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Erlane K. Ghani Jamaliah Said Noraini Mohd Nasir 《美中教育评论》2008,5(5):17-26
This study attempts to identify the factors perceived to be important in choosing an Institution of Higher Learning （IHL） for distance learning. One thousand five hundred questionnaires were distributed to the first year students in the social sciences distance learning programs and 980 valid responses were received of Malaysian public university. The results show that the top three factors influencing their preferred institution are qualification recognition IHL, future career advancement, and personal satisfaction. The results of this study provide insights to the IHL, employers and academics on the nature and relative importance of the factors perceived important for adult learners in the selection of their preferred IHL. 相似文献
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Palle Rasmussen Anne Larson Pia Cort 《International Journal of Lifelong Education》2013,32(3):254-267
ABSTRACTDenmark has a strong and versatile tradition of adult education. Over a long historical period, adult education for public enlightenment and leisure, for continuing study and for vocational and professional competence have been developed, been made part of state policy and been used by citizens. But in recent years the public and political presence of Danish adult education has changed. While education policy issues generally abound in public and political debates, adult education is given much less attention than earlier. In this article, we trace the causes of this and conclude that it reflects a turn towards focusing on vocational types of adult education and a relocation of adult education policy to networks linking the state and the social partners. Drawing on theories of policy streams, policy networks and the competition state, we provide a historical analysis of Danish adult education reforms during the past two decades and document how the vocational turn has manifested itself. 相似文献
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YA O Lin-shuang QUE Zi-jiang 《美中教育评论》2007,4(5):32-38
This paper explored the adult student opinions on four types of English classroom activities （language learning; language acquisition; information convey; role play） and the relationship between the fondness degrees and their personality, test performance and motivation. It tumed out that the majority of students ranked all classroom activities a bit highly. However, most of them would like to be taught language forms rather than to communicate in English with others. Motivation came out to be the factor that leads to most of the significant differences in this research. Taking into consideration the focus of researches in China nowadays, the results seem to be out of place and deserve serious consideration and further research. 相似文献
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Ling-ling Jiang Bing-ling Zhang You-shi Liu 《Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B》2009,10(3):168-171
Celiac disease (CD) is a type of intestinal malabsorption syndrome, in which the patients are intolerant to the gliadin in dietary gluten, resulting in chronic diarrhea and secondary malnutrition. The disease is common in Europe and the United States, but only sporadic reports are found in East Asia including China. Is CD really rare in China? We examined 62 patients by capsule endoscopy for chronic diarrhea from June 2003 to March 2008. Four patients with chronic diarrhea and weight loss were diagnosed to have CD. Under the capsule endoscopy, we observed that the villi of the proximal small bowel became short, and that the mucous membrane became atrophied in these four patients. Duodenal biopsies were performed during gastroscopy and the pathological changes of mucosa were confirmed to be Marsh 3 stage of CD. A gluten free diet significantly improved the conditions of the four patients. We suspect that in China, especially in the northern area where wheat is the main food, CD might not be uncommon, and its under-diagnosis could be caused by its clinical manifestations that could be easily covered by the symptoms from other clinical situations, particularly when it came to subclinical patients without obvious symptom or to patients with extraintestinal symptoms as the initial manifestations. 相似文献
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Evan S. Smith 《The American journal of distance education》2013,27(2):53-65
