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Baumgartner, Lisa M.; Jin, Bora; Kim, Junghwan – Adult Learning, 2023
Older adults are a growing population. This article reviews the literature on older adults in "Adult Learning" from its inception in 1989 through 2020. Topics focus primarily on program reports, programmatic learning needs, personal reflections, and classroom methods. Key findings include that "older adult" is not well-defined…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Adult Education, Literature Reviews, Educational History
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Jarošová, Eva; Lorencová, Hana; Pubalová, Katerina; Šedivý, Lukáš – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2017
Teaching methods in MBA and Lifelong Learning Programmes (LLP) for managers should be topically relevant in terms of content as well as the teaching methods used. In terms of the content, the integral part of MBA and Lifelong Learning Programmes for managers should be the development of participants' leadership competencies and their understanding…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Business Administration Education, Masters Programs, Teaching Methods
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Kinsey, Sharon B. – Journal of Extension, 2011
Action Learning can be effectively used in both large and small businesses and organizations by employees, stakeholders, or volunteers through this "learning by doing" approach to evaluate an issue or issues of importance to the organization. First developed in the 1940s, Action Learning has increasingly been used as a method to explore questions…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Teaching Methods
Suratno, Tatang; Iskandar, Sofyan – Online Submission, 2010
Although reflection is seen as a means to improve teacher professionalism, its practice in Indonesia has a scant regard until the lesson study program was implemented around the year 2005. In Indonesian context, lesson study is a process by which teachers and teacher educators work together to critically improve the quality of classroom practice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflective Teaching, Teaching Methods, Reflection
Burgoyne, Ursula; Hull, Oksana – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
This study examined the extent to which English language, literacy and numeracy teachers used classroom management strategies to meet the needs of adult Sudanese refugee learners. While teachers met the needs of these learners insofar as they coincided with those of other refugee groups, the highly oral language culture of these learners appeared…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Oral Language, Program Content, Adult Literacy
Orr, Margaret Terry – Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, 2006
This paper is based on a cross-sectional survey comparison of preparation experiences and outcomes using a sample of principals who completed one of five innovative leadership preparation programs between 2000-2005 and a national comparison sample of principals. The primary questions are: (1) How do innovatively-prepared principals and other…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Leadership Effectiveness, Principals, School Administration
LaPointe, Michella; Davis, Stephen – Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, 2006
In an effort to increase the knowledge about professional development programs that promote strong instructional leaders, the Wallace Foundation recently commissioned a study of innovative principal professional development programs and the policy and funding mechanisms that support them. In fall 2003, the foundation awarded a grant to a team of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Change, Master Teachers, Curriculum