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Lewis, Cynthia L. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The ability to solve problems, think critically, and communicate effectively are necessary traits in law enforcement officers (LEOs). Individuals responsible for instructing LEOs must employ adult learning strategies to provide LEOs the opportunity to share ideas, experiences, beliefs, and knowledge. Discussion is one learning strategy that…
Descriptors: Police Education, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Adult Learning, Case Studies
Tanis, David J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Play and playfulness and their role in learning are researched extensively in early childhood education. However, as the child matures into an adult, play and playfulness are given less attention in the teaching and learning process. In adult education, there is very little research about play/playfulness and its significance for learning. Despite…
Descriptors: Play, Adult Education, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis
Abasi, Ali R.; Taylor, Maurice C. – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2007
Although video has long been used as a teaching aid in adult literacy and basic education, literacy researchers seem to have ignored the potential benefits of using video as a tool that could add rigour to research. Reporting on their field experiences of an adult literacy learning study in Canada, the authors provide a narrative account of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Videotape Recordings, Classroom Research
Keeton, Morris T.; Sheckley, Barry G.; Griggs, Joan Krejci – 2002
This document uses the findings of educational research and actual case studies to provide guidance on enhancing the learning of adults in higher education while reducing program costs in the context of increasing demands for demonstration of student learning outcomes and decreases in college and university resources. The novelty of the book is…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies
Foucar-Szocki, Diane; Mitchell, Randy; Larson, Rick; Harris, Laurie; Sherman, Nancy – 2001
This document presents a case study for an innovative session exploring the nature of learning and the relationship between action learning within academic programs in adult education/human resource development (HRD) and the higher education institutions that house them. The first two sections discuss the dilemmas confronting higher education and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Organization, Adult Learning, Case Studies
Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
The first volume of the 29th annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education contains plenary lecture and research forum papers as listed below. Short oral communications papers, poster presentations, brief summaries of discussion groups, and working sessions are also included in the volume. The plenary…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary School Mathematics, Semiotics, Mathematics Education