Abstract This study examines faculty writing style in Web‐based courses aimed at adult learners, a key audience for university‐level courses. Taking into account independent‐study courses and others, the investigator conducted faculty interviews, looking at written and oral strategies implicit in teaching; print vs. Web formats; and adherence to educational philosophies. Faculty who were interviewed revealed minimal experience in both print and Web realms, minimal style differences beyond teaching netiquette or using occupational jargon, and adherence to active learning or social constructivism. 相似文献
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D. Jake Follmer Shin-Yi Fang Roy B. Clariana Bonnie J. F. Meyer Ping Li 《Reading and writing》2018,31(1):185-214
The current study examined the relations among key variables that underlie reading comprehension of expository science texts in a diverse population of adult native English readers. Using Mechanical Turk to sample a range of adult readers, the study also examined the effect of text presentation on readers’ comprehension and knowledge structure established after reading. In Study 1, ratings of situational interest, select reading background variables, and select measures of readers’ knowledge structure accounted for significant variance in comprehension. In Study 2, the knowledge structure metrics of primacy, recency, and node degree as well as several text ratings were found to be comparable across text presentation formats. Participants who read the text sentence-by-sentence obtained higher scores on measures of comprehension and provided higher ratings of situational interest than those who received the whole paragraph text at once. Knowledge structure measures for the sentence-by-sentence and paragraph formats were similar (68% overlap). We discuss implications for future research examining factors that underlie the successful comprehension of science texts. 相似文献
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John Walker 《International Journal of Inclusive Education》2013,17(2):189-205
This paper uses Bhabha's concept of colonial discourse to explore how the subject of the educational discourse concerned with the education of the adult unemployed is constituted by a variety of stereotypical representations. The paper examines in some detail a key policy text which appeared at a critical moment in the establishment of REPLAN, a UK policy initiative for the education of unemployed adults, in 1984. It explores how the problem of education for the unemployed adult was made visible, the first arena for analysis in Scheurich's ‘policy archaeology’. A number of ‘regularities’—race, gender, sexuality, pro‐fessionalization, class and governmentality—serve to constitute that problem and, to a lesser extent, its solution. Educational policy is seen as a highly problematic play of fantasy and materiality, where policy texts produce and perpetuate inequalities. This critical reading attempts to subvert official discourse on education and unemployment.
there is no reason at all why people should wander about in a loafing and idle manner; if they are not earning their living they ought to be put under some control. (Winston Churchill, 1909). 相似文献
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Peter Alheit 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1994,40(3-5):283-298
In the present age we are experiencing profound changes in the traditional patterns and phases that used to mark the course of a human life. Living a life has become a more problematic and unpredictable undertaking, a laboratory for developing skills whose usefulness is uncertain. This situation represents a challenge for adult education. In this article, the author argues the case for a biographical approach to learning, which has the capacity to change both the individual and the context in which learning takes place. He contrasts this with conventional education, where learning takes place within a stable context. Through the biological approach, learning processes can become voyages of discovery for both learners and teachers.
Zusammenfassung Gegenwärtig erleben wir tiefgreifende Veränderungen der traditionellen Lebensmuster und Phasen, die den Verlauf des menschlichen Lebens bis dahin prägten. Das Leben zu leben ist ein problematischeres und nicht voraussagbares Unternehmen geworden, ein Labor zur Entwicklung von Fähigkeiten, deren Nutzen unsicher ist. Diese Situation bedeutet eine Herausforderung für die Erwachsenenbildung. In diesem Artikel tritt der Autor für einen biographischen Lernansatz ein, der sowohl den Einzelnen als auch die Lernumgebung zu ändern vermag. Er stellt dies der konventionellen Bildung gegenüber, bei der in einem festen Zusammenhang gelernt wird. Durch den biographischen Ansatz können Lernprozesse sowohl für den Lernenden als auch für den Lehrer zu Entdeckungsreisen werden.
