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Sabrià-Bernadó, Betlem; LLinàs-Audet, Xavier; Isus, Sofia – International Journal of Training and Development, 2017
The main objective of this study is to identify the determinants that influence user demand for lifelong learning in institutions of higher education. Qualitative methodology was used to develop an instrument and a quantitative approach was used for the remainder of the study. After a literature review and in-depth interviews with experts in…
Descriptors: Educational Demand, Lifelong Learning, Higher Education, Qualitative Research
Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate the benefits of higher education in mid-life from the perspective of life course agency. Studies concerning the benefits of degree-oriented higher education have been mainly conducted using survey questionnaires and quantitative methods. In order to gain a more comprehensive picture, this qualitative…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Outcomes of Education, Higher Education, Midlife Transitions
Bridger, Kath – Higher Education Academy, 2015
This research project was commissioned by the UK Higher Education International Unit (IU) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in June 2014 to explore academic perspectives on the outcomes of outward mobility at undergraduate, postgraduate and research levels for UK domiciled students, and to consider how best to facilitate the take up as well…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, Employment Potential
Hastings, Lindsay J.; Griesen, James V.; Hoover, Richard E.; Creswell, John W.; Dlugosh, Larry L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
Preparing college students to be active contributors to the next generation is an important function of higher education. This assumption about generativity forms a cornerstone in this mixed methods study that examined generativity levels among 273 college students at a 4-year public university. MANCOVA results indicated that college students who…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Role of Education, Mixed Methods Research
Day, Deborah A.; Lane, Terry – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
Student development has connections to important academic purposes in higher education (King, Baxter Magolda, Barber, Kendall Brown & Lindsay, 2009). In particular, a growing body of work on self-authorship, a social-constructive theory of development, has demonstrated relevance to the purposes of higher education (Baxter Magolda, 2001; King…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Role
Yeung, Alexander Seeshing; Li, Bingyi; Wilson, Ian; Craven, Rhonda G. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
Much research has acknowledged the importance of self-concept for adolescents' academic behaviour, motivation and aspiration, but little is known about the role of self-concept underpinning the motivation and aspiration of higher education students in a specialised field such as medical education. This article draws upon a programme of research…
Descriptors: Role, Self Concept, Medical Education, Social Environment
Aldous, David C. R.; Sparkes, Andrew C.; Brown, David H. K. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2014
This paper explores the layered transitional experiences of a semi-professional athlete named Jack (a pseudonym) between the fields of professional sport and further and higher education. Our analysis is framed by the quadripartite framework of structuration and focuses on Jack's "in-situ" practices at his college and university in order…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Higher Education, Student Experience, Student Adjustment
Le, Anh – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The main purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the experiences of Vietnamese international students who returned to Vietnam after graduation from a U.S. higher education institution (henceforth, the repatriates). Areas to be explored include the transitional period, perceptions of the relevance of the U.S. education to their current…
Descriptors: Vietnamese People, Qualitative Research, Higher Education, Foreign Students
Spronken-Smith, Rachel; Buissink-Smith, Nell; Bond, Carol; Grigg, Gabrielle – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2015
In this article, we sought a relation between orientation to higher education and curricular experiences, and elucidated the nature of transformative curricular experiences. Twenty-four graduates from humanities and science degrees in the year 2000 were interviewed approximately five years later to obtain their retrospective views on the purpose…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Higher Education, Student Experience
Kuntz, Daniel E. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
While professors and coaches have the ability to enable or impede student athletes' educational success in college, studies that address the perspectives of coaches and professors about their interactions with student athletes are limited. This study aimed to understand (a) the ways in which professors and coaches who act as institutional agents…
Descriptors: Athletes, Cooperation, Athletic Coaches, College Faculty
Aydin, Selami – Qualitative Report, 2012
No data has been found about the influences of the ERASMUS program on Turkish pre-service teachers of English who participated in the ERASMUS Mobility Program. Thus, in this study the researcher aims to evaluate the ERASMUS Mobility Program regarding its contributions to the progress of Turkish pre-service teachers of English and the problems they…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Qualitative Research, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries
Griffiths, Vivienne; Thompson, Simon; Hryniewicz, Liz – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
This paper focuses on the professional and academic development of mid-career teacher educators from two universities in England. The objectives of the study were to analyse and compare the career experiences of teacher educators; in particular, to identify stages of development, landmark events and contextual factors affecting professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Faculty Development, Professional Identity
Stirling, John – McGill Journal of Education, 2013
This article presents an analysis of the development of a trade union education program in Sierra Leone in the geo-historical context of British colonialism. It places the argument in relation to the contradictory trends of trade unionism more generally and alongside their antagonistic cooperation with capitalism. It discusses the limits and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Union Members, Land Settlement, Power Structure
Gordon, Sue; Nicholas, Jackie – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
In this study we investigate the conceptions of mathematics bridging courses held by students enrolled in these courses at a major Australian university. We report on the participants' responses to email-interview questions about the mathematics bridging courses to describe a two-dimensional outcome space of variations in awareness about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Mathematics Instruction, College Students
Jones, Anna – International Journal for Academic Development, 2011
This paper illustrates the use of narrative as a means of examining the complex array of factors that shape academic practice. Through focusing on the personal, using the narrative voice of the participants, a series of situated perspectives on the journey towards academic life, and more specifically teaching, is presented. The paper argues that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interviews, Personal Narratives