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Discovering why adults do not participate in formal adult education
Institutions of formal education have a survival interest in the question of why most adults do not participate in more formal adult education. This study, using a descriptive approach, gathered evidence from 16 adults (8 males and 8 females) who had not participated in formal education in the past …
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Participation and Non-Participation in Formal Adult Education: A Study of Deterrents for an Organizational Leadership Development Program
… are increasingly supporting employee's educational pursuits, especially when continuing education is used as a strategy to achieve organizational goals or groom future executives. Fulmer and Wagner (1999) found that best-practice organizations developed their own leaders and that senior …
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Perspectives on Introversion and Engagement in the Adult ESL Classroom
Adult learners who display introverted tendencies in formal English as a Second Language (ESL) learning environments are a heterogeneous group whose unique needs have gone relatively unexplored in the field of education. Research indicates that ESL instructional strategies typically viewed as “best …