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Annika Heuer; Luis Serratos-Sotelo; Andreas Motel-Klingebiel – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2025
In this paper, we aim to understand how perceptions of adult learning and continued vocational education and training (CVET) are related to participation in these activities. Specifically, participation within the previous 12 months in different kinds of adult learning and CVET is analysed, distinguishing between (1) formal, (2) non-formal…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Career and Technical Education, Foreign Countries
Whitney Butler – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There were concerns in both quantity and quality of principal candidates regarding training experiences and principals being prepared to lead schools. Research was limited when it came to principal preparation programs (PPPs) training rural, East Tennessee school principals to become instructional leaders and school district leaders providing…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
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Kalpana Gupta – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to understand the ways in which meditation practice can be used as an online pedagogical method based on adult learners' experiences with various forms of meditation practices. To arrive at this purpose, the researcher found it necessary to gather data about frequency of use, preferences, and related transformative…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Adult Learning, Biofeedback
Yasmine Sedeek – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Mastering the phonological aspects of a second language (L2) poses significant challenges for adult learners, often affecting their intelligibility in acquiring that language (Derwing, Munro, & Wiebe, 1998). McAllister (1997) has highlighted L2 learners' struggles in perceiving and producing novel segmental features, which is corroborated by…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning, Arabic
Maryann Orawczyk – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study explored how supervisors in student affairs describe their supervisory learning journey. Supervision is an important facet of the student affairs profession, yet there is an apparent lack of intentional supervisory training and development for these professionals. This study endeavored to understand how supervisors in…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Supervisory Training, Administrator Attitudes, Lifelong Learning
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Tiffany M. Devol; Qi Sun – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
Adults with ADHD maintain some success in higher education but underperform their non-ADHD peers despite having normal intelligence. This study explored the essence of the lived experiences of female graduate students with ADHD navigating their academic journeys in graduate school. Using a phenomenological approach through the lens of…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Females, Graduate Students, Student Experience
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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
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Francis Kiweewa; Bannet Asingura; Sheila Achabo; Lydia Nakiyingi; Ezra Musingye; Juliet Kizanye; Gertrude Nassanga; Lynnette Ann Mukasa; Betty Mwesigwa; Hannah Kibuuka; Henry Tumwijukye – Journal of Research Administration, 2024
Background: Expertise in scientific and grant writing are essential in health science research and practice. Quality scientific and grant writing are uncommon in Uganda which is partly responsible for the low quality and quantity of research outputs. To address this, the Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP)implemented Strengthening…
Descriptors: Grants, Scientists, Novices, Scientific Research
Michael Emerson Newton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The landscape of globalization, technological advancements, and dynamic business environments underscores the importance of organizational training and development needs and opportunities. There is a growing demand for ongoing education and skills enhancement in the workplace to keep pace with the rapid changes in technology, processes, and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Nonprofit Organizations, Instructional Effectiveness, Job Training
Timothy M. Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The field of adult learning theory, or how adults learn, has exploded in recent years yielding increased knowledge and awareness of how adults learn. While preachers do have a wide variety of ages in their congregations, most of the people they preach to are adults. This dissertation looks at preaching and adult learning theory and what the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Barriers, Theories, Religion
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Gabriel J. Cler; Samantha Bartolo; Jiwon Kim; Anna Nolan; Sophia Banel – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that impacts approximately 7% of the population and is characterized by unexplained deficits in expressive and/or receptive components of language. A common procedural learning task, serial reaction time (SRT), has been used to develop models of the basis of DLD.…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Language Impairments, Sequential Learning, Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Mary Kate Eckhardt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research seeks to define and understand the experience of adult learners in the Experiential Learning (EXL) Program at MTSU. It looks at how this EXL program prepares these students for the workforce. This has made the role of EXL programs imperative to help deal with the issue of graduates having the proper competency levels for employment.…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Experiential Learning, Work Experience Programs
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Yugant Patra – Commission for International Adult Education, 2024
Adult literacy is an essential subject to examine given its impact on human development indicators. A significant gap exists as nation-states progress on these indices, especially in developing economies. National governments and international and bilateral development organizations seek to improve adult literacy metrics for the developing world…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Economic Development
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Lu, Yu; Chen, Chen; Chen, Penghe; Yu, Shengquan – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2023
In comparison to children and young students, adult learners usually exhibit more complex learning behaviors and psychological needs during the learning process. Designing social robots for adult learners has, thus, been a challenging task and a far less explored area, and it requires the great efforts from both technical and theoretical…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Learning, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
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Maurer, Markus – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
This article analyses the development and implementation of policies that aim at improving the 'recognition of prior learning' (RPL) in the vocational education and training (VET) systems of Sweden and Switzerland. It argues that the evolution of RPL policies and schemes needs to be analysed in relation to educational expansion, which creates…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Prior Learning, Qualifications, Foreign Countries
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