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Catalog of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

open access: yes, 2021
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNT's informational ...
University of North Texas. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
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Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe

open access: yes, 2023
This open access book challenges international policy ‘groupthink’ about lifelong learning. Adult learning – too long a servant of business competitiveness – should be reimagined as central to democratic society.

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A Sociological Framework to Reduce Aberrant Behaviour of School Students Through Increasing School Connectedness

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2021
A framework for understanding relationships between school connectedness and student aberrant behaviors is outlined that is synthesized from Merton’s insights into anomie and Bernstein’s theory of cultural transmission (which focuses on schools ...
Wolfgang A. Markham   +2 more
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Overcoming Obstacles for the Inclusion of Visually Impaired Learners through Teacher–Researcher Collaborative Design and Implementation

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2023
Teacher preparation to address the needs of disabled learners in mainstream mathematics classrooms is quintessential for the implementation of the inclusive educational policies that governments are often committed to.
Angeliki Stylianidou, Elena Nardi
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Adult Literacy and Basic Education Policies in a Comparative Perspective: Selected Findings from four Country Cases

open access: yesAS: Andragoška Spoznanja, 2019
Policies on adult literacy and basic education are gaining importance, especially since the results of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) revealed that a sizeable proportion of adults have low literacy ...
Alexandra Ioannidou, Carolin Knauber
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Lifelong learning policies, paradoxes and possibilities [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper argues that there are many ways of conceptualising lifelong learning and examines EU and Scottish lifelong learning policies in order to identify their underlying assumptions.
Tett, Lyn
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Senior Dance Experience, Cognitive Performance, and Brain Volume in Older Women

open access: yesNeural Plasticity, 2016
Physical activity is positively related to cognitive functioning and brain volume in older adults. Interestingly, different types of physical activity vary in their effects on cognition and on the brain.
Claudia Niemann   +2 more
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Improving obesity management training in family medicine: multi-methods evaluation of the 5AsT-MD pilot course

open access: yesBMC Medical Education, 2020
Background Quality, evidence-based obesity management training for family medicine residents is needed to better support patients. To address this gap, we developed a comprehensive course based on the 5As of Obesity Management™ (ASK, ASSESS, ADVISE ...
Thea Luig   +7 more
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
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Transfer from research to practice – A scoping review about transfer strategies in the field of research on digital media

open access: yesComputers and Education Open, 2022
Using digital media to improve teaching and learning is one of the most pressing challenges in education. This challenge can only be met if the transfer of research knowledge to practitioners is successful.
Hadjar Mohajerzad, Josef Schrader
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