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Showing 1 to 20 of 10874 for “"Adult"”.
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Adult Daughters
<p>Adult Daughters explores the complexities of the human experience through short and long-form fiction.</p>
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Assessment practices of adult educators in Mamelodi Adult Learning Centers
This study explores the assessment practices of adult educators in Mamelodi Adult Learning Centers using a qualitative methodology. The study recognizes that assessment is an important activity within the education and training enterprise since it can be used to improve the quality of teaching as …
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Barriers to adult learning
… been developed to study the learning phenomenon. Adult learning is a distinct aspect of this phenomenon, having particular characteristics and principles.The reasons that deter adult learning are various and act at two stages. Firstly, they prevent students form performing to their full capacities …
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Narcissism, time perspective and well-being in the adult and older adult population
… on the Subjective Well-being of Older Adults: A Systematic Review</b><br/><br/>The impact of time perspective on subjective well-being has been well established in the literature but there has been much disagreement as to how this relationship changes as individuals age. Much of the …
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The Benefits of Adult Piano Study as Self-Reported by Selected Adult Piano Students.
… study was to assess the benefits that selected adult piano students reported receiving from their study. Adult piano students (N = 711) from 24 states representing all geographic regions of the U.S. each completed a questionnaire containing 31 individual benefit items. These benefits were …
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Dimensions Underlying First Impressions of Older Adult Faces by Young and Older Adult Perceivers
… and have the potential to influence how older adults (OAs), a vulnerable population, are treated by others. The present study used a data-driven approach to examine dimensions underlying FIs of OAs and whether those dimensions vary by perceiver age. In Experiment 1, young adult (YA) and OA …
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Adult education as professional practice
… psychology, that professional practitioners in adult education are those who see themselves (and indeed are also seen) as agents of the integration of (a) adults' learning from their experiences (the authenticity aspect), with (b) the values of 'education' (the integrity aspect). That is, such …
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Communication Among Emerging Adult Siblings
<p>The study sought to explore the emerging adult sibling dyad through qualitative<br />inquiry. By doing so, the collected data bring new meaning to why and how emerging adult siblings communicate. Also, by including both siblings, this study sought to highlight a different perspective of sibling …
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Degree Attainment Among Adult Learners
… discover knowledge about degree attainment among adult learners. This qualitative inquiry is about what 15 bachelor's degree recipients over the age of 25 felt contributed to their efforts to attain the bachelor's degree.</p><p>This study contains professional research and expert material on …
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Adult neoplastic spinal cord compression
Spinal cord compression ( SCC ) constitutes a neurological emergency, and if left untreated, can result in permanent irreversible neurological dysfunction. Disabilities can range from mild weakness to complete quadriplegia with the inherent associated mental, physical and emotional suffering .The …
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Social provisions in adult friendship
… study examined the social provisions that adults felt they received from friendship as well as what they desired from friendship and explored discrepancies between what was received and desired. The social provisions were distinguished as: attachment, social integration, reliable alliance, …
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Depression and Self-esteem in Adult Children of Alcoholics and Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
… they are simply a subset of a larger group of adult children from dysfunctional families. It was hypothesized that participants from dysfunctional families would have more depression and less self-esteem than participants from functional families, regardless of parental alcoholism, and that …
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Learning Theory in Adult Discipleship: A Quasi-Experiment Assessing Adult Learning in a Sunday School Context
… with the learning that takes place in the adult learning context of adult Sunday school classes in Southern Baptist churches. Using Lev Vygotsky's concept of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), a test of learning was created and administered to adults from ages 18 to over 65 in four …
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The impact of adult basic education and training (ABET) on the life of the adult learner
… to enhance the educational capacity of adults through the adult basic and education training programme. The purpose of this study is to explore and examine the impact of Adult Basic Education and Training on the lives of adult learners. Historically disadvantaged communities, now have …
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A Story of the Young Adult Story of Children's and Young Adult Literature, Culture, and Media
… doctoral thesis, entitled A Story of the Young Adult Story of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Culture, and Media, is an anticolonial and decolonial analysis of childhoods and youth under colonial occupation in Puerto Rico at the turn of the twenty-first century. As a mixed genre project, …
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