Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Adult and Continuing Education Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Higher Education (9)
- Teacher Education and Professional Development (9)
- Educational Administration and Supervision (6)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (6)
- Educational Leadership (5)
-
- Disability and Equity in Education (4)
- Higher Education Administration (4)
- Psychology (4)
- Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching (3)
- Curriculum and Instruction (3)
- Educational Psychology (3)
- Adult and Continuing Education Administration (2)
- Art Education (2)
- Arts and Humanities (2)
- Community College Leadership (2)
- Disability Studies (2)
- Early Childhood Education (2)
- Educational Methods (2)
- Elementary Education and Teaching (2)
- Accessibility (1)
- Business (1)
- Developmental Psychology (1)
- Educational Technology (1)
- Elementary Education (1)
- Human Factors Psychology (1)
- Human Resources Management (1)
- Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching (1)
- Language and Literacy Education (1)
- Institution
- Keyword
-
- Adult learning (6)
- Adult education (4)
- Identity (3)
- Professional development (3)
- Adult Learning (2)
-
- Adult development (2)
- Adult learners (2)
- Adult learning--Research (2)
- Community College (2)
- Education (2)
- GED (2)
- Higher education (2)
- Interpretative phenomenological analysis (2)
- Learning (2)
- Transformative learning (2)
- Women (2)
- Access to college (1)
- Action research (1)
- Adjunct Faculty (1)
- Adult (1)
- Adult Education (1)
- Adult basic education (1)
- Adult development and learning (1)
- Adult education--Massachusetts--Cambridge--Harvard University (1)
- Adult education--Research (1)
- Adult learner (1)
- Adult learning and development (1)
- Afro-Boricua (1)
- Agency (1)
- Andragogy (1)
Articles 31 - 34 of 34
Full-Text Articles in Adult and Continuing Education
Power And Authority In The Student-Instructor Relationship In A Restorative Practices-Based Graduate Program, John W. Bailie
Power And Authority In The Student-Instructor Relationship In A Restorative Practices-Based Graduate Program, John W. Bailie
Educational Studies Dissertations
This study examined power and authority in the student–instructor relationship in a restorative practices–based graduate program. This qualitative investigation utilized a narrative approach. Ten alumni of the International Institute for Restorative Practices master’s degree programs were engaged in a one-time face-to-face interview and document review of their final master’s degree capstone papers. A listening guide voice-centered method was used as the primary data analysis method. This study found that participants used highly consistent language when describing the teachers and professors who were most meaningful to them, regardless of life stage. The second finding was that participants had meaningful personal experiences …
Whatever Works: Teaching Adults With Learning Difficulties In Adult Basic Education Programs: A Dissertation, Susan Noyes Spear
Whatever Works: Teaching Adults With Learning Difficulties In Adult Basic Education Programs: A Dissertation, Susan Noyes Spear
Educational Studies Dissertations
Research indicates that significant numbers of adult learners who attend adult basic education (ABE) programs have learning difficulties and/or learning disabilities. However, most ABE teachers have not been trained to teach students with these complex learning needs. This qualitative study, conducted through an interpretivist/constructivist lens, used in-depth individual interviews to garner the voices and experiences of ten ABE teachers as they described how they identify and manage the learning needs of their students. Results showed that ABE teachers described their practice in terms of how they identified their students' learning difficulties; their perceptions of their identity and role as an …
Text And Texture: An Arts-Based Exploration Of Transformation In Adult Learning: A Dissertation, Enid E. Larsen
Text And Texture: An Arts-Based Exploration Of Transformation In Adult Learning: A Dissertation, Enid E. Larsen
Educational Studies Dissertations
This research explored the transformational and co-transformational potential of collage, assemblage and mixed media in an accelerated undergraduate adult course on imagination and creativity. The methods were qualitative and arts-based artist-teacher inquiry within a constructivist art class for ten, female adult learners. Informed by the researcher's living inquiry through visual auto-ethnography, a collagist methodology shaped the research, including syllabus construction, course delivery and data gathering. Process was an emergent and interpretative analytic tool, drawn from multiple perspectives of artwork and reflections by the students, and the multiple identities inherent to the artist-teacher researcher.
Oasis From Learn-To-Earn: Adult, Working-Class, Liberal Arts Graduates Make Meaning Of Their Learning Careers At Harvard, Suzanne C. Spreadbury
Oasis From Learn-To-Earn: Adult, Working-Class, Liberal Arts Graduates Make Meaning Of Their Learning Careers At Harvard, Suzanne C. Spreadbury
Educational Studies Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to learn from 18 adult students, all of whom grew-up working class and many of whom were living working-class lives as adults, the meaning of returning to school and earning a liberal arts degree from an open-enrollment program. Harvard Extension School (HES), which is part of a selective, elite institution: Harvard University. The educational research in the US is sparse on adult, working-class, liberal arts, students. Indeed, these students' experiences go mostly undocumented due to the agreed upon conclusion that adult students, in general, and working-class students, in particular, are more interested in job …