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Direct linkFrancesco Bolzonella; Maurice de Greef; Mien Segers – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
This study explores the impact of adult basic education programs aimed at enhancing social inclusion for immigrant learners in the Netherlands. Basic literacy skills are vital for performing everyday tasks and building human capital, which in turn facilitates employment and skill acquisition. Low adult literacy is often associated with social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Basic Education, Inclusion, Immigrants
Download full textRodriguez, Diego – International Journal of Educational Leadership and Management, 2017
At the heart of the educational vocation is a drive to influence, to meaningfully affect the learning and development of others. For adult educators working in higher education, daily activities--from teaching classes to supervising student research to attending faculty meetings to sitting on advisory boards--are full of opportunities to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Influences, Adult Educators, Higher Education
Demerouti, Evangelia; van Eeuwijk, Erik; Snelder, Margriet; Wild, Ulrike – Career Development International, 2011
Purpose: This study seeks to examine the effects of a "personal effectiveness" training on both assertiveness and Psychological Capital (PsyCap) that were monitored before and after the training. Design/methodology/approach: In addition to self-ratings, other-ratings were assembled to explore two ways in which they can contribute to the…
Descriptors: Training, Assertiveness, Individual Psychology, Intervention
Leaper, Campbell; Robnett, Rachael D. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2011
Robin Lakoff proposed that women are more likely than men to use tentative speech forms (e.g., hedges, qualifiers/disclaimers, tag questions, intensifiers). Based on conflicting results from research testing Lakoff's claims, a meta-analysis of studies testing gender differences in tentative language was conducted. The sample included 29 studies…
Descriptors: Females, Familiarity, Testing, Assertiveness
Buschman, John – Academe, 2009
"Academe"'s readers know the importance of academic freedom and the history of the (American Association of University Professors) AAUP's defense and promotion of academic freedom for faculty. Librarians have an analogous set of interlocking policies concerning their ethics and related issues. The author has always been proud that the American…
Descriptors: Intellectual Freedom, Academic Freedom, Ethics, Librarians
Bauerle, Ellen – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
A recent report from the Modern Language Association, "Standing Still: The Associate Professor Survey," unfortunately passed over an important aspect of women's rise through the professorial ranks: how they move through the process of monograph publication, especially in comparison with male colleagues. As an acquiring editor in the scholarly and…
Descriptors: Females, Scholarship, Womens Education, Womens Studies
Ryan, Ellen Bouchard; Anas, Ann P.; Mays, Heather – Educational Gerontology, 2008
Within a communication predicament of aging and disability framework, this study examined the impact of two types of contextual variation on perceptions of older adult assertiveness within problematic service encounters. Young (N = 66) and older (N = 66) participants evaluated conversational scenarios in which a visually-impaired older woman…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Older Adults, Females, Visual Impairments