Résumé Nous vivons actuellement une transformation profonde des périodes et des modèles établis qui formaient traditionnellement les points de repère d'une vie humaine. Vivre sa vie est devenu une entreprise plus compliquée et imprévisible, un laboratoire pour acquérir des compétences dont l'utilité est incertaine. Cette situation jette un défi à la formation des adultes. L'auteur livre dans cet article les arguments pour une approche biographique de l'apprentissage, celle-ci étant à même de modifier à la fois l'individu et le contexte dans lequel l'apprentissage a lieu, l'opposant à l'éducation conventionnelle où le contexte de l'apprentissage est plus rigide. Grâce à l'approche biographique, l'apprentissage peut devenir un voyage de découverte à la fois pour l'apprenant et pour l'enseignant.相似文献
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Peter Mtika Frances Payne 《Educational research; a review for teachers and all concerned with progress in education》2013,55(4):436-452
Background:?This article reports on a mentoring programme which was implemented in selected Scottish secondary schools with the view to supporting students with school work, transition to further education/higher education, careers, and interpersonal skills. Mentoring students can enhance their academic, social, career and other outcomes. Mentoring relationships, when properly implemented, have been found also to yield positive results for mentors.Purpose:?This paper is an investigation into a school-based mentoring programme which was implemented in 6 selected Scottish secondary schools. In so doing, we hope to contribute to an evolving framework for designing and implementing successful school-based mentoring.Sample:?The sample for this study included 10 students aged between 16 and 17 years old in the second year of a broader 2-year business/education project, which aimed to promote student uptake of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers after secondary school. There were 11 mentors, who were drawn mainly from the science, health and the education sectors.Design and method:?Methodologically, this study was qualitative interpretivist in nature. Data collection involved focus group discussion and individual semi-structured interviews.Results:?The findings show mentee and mentor preparation, clarity of expectations, mentee–mentor matching, mentee motivation, appropriateness of meeting spaces and power relations, modes of communication including the use of social media, and the role of schools as essential conditions which influenced the quality of mentoring relationships.Conclusion:?The findings suggest that mentoring programmes involving students in school and ‘external’ adult mentors need to consider a range of factors to achieve success when designing and implementing mentoring. This paper raises important issues for example, communication using social media, which have implications for practice in business sector and school partnerships involved in school-based mentoring. 相似文献
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Enrique Pieck 《International Journal of Lifelong Education》2013,32(5):419-429
The aim of this article is to talk about the possibilities of work‐related adult education programmes within the context of developing countries. The focus of the analysis is on poor populations, particularly those dwelling in rural and marginal urban areas. The background comprises the challenges for productive incorporation, social exclusion, the relative absence of skill development programmes in these areas and the historical ineffectiveness of adult education programmes. In the light both of lessons drawn form several experiences carried out mainly in developing countries and insights coming from educational and developmental research, the article puts forward some theses that may serve as guidelines when carrying out work‐related adult education programmes, such as the need to stem from integral and inter‐institutional perspectives, to rely on sound strategies that can have a direct impact on both social and economic development, to learn from local contexts (knowledge and opportunities) and evaluate the potential within these spaces, to properly assess the different areas (health, housing, organization etc.) that are related to any social development process, and the importance of taking productive activities—work—as the axis and starting point of programmes. 相似文献
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In most European countries, the proportion of adult students among both full-time and part-time workers has increased significantly over recent decades. Undertaking paid work is also increasingly common among traditional students. The opportunities to work while studying depend largely on the role of employers in promoting learning. However, both theoretical frameworks and empirical studies typically focus on the behaviour of firms in providing training. The support of employers for formal adult education has remained a marginal topic. The aim of this article is to analyse the contributions of employers to the acquisition of higher education from the perspective of the adult learners; we investigated how employers support their staff in higher education studies. We also tried to identify which kinds of learners have a better chance of receiving various benefits. We used two different data-sets: quantitative data from a study of adult students in higher education and qualitative data from interviews with managers of small- and medium-sized enterprises and at least one employed participant in formal adult education, collected in the framework of the international research project Towards a Lifelong Learning Society in Europe: The Contribution of the Education System supported by the EU Sixth Framework Programme. 相似文献
