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AJAL Volume 60 / Number 1 / April 2020
This edition of AJAL is available for purchase in pdf format ALA Members can download a free copy of this edition by logging in to the member area of the ALA website here: AJAL Past Editions Share this page.
Is society capable of learning? Beyond a metaphysical foundation
Author: Ya-hui Su National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism, Taiwan Edition: Volume 56, Number 3, November 2016 Summary: There is an assumption that any contemporary society should become a learning society to maintain stability in the face of change. Although…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: individuals, intersubjectivity; learning; learning society, society
Reasons for the slow completion of Masters and Doctoral degrees by adult learners in a South African township
Author: Masilonyana Motseke University of South Africa Edition: Volume 56, Number 3, November 2016 Summary: The aim of the study was to investigate the reasons why adult learners took longer than required to complete their Master’s and Doctoral degrees. A questionnaire…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: African adult learners, Master’s and Doctoral degrees., Slow completion
Group work oral participation: Examining Korean students’ adjustment process in a US university
Author: Jung Yin Kim University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Edition: Volume 56, Number 3, November 2016 Summary: This study examines, from a sociocultural perspective, the factors that explain why a group of seven Korean students attending an undergraduate business program in…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: cultural interaction, group work, Korean students, sociocultural features
Contemporary constructivist practices in higher education settings and academic motivational factors
Author: Dorit Alt Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel Edition: Volume 56, Number 3, November 2016 Summary: This study was aimed at assessing the relationships between college students’ pre-entry factors, self-efficacy and motivation for learning, and the perceived constructivist…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: constructivist learning; academic self-efficacy; academic motivation
Emotional highs in adult experiential learning
Author: Sandris Zeivots University of Technology, Sydney Edition: Volume 56, Number 3, November 2016 Summary: Despite knowing that positive emotional experiences tend to be beneficial for adult learning, our incomplete understanding of the emotional system rarely allows us to incorporate emotion…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: adults, emotional highs, Experiential learning, hermeneutic phenomenology, positive emotions
The meanings of learning as described by Polish migrant bloggers
Author: Monika Popow Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Edition: Volume 56, Number 3, November 2016 Summary: This paper addresses the meanings given to learning by Polish migrant bloggers. It presents the result of an analysis of ten blogs, written by Poles living…
A farmer becomes a social pedagogue: A psycho-societal approach
Author: Karsten Mellon Roskilde University, Denmark Edition: Volume 56, Number 3, November 2016 Summary: In Denmark various non-traditional students are mature-age students who already have some kind of a vocational background. When applying to do a professional degree, most of them…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Adult Learner, becoming, life history, non-traditional, psycho-societal approach, social pedagogue
Older adult education: new public pedagogy in 21st Century Taiwan
Author: Ya-hui Lee, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Edition: Volume 55, Number 3, November 2015 Summary: The lifelong learning concept of “never too late to learn” advocated by Confucius has gradually become rooted in the lives of Taiwanese adults and…
