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Hoggan, Chad; Hoggan-Kloubert, Tetyana – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2023
This article presents a framework for ethics for radical and transformative education. Taking as a starting point ethical perspectives by which educators of adults are justified in imposing upon, coercing, and manipulating adult learners in the name of social justice, this article highlights the necessary connection between pedagogies and learning…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Ethics, Educational Change, Adult Educators
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Shandell Houlden; Elizabeth Lange – Canadian Journal of Education, 2025
This article presents the initial research and development phases of a transformative climate education program for adults in a semi-rural community on southern Vancouver Island. Using design-based research (DBR), we developed a workshop series informed by adult and lifelong education (ALE), transformative learning, and the theoretical frameworks…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Environmental Education, Transformative Learning, Climate
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Tiina Korhonen; Sorella Karme; Johanna Airaksinen; Noora Laakso; Laura Salo – Cogent Education, 2024
In this study, we examined educational change and teachers' continuous learning from the perspective of teachers' transformative agency within the context of digitalization. We also examined the transformative needs of teachers participating in a specialization program related to digitalization and educational change, as well as experiences and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change, Teacher Education
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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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O'Brien, Tom – Education & Training, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences and responses of ten adult literacy organisers (ALOs) from Dublin, Wicklow and Kildare to the growing influence of neoliberalism and the commodification of adult literacy as a skill and function of the economy. The research argues for a greater focus on literacy as a social practice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Educational Change, Resistance to Change
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Michelson, Elana – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2021
In this commentary, Elana Michelson responds to Chad Hoggan and Tetyana Kloubert's critique of Michelson's "The Ethical Knower: Rethinking Our Pedagogy in the Age of Trump" (2019). Michelson concludes that Hoggan and Kloubert are right to call attention to the reemergence of fascist discourse and action across much of the globe and to…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Progressive Education
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Franzenburg, Geert – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2017
When compared to education with children, adolescents and students, adult education has particular opportunities and challenges, depending on stronger biographical influences: adults have developed their own learning style and learning competence and apart from more formal learning opportunities facilitated through digital learning and/or learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Sustainability, Transformative Learning, Educational History
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Suoranta, Juha; Hjelt, Nina; Tomperi, Tuukka; Grant, Anna – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
The article contributes to the academic discussion on Paulo Freire's pedagogical thinking as a basis for reinventing contemporary non-formal education. In Finland, Freire's transformational/liberatory theory of adult learning was applied as a framework for developing an adult educational model called Life Skills for All. The pilot project's case…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Informal Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy
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Grummell, Bernie; Murray, Michael J. – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2015
Further education typically represents the vocational, technical and practice-based forms of education, but this is now being repositioned in a neo-liberal era that is driving a performance-based and market-orientated vision of education in the Republic of Ireland and elsewhere. The implacable drive of neo-liberal economics in everyday practice is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Employment Potential, Neoliberalism
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Boucouvalas, Marcie, Ed.; Avoseh, Mejai, Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Undergraduate Students
DiBiase, Warren J. – 2000
Without teacher change, a successful educational reform is either incidental or superficial. Therefore, it is very important to understand the nature of teacher change for science educators. Mezirow's transformation theory, a constructivist theory, provides a theoretical basis for both teacher learning and teacher change. This paper presents an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Learning Processes
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McQuiggan, Carol A. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2007
A literature review was conducted to investigate the adult education and faculty development literature and research to discover what is known about changes or transformation in teaching assumptions and beliefs when faculty prepare to teach online or when they are engaged in online teaching, and to uncover any gaps in research involving these…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Beliefs, Online Courses, Literature Reviews
Loughlin, Kathleen A. – 1994
Research was conducted to gain insight into both the facilitators of consciousness-raising and the nature of this emancipatory process. Consciousness-raising was defined as a transformation of consciousness in which individuals experience critical reflection and action that develops a deepened consciousness of their situation leading them to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitude Change, Change Agents, Cognitive Structures
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, Lisa Laskow – 2001
This book proposes the possibility of "extraordinary change" in individuals and organizations and suggests a source of "boundless energy" for bringing those changes into being. That source is freed by removing internal barriers to change within oneself. It provides personal experiences of transformational learning to introduce…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitude Change, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Levine, S. Joseph, Ed. – 1997
This proceedings contains 29 presentations: "Meaning of Participating in Technology Training" (Cynthia S. Blodgett-McDeavitt); "Applying Actor Network Theory to Curricular Change in Medical Schools" (Karen V. Busch); "Politics of Humanism" (Mary Katherine Cooper); "Reasons for the Nonparticipation of Adults in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals)
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