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Mathias Finger 《Studies in Continuing Education》2013,35(1):24-30
The philosophical and theoretical background of this article is the recent debate in conventional education, highlighting problems with the subject‐person of education (e.g., Oelkers, 1987). This debate has its origins in the questioning by philosophers of the project of modernity, of its future (e.g., Habermas, 1985; Wellmer,1985), and of its subject‐person (e.g., Frank et ah, 1990). The philosophy of education is affected by this debate primarily for two reasons: first, the subject‐person is at the core of the project of modernity and therefore of the inseparably linked idea of conventional education. Second, modernity is in itself an educational project (e.g., Oelkers, 1983), for, if education fails to bring forth the enlightened and emancipated subject‐person, modernity also fails. Therefore, if there is today, as is generally admitted, a crisis of modernity, conventional education and its conception of the subject‐person, as well as the corresponding learning model are inevitably affected. This also applies to adult education, in so far as adult education refers to models of the subject‐person that are still deeply rooted in conventional education. 相似文献
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INTRODUCTION Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are members of the halogenated hydrocarbon class of lipophilic environmental endocrine disrupters that includes the dibenzofurans and dioxins. Their appearance in the ecosystem and in the tissues from wildlife, as well as documented cases of accidental poisoning led to the banning of their manufacture in 1977 (Tilson and Kodavanti, 1997). The PCBs continue to be of concern to biologists due to reports that exposure to relatively low levels… 相似文献
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This article focuses on emotional reactions to learning and assessment. It draws on a qualitative research project involving first-generation adult students on a foundation degree programme. Endorsing the notion of emotional reactions as situated in participants' lived power relations, we map out emotional patterns to Semester 1 and then explore in more detail, participants' particular emotional reactions to assessment. We found three key themes: higher education assessment as an unknown risk; assessment success ‘out of the blue’ and assessment as trauma and euphoria. A major aspect of the project was to offer socially constructed pedagogic developments in response to these themes and nurture emotion as positive energy for transformation. 相似文献
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Rogers Alan 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2020,66(1):123-125
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Adult learning is seen as a key factor for enhancing employment, innovation and growth. The aim of this paper is to understand the points in the life cycle at which adult learning takes place and whether it leads to reaching a medium or high level of educational attainment. We perform a synthetic panel analysis of adult learning for cohorts aged 25–64 in 27 European countries using the European Union Labour Force Survey. We find that investment across the life cycle by cohorts older than 25 still occurs: participation in education and training as well as educational attainment increase observably across all cohorts. We also find that the decline with age slows down, or is even reversed for older cohorts, for both participation in education and educational attainment. Finally, we can identify cross-country differences in approach. In Nordic countries, adult learning is achieved primarily through participation in education and training without adding to formal educational attainment. In central Europe, adult learning occurs primarily in the form of increasing educational attainment. In Ireland and the UK, a combination of both approaches to adult learning is observable. 相似文献
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We examined humans’ tool selections on stick-and-tube tasks similar to those used to study crows’ and other avian species’
physical cognition. In Experiment 1, the participants selected a stick from a set of 10 to retrieve a candy placed in a horizontal
tube. Although the stick that was selected depended on the distance to the candy, the participants generally did not select
a stick whose length was the same as the candy’s distance from the open end of the tube nor did they select the longest stick
in the set—two strategies that have been reported in crows. In Experiments 2 and 3, we used variations of the stick-and-tube
task to determine what factors in addition to the candy’s distance influenced the participants’ selections. The results showed
that tool selection depended on the stimulus context (i.e., the number and lengths of the alternative tools). 相似文献
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Daphne Greenberg Hye Kyeong Pae Robin D. Morris Mary Beth Calhoon Alice O. Nanda 《Annals of dyslexia》2009,59(2):133-149
There are not enough reading tests standardized on adults who have very low literacy skills, and therefore tests standardized
on children are frequently administered. This study addressed the complexities and problems of using a test normed on children
to measure the reading comprehension skills of 193 adults who read at approximately third through fifth grade reading grade
equivalency levels. Findings are reported from an analysis of the administration of Form A of the Gray Oral Reading Tests—Fourth
Edition (Wiederholt & Bryant, 2001a, b). Results indicated that educators and researchers should be very cautious when interpreting test results of adults who have
difficulty reading when children’s norm-referenced tests are administered. 相似文献