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Paula Guimarães; Rosanna Barros – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
This article focus on what is and isn't 'new' in the most recent European Union (EU) key policy document for Adult Learning (AL), because it claims (in its own title) that it will constitute a basis for a 'new' agenda. As this document has been much disseminated to Member States, we think it is important to analyse its evidence of the 'new'…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Adult Learning, Adult Education, Foreign Countries
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Palle Rasmussen – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
The German tradition of critical theory (often called the Frankfurt School), represented by such authors as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Oskar Negt, have given crucial contributions to social and cultural theory in investigating and conceptualizing contradictory conditions of modern Western societies. This paper will discuss the ways in…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Adult Education, Educational Policy, Adult Learning
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Alan Tuckett – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
For more than 50 years, governmental and independent reviews have published proposals for strengthening adult learning opportunities, showing a remarkable consistency in the advice offered to government. They have, however, had little more than short-term impact on policy or provision. Since the early 2000s, under the influence of neoliberal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Educational Policy
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Lisa Mckenzie – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
Higher education should be a social good for everyone and, despite the intentions of university policy on inclusion and diversity with schemes on widening participation, the truth is that for working-class students, university is still a place where they encounter prejudices and feelings of exclusion. This article uses the method of…
Descriptors: Working Class, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Higher Education
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Paolo Federighi; Francesca Torlone; Francesco De Maria – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
Participation rate in adult and continuing education (ACE) is one of the multiple indicators of distributive justice. Nonetheless, the literature of recent decades has turned it into a cardinal principle and value. Expansive paradigm that envisages the progressive and generalised development of participation rate in ACE is examined in this…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Andragogy, Adult Education, Adult Learning
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Chun-Ting Yeh; Kai-Chi Huang; Pei-Yun Chen – Educational Gerontology, 2024
Since 2008, the Taiwan Ministry of Education has been encouraging government agencies and private organizations to establish Active aging learning centers (AALCs). This has led to the engagement of AALCs across communities in Taiwan. We explored AALC organizers' experiences with negotiations during program planning. Semi-structured interviews were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Adult Learning
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Michael Agyemang Adarkwah – Adult Learning, 2025
Adult learners are a neglected species in the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) era. The sweeping changes brought by GenAI in the educational arena have implications for adult learning. GenAI in education will usher in a world of adult learning that will be radically different from its predecessor. However, how adult learners will apply…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Man Machine Systems, Natural Language Processing, Adult Learning
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Peter Mayo – International Review of Education, 2024
This article examines the key role that adult learning and education (ALE) has played and continues to play in addressing the challenges faced by critical engagement with identities and crossing borders in the Mediterranean region. Despite the great cultural, economic and educational diversities characterising the region, the author explores…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
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Anke Grotlüschen; Alisa Belzer; Markus Ertner; Keiko Yasukawa – International Review of Education, 2024
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), launched by the United Nations in 2015, established ambitious targets to be achieved by 2030, including in education. SDG 4, which focuses on ensuring "inclusive and equitable quality education and promot[ing] lifelong learning opportunities for all", attracted attention from the adult education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Sustainable Development, Lifelong Learning, Case Studies
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Emily R. VanZoest; Dion T. Harry; Micara Lewis-Sessoms; Audrey J. Jaeger – Innovative Higher Education, 2025
A significant demographic shift in community colleges reveals that more than half of enrolled students are adults aged 25 and older. In response, states are instituting reconnect programs aimed at recruiting and reengaging adult learners. Despite these initiatives, existing processes and practices within community colleges often inadequately…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Adult Learning, College Presidents
Kamia F. Slaughter; Nadrea Njoku – Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, UNCF, 2024
In January 2024, UNCF's Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute (FDPRI) published "Adult Learner Initiative External Report," which outlined key findings and recommendations from an evaluation of the Adult Learner Initiative. To supplement and extend that work, Ascendium Education Group collaborated with FDPRI and Lumina Foundation to…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, African American Students, Rural Areas, Rural Education
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Linda E. Morris – Adult Learning, 2024
During CONFINTEA VII's Panel 4: "Preparing adults for the future of work" and throughout the conference, participants grappled with crafting a "transformative agenda," where adult learning and education (ALE) prepares adults for future workplaces, education is viewed as an individual right and a common good, and sustainable…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Sustainability, Futures (of Society), Education Work Relationship
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Jo-Anne Botha; Ingrid Potgieter – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2024
This study explores whether a range of socio-demographical factors predict adult learner self-directedness in the context of South African open and distance e-learning higher education (ODeLHE). We observe significant differences between socio-demographical groups in the sub-dimensions of the Adult Learner Self-Directedness Scale. The study…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Personal Autonomy, Distance Education, Higher Education