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Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza – Adult Learning, 2025
This article, a conceptual and theoretical piece, opens a window on "playful learning" as a philosophy of education and a suite of diverse pedagogical approaches, methods, and techniques. The paper criticizes the serious ambience of adult education with its high levels of instrumentalism and performativity. It argues for playful learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Play, Ideology, Adult Learning
Lyman, Linda L.; Gardner, Dianne C. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2008
Definitions are central to both the practice and the power of leadership. This deceptively simple supposition was the basis for an elective doctoral leadership seminar at Illinois State University designed and taught by Lyman in Fall 2005, and replicated by Gardner in Spring 2007. The authors featured the same texts and stimulated students'…
Descriptors: Seminars, Leadership Training, Leadership, Teaching Methods
Beaudin, Bart P.; Kincaid, Jim – 1988
ALF is an acronym for Adult Learning Facilitator, a designation that may be warranted to build a distinguishable identity for adult educators. If a professional considers climate setting and other facilitative behaviors as a major priority before and during any learning event, then he or she should be considered an ALF. If a professional has…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Competence
Callender, Willard D., Jr. – 1989
Based on the assumption that something is fundamentally wrong at its definitional roots about the concept of adult education upon which the profession is organized, this paper identifies seven troubling characteristics of the profession. These characteristics, which stem from failure to root the definition in philosophical foundations, are (1) the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Callender, Willard D., Jr. – 1989
After recapitulating certain problems with current conceptions of the profession of adult education and stating a design problem for the reinvention of the field, this paper argues that adult education can best be seen as "self-education." A beginning definition and concept of that term is described, along with a model and supporting guides for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
McGough, Robert L.; Vincent, John J. – 1980
This monograph is one of 12 that address various topics in the area of CETA/education linkages. They were designed to provide those individuals interested in the development and implementation of CETA/education linkages with information that will serve to enhance the quality of existing programs and facilitate the efficient and effective…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Definitions
Tanaka, Kazutoshi; Evers, Michael B. – 1999
The term "ergonagy" is formed from the Greek terms "ergon" (work) and "agogos" (lead). Ergonagy integrates concepts associated with education and training related to preparation for, and performance of, work. Pedagogy may be defined as the art and science of teaching, and andragogy may be defined as the art and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Andragogy, Case Studies
Stein, David – 2000
Critical reflection blends learning through experience with theoretical and technical learning to form new knowledge constructions and new behaviors or insights. Through the process of critical reflection, adults come to interpret and create new knowledge and actions from their experiences. It is generally agreed that critical reflection consists…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Classroom Techniques, Critical Thinking
Lerch, Carol – 2002
College students enrolled in developmental mathematics and elementary algebra courses typically make the same mistakes repeatedly. Moreover, the same mistakes are made every semester, regardless of the students involved. Lev Vygotsky's concept of fossilization, which refers to the phenomenon of learning being lost over time and only behaviors…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Algebra, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Browne-Ferrigno, Tricia; Muth, Rodney – Journal of School Leadership, 2003
Cohorts are increasingly popular management tools for recruiting students into professional education programs, for organizing their learning experiences, for promoting performance-based outcomes, and for developing and using innovative teaching-learning practices. This article examines issues about the effects of learning in cohorts by focusing…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Administrator Education, School Administration, Principals
Imel, Susan – 2003
The objectives of adult civic education were examined, and recommendations for its effective practice were offered to educators. The following purposes of adult civic education were discussed: inform learners of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship; explain how citizens participate in building a society by making informed decisions; and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Citizenship Education
Kallenbach, Silja; Viens, Julie – 2002
The Adult Multiple Intelligences Study was the first systematic effort related to multiple intelligences (MI) theory in adult literacy education. The study's findings regarding MI theory served as the foundation for a study of MI theory's implications for adult literacy practice, policy, and research. The study was conducted across 10 different…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Raiskums, Bernadine W. – 2001
This document, which is designed to help individuals entering adult education graduate programs in North America, contains definitions of nearly 538 contemporary adult education-related terms and practitioners. The terms included were selected based on a review of more than half of the 139 papers published in the proceedings of the 41st Annual…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
Teeters, Jim – 2001
This document is designed to help adult educators implement the Teach with Style model of teaching adults. The introduction discusses how adults learn and the best way to teach them. Chapter 1 explains the tenets of the Teach with Style model, which is based on four distinct instructor styles. Chapters 2-5 detail the strategies and activities…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Kerka, Sandra – 2002
A somatic approach to education implies education that trusts individuals to learn from and listen to the information they are receiving from the interaction of self with the environment. Somatic or embodied knowing is experiential knowledge that involves senses, perceptions, and mind-body action and reaction. Western culture has been dominated by…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning