Adults as Learners
Increasing Participation and Facilitating Learning
1st Edition
Published on 3. February 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-55542-445-9 (ISBN)
Description
A superb, substantive book and one that should cause us to thinkabout the learning society and how we are going to plan for it nowand in the future.
--Adult Learning
--Adult Learning
Reviews / Votes
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55542-445-9 (9781555424459)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
K. PATRICIA CROSS is David Pierpont Gardner Professor of Higher Education at the University of California Berkeley.
Content
1. Growth of the Learning Society
2. Issues in Recruiting Adult Learners
3. Who Participates in Adult Learning
4. Why Adults Participate--and Why Not
5. Toward a Model of Adult Motivation for Learning
6. Implications for Increasing Participation
7. Patterns of Adult Learning and Development
8. How and What Adults Learn--and Want to Learn
9. Facilitating Learning
2. Issues in Recruiting Adult Learners
3. Who Participates in Adult Learning
4. Why Adults Participate--and Why Not
5. Toward a Model of Adult Motivation for Learning
6. Implications for Increasing Participation
7. Patterns of Adult Learning and Development
8. How and What Adults Learn--and Want to Learn
9. Facilitating Learning