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Culture and processes of adult learning : a reader

The authors provide a variety of perspectives on adult learning, drawing on sociology, psychology, adult education and applied research into how adults experience learning, what motivates it, and how best it might be developed.
Print Book, English, 1997
Routledge, London, 1997
XIV, 283 Seiten Diagramme 24 cm
9780415089814, 0415089816
247153828
List of Figures, List of Tables, Introduction Mary Thorpe, Richard Edwards and Ann Hanson Part 1 - Power, purpose and outcomes. 1.`Really useful knowledge' 1790-1850 Richard Johnson 2.Feminist challenges to curriculum design Susan F. Parsons 3.Competency and the pedagogy of labour John Field 4.Chile, Santiago: breaking the culture of silence 5. Unpaid work in the home and accreditation Linda Butler Part 2 - Adulthood and learning. 6.Education for adults 7. Is there any way out of the andragogy morass? Joseph Davenport 8.Adult Development Mark Tennant 9.The process of experiential learning David A. Kolb Part 3 - Learners' expcation or miseducation? Adults imagine the future Susan Warner Weil 11.Black students in higher education Verna Rosen 12.Teaching learning: redefining the teacher's role M-J. Gremmo and D. Abe 13.Developing learning skills in vocational learning Sylvia Downs 14.The interpersonal relationship in the facilitation of learning Carl R. Rogers 15.The utilization of learning objectives - a behavioural approach L.B. Curzon 16 What is skill and how is it acquired? John Sloboda
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