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Abdulkadir Kirbas; Mesut Bulut – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2024
The lifelong learning strategy is one of the most significant strategies suggested for bringing up modern persons in the appropriate circumstances. This study attempts to identify, in terms of several characteristics, the lifelong learning tendencies of the Turkish language, literature, and Turkish teacher candidates. 297 students studying Turkish…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, College Students, Literature, Preservice Teachers
Turan Çakir – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2025
Recently, it has been seen that rapid changes have started to alter perspectives on education. With the development of information technologies, this change has started to make continuous education compulsory. The paradigm of continuous change and development in education is Lifelong Learning. Raising individuals who are inclined towards lifelong…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Lifelong Learning, Demography
Tomas Butvilas; Deimante Žilinskiene; Remigijus Bubnys; Jordi Colomer; Dolors Cañabate; Marjan Masoodi – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The importance of metacognitive awareness in learning, on the one hand, and the necessity of considering demographic variables, on the other hand, have encouraged the researchers to conduct this research. This research aims to initially determine the relationship between the level of metacognitive awareness and demographic variables of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, College Students, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals)
Jones, Emily; Hall, Sophie; Evans, Stephen – Learning and Work Institute, 2022
For more than 25 years, the Adult Participation in Learning Survey has provided a unique insight into adult learning across the UK. It adopts a deliberately broad definition of learning, reflecting the fact that learning is about so much more than formal courses and qualifications. The good news is that, after a decade of declines during the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Participation, Surveys, Social Differences
Oriane Nermond; Corin Egglestone; Lorenzo Manetti; Emily Jones – Learning and Work Institute, 2024
The Adult Participation in Learning Survey provides unique insights into adult learning across the UK. It adopts a deliberately broad definition of learning, reflecting the fact that learning is about much more than formal courses and qualifications. The 2024 survey shows just over one half (52%) of adults have taken part in learning in the last…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Surveys, Adult Learning
Sentürk, Sener; Duran, Volkan – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2020
Life-long learning competencies, skills and attitudes are of having significance for education processes. The study was designed based on the correlational survey model. Population consists of 354 trainers in Public Education Centers in Samsun. In terms gender, there was a significant difference in lack of regulation and lack of curiosity…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Educators, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
Ueangchokchai, Choosak – Higher Education Studies, 2022
Thai society is undergoing conflicts in the relationship between new generations and the elderly caused of the different frameworks of beliefs. The wisdom transfer process, an approach used in old times, is a solution to such conflicts. However, currently, it is used as a support mechanism. This research aims to develop a wisdom transfer process…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Generational Differences, Older Adults, Conflict
Bahtic, Klara; Višnjic Jevtic, Adrijana – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2020
This research focuses on young children's understandings about economic, social, and environmental sustainability. Participants were 43 children, aged from 3 to 7 years of age, recruited from two kindergartens in Croatia. Children's ideas were discussed through semi-structured interviews that focused on saving, spending, recycling, justice,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Kindergarten, Sustainable Development
Siribhorn Bhuranahirunn – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2024
This research aimed to (1) study the interaction between groups of people in the community in the collaborative learning of people with different ages, (2) create a model for promoting lifelong learning of people of different ages based on community lifestyle, and (3) experiment the lifelong learning model of people with different ages based on…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Age Differences, Lifelong Learning, Interaction
Jones, Emily; Hall, Sophie; Evans, Stephen – Learning and Work Institute, 2021
It is 25 years since the first adult participation in learning survey, and this one is published during Learning and Work Institute's centenary year. This year's survey shows that 44% of adults have taken part in learning in the last three years. That's an increase on the record lows found in 2019 and marks the first rise in participation since…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Participation, Surveys, Social Differences
Evans, Stephen – Learning and Work Institute, 2023
People invest £7.3 billion a year and £55 billion worth of time in learning. This is more than the Government and employers invest in learning and skills, but there are stark inequalities between groups. This report provides the most detailed snapshot seen of which groups of adults are investing in learning, and how much, and lays bare stark…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning, Participation, Age Differences
Creely, Edwin; Southcott, Jane; Creely, Luke – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2022
Compared with other age groups, the literacy practices and creative outputs of older adults (50+ years) have been seldom researched. Generally, research about older adults has tended to focus on decline and agential passivity, rather than potentiality. In this article, we report on a small ethnographic study of older Australians who were part of a…
Descriptors: Literacy, Poetry, Age Groups, Age Differences
Sen, Nihal; Yildiz Durak, Hatice – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The aim of this study is to examine the lifelong learning tendencies of English teachers, their professional competencies, and their self-efficacy in integrating technology. For this purpose, a descriptive survey model was used in this study. The participants of the research consist of 561 English teachers working in institutions (private and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy
Zhao, HuiJun; Zhang, Nini; Guo, Karen – Educational Studies, 2022
The notion of learning dispositions has extended conceptions of learning in early childhood education to incorporate dimensions such as habits of mind and patterns of behaviour. This paper conceptualizes learning dispositions through a Chinese lens, and with conceptualizing this notion, explores associated pedagogical practices. The data are drawn…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cognitive Processes, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2022
Demographic trends and technological change increase the need for adults to learn and adapt to changing job content and working conditions. Despite this, most EU Member States have consistently underperformed in their efforts to reach targets for adult participation in lifelong learning. In 2010, the EU set a target of 15% of adults participating…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Educational Trends