Professional development is often used to increase teacher knowledge, impacting
studentlearning and achievement. While teachers want to attend continual …

Why in the latter part of the twentieth century did the idea of lifelong learning become so
important to policymakers across the industrialised world? Lifelong learning is not a new …

In educational research, a large number of studies on teacher professional development
(TPD) have been conducted in various parts of the world and a range of insights gained on …

This quantitative, nonexperimental, correlational study sought to determine whether a
relationship exists between family physicians' levels of self-directed learning readiness …

The aim of the study is to reveal and describe women's different ways of experiencing the
phenomenon of becoming mother in two aspects:“the conceptions on becoming mother” and …

In this thesis, I argue that in order to keep up to date with knowledge, technology and clinical
procedures, professional practitioners need to continue to learn throughout life and build on …

This study examined how Malay women learn to lead in institutions of higher education
within a Malaysian socio-cultural context. The purpose of this study was to develop a deeper …

The association between Christianity and youth work is evident to anyone who looks for it.
Indeed, since the 1960s practitioners can be found arguing over whether it ought to have a …

This thesis investigates the informal/incidental learning of Frontier College volunteer
labourer-teachers through an analysis of data collected from qualitative interviews …

Women preparing for men's occupations. A Phenomenology is an in-depth investigation into
the phenomenon of learning among seven articulate and mature adult women enrolled in …