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  2. Sharan Merriam - Wikipedia

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    Sharan B. Merriam is professor of adult education at the University of Georgia. Her focus has been researching and writing about adult learning and the foundations of adult education. She has won the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education for three of her books. In 1998 she was a senior Fulbright scholar to Malaysia ...

  3. Robert Kegan - Wikipedia

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    He was the William and Miriam Meehan Professor in Adult Learning and Professional Development at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He taught there for forty years until his retirement in 2016. [2] He was also Educational Chair for the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education and the co-director for the Change Leadership Group. [3]

  4. Miriam Roth - Wikipedia

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    Miriam Roth (Hebrew: מרים רות; January 16, 1910 – November 13, 2005) was a preeminent pioneer of Israeli preschool education, author and scholar of children's literature, with a long career as a kindergarten teacher and educator.

  5. Adult education - Wikipedia

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    Exemplary situation – a workshop, the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) Annual Conference in Wellington, New Zealand in 2012. Adult education, distinct from child education, is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values. [1]

  6. Pointed Roofs - Wikipedia

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    Miriam Henderson, the central character in Pilgrimage, is based on the author's own life between 1891 and 1915. [2] In Pointed Roofs, seventeen-year-old Miriam Henderson has her first adventure as an adult teaching English at a finishing school in Hanover, Germany. Richardson herself had left home in 1891, at seventeen, to take up the post of ...

  7. Miriam Margolyes - Wikipedia

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    Miriam Margolyes OBE (/ ˈ m ɑːr ɡ əl iː z / MAR-gə-leez; born 18 May 1941) is a British and Australian actress.Known for her work as a character actor across film, television, and stage, she received the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mrs. Mingott in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993), and achieved international prominence with her portrayal of Professor ...

  8. Women Talking (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Women Talking (2018) is the seventh novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews.Toews describes her novel as "an imagined response to real events," the gas-facilitated rapes that took place on the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia: [1] Between 2005 and 2009, over a hundred girls and women in the colony woke up to discover that they had been raped in their sleep.

  9. Miriam College - Wikipedia

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    Miriam College (Filipino: Dalubhasaang Miriam) is a non-stock, non-profit Filipino Catholic educational institution [1] for girls and young women in Quezon City, Philippines. It offers academic programs from pre-elementary to post-graduate and adult education levels that develop the learning and caring competencies of students and are enriched ...