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Moodie, Gavin; Wheelahan, Leesa; Bragg, Debra D. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This article focuses on adult working learners who attend postsecondary institutions in Canada and the United States. We identify how these institutions deliver curriculum and instruction in the form of career-technical education (CTE) and vocational education offering occupational credentials. In British Columbia and the U.S., most vocational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Employees, Postsecondary Education
Wang, Qianran – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This article introduces Kominkan and its practice on Japanese social education and how it facilitates Japanese adult education and lifelong learning in local communities. Historically, social education was understood as all education that promotes social development and societal progress. Kominkan, as Japanese social education institutions for…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Self Determination
Pappas, James P.; Jerman, Jerry – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
This chapter considers many of the major directions, issues, and themes that will play an important part in the future of coaching adult populations.
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Educational Trends, Educational Practices, Trend Analysis
Contextual Influences on Financial Behavior: A Proposed Model for Adult Financial Literacy Education
Way, Wendy L. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
This chapter presents an ecological model that highlights the importance of considering multiple contextual influences on behavior as well as other factors that may impact learning when designing research and practice aimed at enhancing financial capability.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Money Management, Adult Learning, Educational Practices
Wax, Dorothy M.; Wertheim, Judith – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
This chapter focuses on the use of coaching for adult learners, the specific characteristics adults bring to the learning environment, and strategies for dealing with the obstacles adult learners may face.
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Adult Development, Adult Education, Helping Relationship
Borg, Carmel; Mayo, Peter – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
The sites of adult education practice are multiple, and museums feature regularly among these sites (Chadwick and Stannett, 1995, 2000). This chapter explores the potential of museums as sites for critical "public pedagogy." It foregrounds the role of adult educators as co-interrogators with adult learners of what is generally perceived…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Wilson, Arthur L. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2009
This article discusses three broad themes--reflection, power, and negotiation--that are evidenced in all of the articles in this issue. In this article, the author tries to transgress the articles at some middling altitude to seek some broader thematics. His observations about reflection, power, and negotiation do transcend individual efforts,…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Ethics, Educational Practices, Reflection
Parrish, Marilyn McKinley – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
Cultural institutions are rich locations for adult learning. Despite apparent differences in mission, they are similar in many ways. Similarities include social and historical development, educational philosophy and objectives, epistemological tensions and contestations, and challenges associated when attracting and educating adult visitors. In an…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Reflection, Cultural Centers, Social Change
Lund, Carole L. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
This chapter describes white privilege and how it impacts the learning environment. Included are actual examples of white privilege from practice and how enforcing white privilege results in racism. The author hopes this chapter will provide a foundation and increase awareness of white privilege and the adult and continuing educators' role in…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Whites, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Belzer, Alisa; Ross-Gordon, Jovita – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
Since the 1980s, educators in adult basic education and special education have speculated that a substantial if unknown percentage of adults have specific learning disabilities (LDs) and have sought to identify and address effectively the needs of these learners. Two rarely intersecting bodies of historical literature on LDs provide the background…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Learning Theories, Learning Disabilities, Adult Basic Education
Cueva, Melany – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
What does it mean to provide community-based health education that respects adults of diverse cultures and ways of being in the world? How does one nurture meaningful learning opportunities that awaken possibilities as a catalyst for understanding, conversation, and action? In this article, nurturing place, sharing power, heart listening, talking…
Descriptors: Health Education, Adult Basic Education, Community Programs, Adult Learning

Pratt, Daniel D. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1993
Examines andragogy through four questions: the meaning, antecedents, facilitation, and purposes of learning. Highlights two persistent tensions in adult learning: freedom versus authority and human agency versus social structures. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Andragogy, Educational Practices

Flannery, Daniele D. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1994
"Universal" theories imply that a single group represents everyone. Universality in adult education theories about motivation and adult learning perpetuates racism and sexism and should be challenged through alternative perspectives for knowledge building. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Educational Practices, Power Structure
Eisen, Mary-Jane – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2005
The rapid growth in the number of older adult learners presents new challenges and opportunities for adult educators. These include facilitating the development of individuals as they make the transition to their later years and of American society as it struggles to reenvision aging.
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Adult Education, Midlife Transitions