The rapid development of online distance programmes has increased the popularity of higher education among adult students. Despite the suggested benefits of online higher education (OHE), adults may experience various challenges and barriers when adapting to it. Yet, research te…
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The term impostor phenomenon emerged in the late 1970s during the second wave of the feminist movement in the United States, and interest in the phenomenon has continued over the past four decades, with research examining the causes and effects of individuals’ self-doubt and imp…
The purpose of this research was to discover the level of intentionality to stimulate Christian formation in the context of fully online undergraduate baccalaureate Bible education at ABHE schools. Since ABHE affirms transformational education as part of its institutional missio…
This research explored how a group of religious leaders and scholars understand and make meaning of their experience in interfaith dialogue, and the reported impact it had on their spiritual and professional practice. It considered a broad range of themes, including participants…
What do American Jews really know about Muslims? What do American Muslims really know about Jews? These questions undergird this account of how two religious adult educators--a Jew and a Muslim--came to engage in collaborative, dialogic, relational and transformational interreli…
The current literature on critical thinking, critical reflection and critical action supports the view that higher education cannot be defined as such without the implicit existence of all three elements in the curriculum. There are many who suggest that, given the changing prof…
This qualitative study utilized narrative analysis to explore and better understand the counter-learning of an oppressed Kurdish woman, Zelo, from Turkey. The study looked specifically at the process of developing counter-learning under multilayered oppression from her childhood…
Scope and method of study. The purpose of this study was to examine one faith-based program (Kairos Horizon, 2003) and its effect on the perspectives of incarcerated fathers at the Davis Correctional Facility and the overall reduction of offender misconducts and enhancement of r…
This case study investigated the process of adopting and integrating interactive whiteboards into the daily practice of teachers and compared the findings to relevant theoretical models. Participants were drawn from a small international school in Damascus, Syria, where interact…
Joseph Smith, the subject under study, was born in 1805 and died a martyr's death in 1844. In his formative years, Joseph lacked formal education due to frequent moves and the need for laboring alongside his family on the farm to provide for the necessities of life. His formal e…
Dynamic assessment (DA) is based on Vygotsky's (1978) sociocultural theory and his Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). ZPD is the range of abilities bordered by the learner's assisted and independent performances. Previous studies showed promising results for DA in tutoring sett…
Renowned as a theater of the Cold War, the Korean peninsula has been divided between North Korea and South Korea over the past 70 years, with each country developing its distinctive political, economic, and cultural systems. Over the past 30 years, approximately, 33,000 North Ko…
COVID-19 has shifted education moving from a primarily in-person model to a virtual one. Within the arena of International Development, higher education, particularly in Canada has had to adapt how they deliver workshops in an accessible way to participants in Egypt. My master’s…
Each week, Christians leave their respective worship services and go out into the world to “make Christ known.” But what sort of Christ do they have in their heads, and what techniques do they possess that will help them proclaim that Christ? A Christian religious educational ap…
Teachers’ continuous improvement and its impact on student academic achievement has been the focus of initiatives and efforts toward reform and research throughout the history of education, particularly in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. The purpose of this st…
In an effort to understand the ways in which individual members of social groups brought their lived experience and personal histories to the group, and how after doing so the group co-constructed a new kind of understanding at the communal level, I joined such a group for over …
This study examined the adult learning journey during a midlife career transition and the role of spiritual practices in transforming professional self-concept and defining career purpose and meaning. The research helped to illuminate how adults apply spiritual practices to incr…