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Albertyn, Ruth – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
In this conceptual article, I present a hierarchical view of the iterative process of learning and development as applied to the doctoral context and make a conceptual case for Doctoral Intelligence based on an analogous link to Cultural Intelligence. There are four proposed Doctoral Intelligence domains: Knowing (developing expertise), Doing…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Intelligence, Thinking Skills
Bérénice Darnault – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book traces the motivational dynamics embedded within lifelong foreign language learning trajectories, examining the factors which generate and sustain motivation throughout a learner's life. Embracing a complexity approach, it views motivation as a long-term individual process that evolves along a narrative continuum, developing over the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Lifelong Learning, Learning Motivation
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Panthalookaran, Varghese – Higher Education for the Future, 2022
Rendering learners future-ready has always been one of the primary purposes of education. It makes a critical appreciation of the emerging societal scenarios a necessary prerequisite for defining essential features of the conduct of education at any age. VUCA is an acronym that describes some salient features of modern day, characterized by…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Entrepreneurship, Learning Motivation, Intellectual Development
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Stockwell, Glenn – English Teaching, 2021
Mobile-assisted language learning has expanded beyond relatively humble beginnings of replicating computer-based activities assigned in formal language learning contexts, and it now often consists of a complex mix of formal and informal learning activities that take place at different times and places throughout learners' daily lives. Decisions…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Anthonysamy, Lilian; Koo, Ah Choo; Hew, Soon Hin – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
This paper aims to examine how self-regulated learning strategies (SRLS) can foster the enhancement of digital literacy in digital learning to increase efficiencies in human capital for sustainable development in lifelong learning. Digital disruption in the education sector is unavoidable. The results of this study will be useful for educators and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Human Capital
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Liu, Shijuan; Wang, Fu – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2018
This paper reports a qualitative study on the Chinese language learning trajectories of non-native Chinese instructors as successful Chinese language learners. While some literature has been found on studying good learners of English and other languages, there is a lack of research on studying good learners of the Chinese language, especially on…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Deakin Crick, Ruth; Huang, Shaofu; Ahmed Shafi, Adeela; Goldspink, Chris – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2015
Understanding students' learning dispositions has been a focus for research in education for many years. A range of alternative approaches to conceptualising and measuring this broad construct have been developed. Traditional psychometric measures aim to produce scales that satisfy the requirements for research; however, such measures have an…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Learner Engagement, Personality Traits, Lifelong Learning
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National Academies Press, 2018
There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important implications for individual learning, schooling, workforce training, and policy. In 2000, "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition" was published and its…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Educational Environment, Brain, Cultural Influences
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Requejo Osorio, Agustin – Convergence, 2008
This paper deals with specific characteristics of elders,1 bearing in mind both their cognitive and their non-cognitive aspects. Regarding their way of learning, the paper refers to basic principles for this group of people: active learning, situational analysis, their experience, awareness that they have--and need--specific time and rhythm for…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Foreign Countries, Profiles, Adult Educators
Cropley, A. J. – Saskatchewan Journal of Educational Research and Development, 1976
States that if educational equality is defined, not in terms of equal learning facilities and equally well qualified teachers, but in terms of equal outcomes, equality has not been achieved. True equality implies recognition of learning as life-long process, for the purpose of self-fulfillment. (Author/RW)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged, Equal Education, Learning Motivation
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Pillay, Hittendra; Boulton-Lewis, Gillian – Journal of Education and Work, 2000
Students in construction technology (n=65) described their general and subject-specific conceptions of learning. Among general conceptions were lifelong and self-directed leaning; subject-specific conceptions included self/career development and obtaining grades to get a degree. Differences between the two were influenced by context and…
Descriptors: Construction Industry, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning Motivation
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Barron, Brigid – Human Development, 2006
Adolescents often pursue learning opportunities both in and outside school once they become interested in a topic. In this paper, a learning ecology framework and an associated empirical research agenda are described. This framework highlights the need to better understand how learning outside school relates to learning within schools or other…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Ecology, Lifelong Learning, Educational Environment
Tugbiyele, E. A. – Adult Education Now, 1972
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
Kolcaba, Raymond F. – Curriculum Review, 1980
The author categorizes the stages and skills of independent inquiry: the motivation to inquire; skills essential to setting up an inquiry; and modes of concluding an inquiry or verifying a hypothesis. He draws curriculum implications for developing independent learners. (SJL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Independent Study, Inquiry, Learning Motivation
Hey, M. H. – Canadian Vocational Journal, 1976
Considers the nature and motivational drives of the adult learner and some of the reasons he begins and continues in a renewed educational adventure. (HD)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
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