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Direct linkCremen, Suzanne Nanette – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2019
Vocation, as distinct from career, is not something one chooses but something to which one is called. Bringing a depth psychological perspective to debates around calling, I argue that surrendering the ego or personal will into a relationship with the unconscious psyche allows one's calling to emerge. Using a hybrid qualitative approach drawing on…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Career Choice, Psychology, Hermeneutics
McKenna, Victoria S.; Diaz-Cadiz, Manuel E.; Shembel, Adrianna C.; Enos, Nicole M.; Stepp, Cara E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: This study aimed to examine the relationship between a large set of hypothesized physiological measures of vocal effort and self-ratings of vocal effort. Method: Twenty-six healthy adults modulated speech rate and vocal effort during repetitions of the utterance /ifi/, followed by self-perceptual ratings of vocal effort on a visual analog…
Descriptors: Adults, Speech, Self Concept, Physiology
Laidi, Charles; Boisgontier, Jennifer; de Pierrefeu, Amicie; Duchesnay, Edouard; Hotier, Sevan; d'Albis, Marc-Antoine; Delorme, Richard; Bolognani, Federico; Czech, Christian; Bouquet, Céline; Amestoy, Anouck; Petit, Julie; Holiga, Štefan; Dukart, Juergen; Gaman, Alexandru; Toledano, Elie; Ly-Le Moal, Myriam; Scheid, Isabelle; Leboyer, Marion; Houenou, Josselin – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder under-diagnosed in adults. To date, no consistent evidence of alterations in brain structure has been reported in adults with ASD and few studies were conducted at that age. We analyzed structural magnetic resonance imaging data from 167 high functioning adults with ASD and 195 controls.…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Brain
Download full textLumina Foundation, 2019
The nation faces an urgent and growing need for talent. To meet that need, many more people must earn college degrees, workforce certificates, industry certifications and other high-quality credentials. That is why Lumina Foundation works to ensure that, by 2025, 60 percent of Americans hold a credential beyond high school -- a quality credential…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Attainment, Race, Ethnicity
Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Li, Hongli – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Research with school-age readers suggests that the contributions of reading and language skills vary across reading comprehension assessments and proficiency levels. With a sample of 168 struggling adult readers, we estimated the explanatory effects of decoding, oral vocabulary, listening comprehension, fluency, background knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Skills, Reading Difficulties
Pickard, Amy – Educational Policy, 2021
This qualitative research article explores barriers experienced by a group of African American and Latinx adults who sought to enroll and stay enrolled in a publicly funded literacy class and how these barriers were related to policy. Barriers included (a) an inadequate number and type of available classes, (b) a lack of community awareness of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Barriers
Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Li, Hongli – Grantee Submission, 2021
Research with school-age readers suggests that the contributions of reading and language skills vary across reading comprehension assessments and proficiency levels. With a sample of 168 struggling adult readers, we estimated the explanatory effects of decoding, oral vocabulary, listening comprehension, fluency, background knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Skills, Reading Difficulties
Scott, Heidi K.; Holyoke, Laura; Carr-Chellman, Davin; Hammes, Leslie; Kroth, Michael; Watson, George; Vineyard, Rusty – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
The intentional teaching application of leadership theories is not often addressed in leadership development programs comprising the field of adult education. The purpose of this study is to understand more deeply the quality, characteristics, and practices of profound leaders. This is an exploratory, empirical study, interviewing seven…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Leadership Effectiveness
Engel, Alexandra; Hanulíková, Adriana – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Previous research has shown that talker identity and speaking style affect the processing of morphosyntactic violations. The present study examined whether speaking style modulates comprehension and subsequent production of case variants in German prepositional phrases across the life span. To this end, we conducted a sentence repetition and…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Speech Communication, German, Phrase Structure
Schiller, Emese; Dorner, Helga; Szabó, Zoltán András – Educational Gerontology, 2020
This paper outlines findings from a research project on Hungarian foreign language (FL) teachers' conceptualizations of helping senior language learners to develop their autonomy in learning. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in order to explore the applied instructional approaches to teaching older adults and developing their learner…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Older Adults, Adult Educators, Language Teachers
Kozakai, Rumi; Nishita, Yukiko; Otsuka, Rei; Ando, Fujiko; Shimokata, Hiroshi – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2020
Physical fitness is one of the key factors in healthy aging. Although physical fitness is widely recognized to decline with age, age-related decreases in the individual dimensions of physical fitness in later life are less clear. Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to describe the age-related changes in six fitness components covering a…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Adults
Grotlüschen, Anke; Stammer, Christopher; Sork, Thomas J. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
Professionalization in adult education is necessary, and several initiatives are underway to improve the professional situation as well as the competences and skills of adult educators. The relevance and importance of adult education is often stated. Large-scale assessments such as the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Professionalism, Teaching (Occupation)
Sekerci, Reyhan; Yörük, Tayfun – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
The purpose of this study was to reveal the views of administrators working in institutions providing adult elderly education on teacher leadership. Ten administrators, who were determined via convenience sampling which is among purposeful sampling methods, participated in this study using qualitative research method. The study was conducted in…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Older Adults, Adult Education, Administrator Attitudes
Amundsen, Diana – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2020
This article offers a historical analysis of the past sixty years of adult learning in Aotearoa New Zealand and critically appraises events which have shaped today's context. Drawing on a substantial body of research by key adult educators, researchers and scholars, the review assesses historical, socio-cultural, and political factors that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Adult Education, Educational History
Hardy, Sophie M.; Wheeldon, Linda; Segaert, Katrien – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Structural priming refers to the tendency of speakers to repeat syntactic structures across sentences. We investigated the extent to which structural priming persists with age and whether the effect depends upon highly abstract syntactic representations that only encompass the global sentence structure or whether representations are specified for…
Descriptors: Syntax, Phrase Structure, Older Adults, Young Adults
