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Direct linkFaulk, Carrington M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As emerging adults transition into the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) workforce, it is essential to understand the factors that predict successful occupational identity achievement, as automation will impact human occupational identity crises. This descriptive cross-sectional study implemented a correlation design to determine the degree to…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Adult Students, College Students, Student Behavior
Peer reviewedPehin Dato Musa, Siti Fatimahwati; Pg Hj Idris, Pg Siti Rozaidah – International Journal of Training Research, 2023
This study aims to evaluate the concept of entrepreneurial identity in the AgroBiz youth agripreneur program and the potential implications of agripreneurship in shaping the future of farming in Brunei. An exploratory study was applied to gain insight into agriculture students and course facilitators' perceptions of agripreneurship training using…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Young Farmer Education, Agricultural Education, Self Concept
John Joseph Chacon – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how post 9/11 military veterans described their transitions from military service to postsecondary education in the southwestern United States. The problem statement was: It is not known how post 9/11 military veterans describe their transitions from military service to postsecondary…
Descriptors: Veterans, Military Service, Postsecondary Education, Veterans Education
Jamin C. Rowan; Mat D. Duerden – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
Educators can help adult learners experience identity transformation and initiate lifelong learning by designing curriculum centered upon transformative learning objectives (TLOs) and experiential learning competencies (ELCs). TLOs point learners to the specific ways of thinking, feeling, and being in the world to which a course or other learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Study Abroad, Transformative Learning
Kristin M. Pope – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study sought to understand the essence of calling development in emerging adults enrolled at university through an interpretative phenomenological analysis of nine semistructured interviews at a small mid-western public university. The conclusions of the study suggest the essence of calling development for this population is the process of…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, College Students, Adult Students, Life Satisfaction
Kellie A. H. Carstensen – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2025
This study examined how informal Conversations in English (CIE) groups helped migrants gain cultural knowledge about communicating in the United States and how the CIE groups facilitated the process of language socialization. The Ethnography of Communication (EC) and Cultural Discourse Analysis (CuDA) were used to understand the connection between…
Descriptors: Socialization, Informal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Pepka Boyadjieva; Petya Ilieva-Trichkova – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
The article synthesizes ideas from the capability approach, the embeddedness approach, and Nancy Fraser's three-dimensional scale of justice and develops a theoretical framework for understanding subjective well-being (SWB) as a positive functioning. It also proposes an instrument for measuring SWB and its relationship with participation in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Nonformal Education, Participation, Well Being
Cairns, Abbie – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2023
Money has been the dominant way to understand the motivation for artists to teach. Written from an adult community learning (ACL) perspective, this research is part of a wider study interrogating artist-teacher identity transformation. This paper explores the motivations for becoming an artist-teacher in ACL, questioning the assumption that…
Descriptors: Artists, Teachers, Motivation, Self Concept
Cairns, Abbie – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2023
This paper explores the enterprises artist-teachers in adult community learning (ACL) engage with and how these form their identity. This is significant to consider as artist-teachers in ACL are overlooked in the published literature. ACL is comprised of community-based learning delivered by local authorities and general further education…
Descriptors: Artists, Adult Education, Art Teachers, Professional Identity
Gleiman, Ashley – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2023
Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) programs are unique to the institution and the students they serve. While a variety of best practices persist, the need for academically rigorous and credible programs is ever-present as institutions evolve to keep up with the growing needs of adult learners today. This article provides a case study overview of…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Portfolio Assessment, Best Practices, Adult Learning
Kamburov, Teodora – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This multiple-case study sought to understand how adult students with disabilities demonstrate grit in the pursuit of higher education. Through in-depth, semi-structured interviews, this study found that adult students with disabilities demonstrate grit through seeking to understand their own disabilities and the impacts of those disabilities on…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Students with Disabilities, Higher Education, Academic Persistence
Karpen, Samuel C. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
In an appeal to establish transformative learning's (TL) boundaries, Kegan (2000) implored researchers to identify "what from transforms?" As a social psychologist, I am particularly drawn to theorists who identify the self as the form that transforms; however, I argue that a model of the self that specifies how it is represented in…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Self Concept
Outlaw, Sheila – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A large percentage of women veteran students at a local 4-year university are transitioning from active duty to the role of adult learner on a college campus, and some have overcome barriers, such as inadequate childcare, lack of transportation, and financial aid issues and completed their educational goals. Unfortunately, some women veterans are…
Descriptors: Females, Veterans, Adult Students, Student Adjustment
Grace J. Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults can be significantly impairing across various life domains. As manifestations of ADHD in adulthood become increasingly recognized, however, research has started to address diagnostic challenges inherent in the clinical evaluation of adult ADHD. One such challenge is the reliance on…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Adult Students, Disability Identification, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Suha M. Al-Hassan; Natasha Duell; Jennifer E. Lansford; Kenneth A. Dodge; Sevtap Gurdal; Qin Liu; Qian Long; Paul Oburu; Concetta Pastorelli; Ann T. Skinner; Emma Sorbring; Laurence Steinberg; Sombat Tapanya; Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado; Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong; Liane Peña Alampay; Dario Bacchini; Marc H. Bornstein; Lei Chang; Kirby Deater-Deckard; Laura Di Giunta – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
An important question for parents and educators alike is how to promote adolescents' academic identity and school performance. This study investigated relations among parental education, parents' attitudes toward their adolescents' school, parental support for learning at home, and adolescents' academic identity and school performance over time…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Performance, Parent Education, Foreign Countries
