Dynamics of learning motives and barriers in the context of changing human life roles

This paper promotes a theoretical discussion that focuses on the motives and barriers that make impact on adults learning as well as on their dynamics related to the change of social roles. The adult learning motives and barriers change and vary according to the prevailing social roles at different periods of one’s life. This dynamics of adult learning motives and barriers is mostly influenced by the importance and compatibility of acquired social roles, responsibility areas and spaces of a person and other factors. The qualitative data was gathered in March – April 2016 in Kaunas, Lithuania. The sample consisted of 30 narratives, written by informants, aged 35 to 65 years that were participating in professional training courses. There has been prepared 30 self-reflections that were analysed using content analysis. The analysis of empirical data shows that external learning motives and barriers prevail in the period when an individual is active in the labour market while the personal motives remain overshadowed. However, personal barriers prevail in the expression of learning barriers. This is influenced by the society’s attitude towards the performance of pupil and student roles and the value attitudes of surrounding people that partially control it

Cα displacement in open/closed conformations.

<p>Cα displacement in open/closed conformations.</p

Superposition of MD and NMA results.

<p>Superposition of structures resulted from MD and NMA. Alpha 5 and 10 helices are highlighted. Closed and open conformations extracted from MD trajectories are represented by red and green.</p

Distance fluctuation map of CALB.

<p>Distance fluctuation map of CALB for Cα at mode 1. Flexible blocks are colored for increase (blue) and decrease (red) of distance fluctuations.</p

Structure snapshots of normal mode analysis.

<p>Superimposed snapshots of the structure extracted from normal mode analysis. Alpha 5 and alpha 10 helices are colored.</p

Mean square displacement of Cα.

<p>Mean square displacement of Cα calculated by normal mode analysis for mode 7 (blue) and 11 (red).</p

RMSF of Cα for modes 1–5 at different temperatures.

<p>RMSF of Cα for modes 1–5 at 5°C (8A), 35°C (8B) and 50°C (8C): Total RMSF (blue), mode 1 (red), mode 2 (green), mode 3 (purple), mode 4 (light blue), mode 5 (orange).</p

Ribbon representations of CALB.

<p>Ribbon representations of CALB with open (blue) and closed (red) conformations (A). Snapshots from different views (B and C).</p

Distances between lid α5 and α10 during 30 ns.

<p>Inter helical distance between C_α atoms of α5 and α10 in CALB at 5°C (blue line), 35°C (red line) and 50°C (green line) as a function of time (ps).</p

Radius of gyration of CALB at different temperatures.

<p>R_gyr of CALB at 5°C (blue line), 35°C (red line) and 50°C (green line) with average values of 18.188, 18.22 and 18.251 respectively.</p