousands of women are analysed. The program is conducted by community service providers in Australia and internationally, with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Development, Females, Empowerment
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Madsen, Wendy; O'Mullan, Cathy; Keen-Dyer, Helen – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2014
Leadership programs have been extensively promoted in rural communities in Australia. However, few have been evaluated. The results of the evaluation of a rural leadership program provided in this paper highlight the need for adult learning theories to be more overtly identified and utilised as the basis of planning and implementing leadership…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Leadership Training, Rural Education
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Frick, L.; Albertyn, R. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is an issue within the context of lifelong learning, given the (South African) issues of equity and redress, the international demands on adults to contribute to the knowledge economy, qualification inflation and increased competitiveness for knowledge workers. In the process of conscientisation and in an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prior Learning, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning
Turley, Matthew William – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In this qualitative study the primary researcher utilized research methods of heuristic phenomenology in order to better understand the experience of recovery for a group of male participants. The purpose of this study was to aid the primary researcher in better understanding his own experience of recovery from alcoholism, as well as to add to the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Alcoholism, Males, Rehabilitation
Hannaford, Ronald Geoffrey – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Factors associated with globalization and unprecedented technological advancement have facilitated the opportunity to take education beyond the boundaries of the physical classroom and geographical borders to serve a global context. While this exponential growth has resulted in more convenient access to learning, increased possibilities for…
Descriptors: Technological Advancement, Alienation, Well Being, Individual Development
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Callahan, Aimee; Kaiser, Leann M. R.; Erichsen, Elizabeth; Miller, Kelsee – Journal of Adult Education, 2009
Professional women face many changes and challenges in their lives. This article contains the personal narratives of four women who have carried on conversations to reflect upon their transformation from graduate students to educators. In the process, they relate adult learning theories to their own life experiences in order to gain a better…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Women Faculty, Graduate Students, Mothers
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Smith, Janice E. – Adult Learning, 2009
This reflective paper discusses aspects of the author's personal development as an adult learner. Though that development is reflected in her practice as an adult educator, she does not explore those implications in the paper. Instead, she grapples with what it means to make meaning, to determine how she knows what she thinks she knows. The author…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Reflection, Individual Development
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Hyland, Terry – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2009
Although it has been given qualified approval by a number of philosophers of education, the so-called "therapeutic turn" in education has been the subject of criticism by several commentators on post-compulsory and adult learning over the last few years. A key feature of this alleged development in recent educational policy is said to be the…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Adult Learning, Therapy, Educational Policy
Fleming, Ted – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2008
The attachment theory of John Bowlby has had an enduring impact on our understanding of child development. But these ideas are a neglected and forgotten discourse in adult education. In this paper concepts such as secure and insecure attachments, internal working models, and the strange situation along with the more contemporary concept of…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Education, Attachment Behavior, Adult Learning
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