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Direct linkSakurai, Yusuke – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2022
This article examines how students' subject knowledge acquired in short-term international courses (SICs) developed while engaging in university studies in the year following their SICs. It also explores factors associated with their engagement and disengagement. Two interviews with a 1-year interval with 25 students revealed their transformations…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Study Abroad, Course Content, Knowledge Level
Michelle Tan, Yuen Sze; Owen Lo, Chih-Shen; Alharbi, Mashael – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
This case examined five students' experiences of participating in a film-mediated community-based discourse about local Asian Canadian communities, where students viewed and created documentary films in a fourth-year English course that focused on diasporic foodways. Phenomenographic perspectives guided an analysis of the students' experiences;…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Food, Asians, Immigrants
Carr-Chellman, Davin J.; Kroth, Michael – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2017
Spiritual disciplines are practices of transformation intentionally pursued through the day-to-day actions of deeper living. The spiritual disciplines are conceptualized here in their relationship to profound learning. The authors contend that profound learners exhibit certain dispositions, such as curiosity, that facilitate continual growth.…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Transformative Learning, Learning Processes, Intentional Learning
Download full textBin Kadir, Mohd Amin; Arifin, Syamsul; Latipun; Fuad, Ahmad Nur – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study describes adult learners' understanding in learning Islam using andragogy approach in which the study was conducted in Kampung Siglap Mosque and Al-Zuhri Higher Learning Institute. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) educate his companions of who are adults from the shackles of "jahiliyyah," spiritual and intellectual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Student Attitudes
McCartney, Robert; Boustedt, Jonas; Eckerdal, Anna; Mostrom, Jan Erik; Sanders, Kate; Thomas, Lynda; Zander, Carol – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
"Threshold concepts" are concepts that, among other things, transform the way a student looks at a discipline. Although the term "threshold" might suggest that the transformation occurs at a specific point in time, an "aha" moment, it seems more common (at least in computing) that a longer time period is required.…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Computer Science Education, Transformative Learning, Scientific Concepts
Merriam, Sharan B.; Caffarella, Rosemary S.; Baumgartner, Lisa M. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2006
In this updated landmark book, the authors have gathered the seminal work and most current thinking on adult learning into one volume. This book addresses a wide range of topics including: Who are adult learners? How do adults learn? Why are adults involved in learning activities? How does the social context shape the learning that adults are…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Van Damme, Dirk – 1999
A conceptual framework for analyzing participation in adult education was developed. Adult education participation was considered a specific kind of strategic behavior. The term "strategic" was defined by proceeding from Pierre Bourdieu's concept of "educational strategy," which permits consideration of the structural…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Competence, Continuing Education
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory
Nesbit, Tom, Ed. – 2001
This document contains 29 papers and 7 roundtable presentations from a Canadian conference on the study of adult education. The following papers are among those included: "Cultivating Knowledge" (Mike Ambach); "Subsistence Learning" (Rose Barg); "Non-Governmental Organizations and Popular Education Programs" (Bijoy P.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
