Essays about: "adult informal learning"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words adult informal learning.

1. 1. Bildung in the language classroom. Reading literature to stimulate young people's desire to learn English

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Lärarutbildningsnämnden

   Author : Thomas Mellen; [2023-08-01]
   Keywords : reading; literature; bildung; didaktik; professional self-determination;

   Abstract : The power of reading literary texts to stimulate language learning, critical thinking and communicative competence is well established, yet young people are reading less literature than they did ten years ago. The aim of my research is to find out what teachers and other educational professionals can do in order to support young people to take up the habit of regular deep reading. READ MORE

3. 2. Considering biographical learining through transformative experiences. Observing an adult’s self-recognised learning and development through experience

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

   Author : Oscar Funeskog; [2022-11-25]
   Keywords : adult informal learning; self-awareness; situatedness; biographical learning informed by transformational learning processes; ; meta-cognitions;

   Abstract : Aim: This thesis aims at aiding a better understanding of how a person reacts to and understand their own role and place in changing life contexts. The thesis provides a groundwork for understanding the meta-cognitive processes of self-reflective biographical learning perspectives. READ MORE

4. 3. Connecting to nature in pre-school : a study of place experiences in a low-social economic area related to children´s development

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of People and Society

   Author : Amanda Guimarães Gabriel; [2021]
   Keywords : childhood place relations; sense of place in childhood; sense of place in childhood; children s development; outdoor place relations; nature and children s development; learning; low-social economic environments; vulnerable environments; narrative map;

   Abstract : Outdoor environments and nature could positively support pre-school children living in lowsocial economic urban environments. By valuing the role of lived experiences, this research explores how outdoor places and nature could support and counteract the widespread inequities that affect these children. READ MORE

5. 4. An Alternative Currency for Education : A Comparative Case Study of Learning Practices within Time Banks

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik

   Author : Alice Lida Taherzadeh; [2018]
   Keywords : Time Banks; Informal Education; Lifelong Learning; Deschooling; Mutual Aid;

   Abstract : This study aims to investigate learning practices within Time Banks in Spain. Time Banking is a community currency concerned with the exchange of services between members using time as the currency. READ MORE

6. 5. New Voices in the Woods : A Study of Children’s Experience of the Forest as an Outdoor Educational Space.

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande

   Author : Silvia Cont; [2018]
   Keywords : Outdoor Educational Space; Forest; Positive Outcomes; Children’s perspective; Forest School; Kindergarten Outdoor Oriented; Ethnographic Research Methods; Six-steps Thematic Analysis; Connection; Bonding and Action Towards Nature.;

   Abstract : There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the importance of outdoor learning spaces in educational practice with children. However, previous studies of the outdoor learning spaces have omitted to address the young children’s perspectives on the outdoor environments that they experience as a part of the Forest School’s educational approach. READ MORE