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Students' Perceptions About Knowledge

Colonies, Jason S
http://orcid.org/0009-0002-4864-2742
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1690124209554309

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2023, Doctor of Education , University of Dayton, Educational Administration.
The Education Center serves many adult learners that have the goal of receiving their high school equivalency. Adult learners face many barriers when pursuing this goal. The research in adult education focuses on the barriers that learners face and what drives them to succeed. There is limited research on what learners’ perception of knowledge is. This study was conducted utilizing five case studies to explore learners’ lived experiences and how those experiences affected their perceptions of knowledge. Findings showed that the barriers and motivations that they experienced affected how they perceived what success was and that the organization and its instructors need to take into consideration all individual learners experiences, barriers, and motivations to create individualized learning plans. An action plan was created to guide the organization towards creating an equitable learning environment and to improve success rates for all learners.
Davin Carr-Chellman (Committee Chair)
Carol Rogers-Shaw (Committee Member)
Darnell Bradley (Committee Member)
96 p.
Adult Education; Education Philosophy; Education Policy; Educational Leadership; Educational Theory; Organization Theory
GED; adult learners; adult education; barriers; motivations; internal barriers; external barriers; perceptions of knowledge; knowledge, individualized learning; community; self-efficacy; equitability; social justice; professional development; action research

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  • Colonies, J. S. (2023). Students' Perceptions About Knowledge [Doctoral dissertation, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1690124209554309

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Colonies, Jason. Students' Perceptions About Knowledge. 2023. University of Dayton, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1690124209554309.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Colonies, Jason. "Students' Perceptions About Knowledge." Doctoral dissertation, University of Dayton, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1690124209554309

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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