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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
Susan M. Caley Opsal – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A lack of understanding of how women perceive their learning continues to hinder efforts to design educational experiences that prepare women for STEM disciplines. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore women's perceptions of their learning from a middle school STEM program a decade earlier and other learning experiences they…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Middle School Students, STEM Education
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Lear, Glenna – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
This article explores women's midlife learning as an awakening of the self in the process of being in the world and interacting with others and uses the author's personal experience of transformation as a developmental change with the emergence of personal growth and self-realization of a more complete, balanced, and fulfilled self. In the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Females, Individual Development, Metacognition
Hightower, Toby E. – Intellect, 1973
Descriptors: Administrators, Adults, Graduate Students, Individual Development
Wickett, R.E.Y. – 1978
A study examined significant deliberate learning activities (as demonstrated in learning projects) which were related to spiritual growth. (Spiritual growth was defined in broad terms within which each interviewee interpreted his or her own concept.) Fifty persons between the ages of thirty-five and fifty-five and representing five groups (three…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adults, Enrichment