The Adult Learner
The Adult Learner

Author: Malcolm S. Knowles

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-20

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1000072894

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How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes? These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’ pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the 1970s. The resulting principles of a self-directed, experiential, problem-centred approach to learning have been hugely influential and are still the basis of the learning practices we use today. Understanding these principles is the cornerstone of increasing motivation and enabling adult learners to achieve. The 9th edition of The Adult Learner has been revised to include: Updates to the book to reflect the very latest advancements in the field. The addition of two new chapters on diversity and inclusion in adult learning, and andragogy and the online adult learner. An updated supporting website. This website for the 9th edition of The Adult Learner will provide basic instructor aids including a PowerPoint presentation for each chapter. Revisions throughout to make it more readable and relevant to your practices. If you are a researcher, practitioner, or student in education, an adult learning practitioner, training manager, or involved in human resource development, this is the definitive book in adult learning you should not be without.

Adult Learning Methods
Adult Learning Methods

Author: Michael W. Galbraith

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9781575242323

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The third edition of ?Adult Learning Methods?, with revisions, updates, and six new chapters, provides the educator of adults with ways to understand and facilitate adult learning. It is a clearly written guide to understanding the complex aspects associated with techniques and methods of the teaching and learning encounter.

Facilitating Adult and Organizational Learning Through Andragogy: A History, Philosophy, and Major Themes
Facilitating Adult and Organizational Learning Through Andragogy: A History, Philosophy, and Major Themes

Author: Henschke, John Arthur

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-11-20

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1799839389

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Andragogy may be defined as a scientific discipline for study of the research, theory, processes, technology, practice, and anything else of value and benefit including learning, teaching, instructing, guiding, leading, and modeling/exemplifying a way of life that would help to facilitate and bring adults to their full degree of humaneness. Andragogy is one part of the broader international field of adult education, human resource development, and lifelong learning, thus serving the advancement and connection needs of adult learners, organizational development, and lifelong learning in areas such as higher education, business, military, corporate training, healthcare, executive leadership, courtroom practice, religious life, and human resource development. Facilitating Adult and Organizational Learning Through Andragogy: A History, Philosophy, and Major Themes investigates the history, philosophy, and major themes of andragogy and how they may contribute to helping practitioners to design and facilitate adult and organizational learning. The book presents more than 500 documents that are examined through two different lenses. The first lens is the history and philosophy (or a chronological approach) of andragogy while the second lens takes a look at the major themes as categories of what the documents express. While encompassing the background, uses, and future of andragogy, this book is ideally intended for teachers, administrators, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students.

ADULT EDUCATORS' RESOURCE MANUAL
ADULT EDUCATORS' RESOURCE MANUAL

Author: Marilyn Laiken

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2024-10-31

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13:

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This book represents a compilation of all of the author's learning about teaching adults, from an almost fifty- year career in the field of adult education. It explores the art and science of training as a transformative learning process. It goes further than the development of understanding and skill, to actually help achieve a change in behaviour that reaches beyond the classroom experience. The purpose is to help learners critically reflect on their behaviour and underlying assumptions and provide an opportunity for these to be fully explored with others in a dialogic atmosphere. This manual outlines in detail the methods needed to create such an educational experience. It begins with life before training, including preprogram preparation, designing a training program, and planning for how to create a positive learning environment. It then explores life during training, including understanding the adult learner, dealing with difficult situations and behaviour, facilitating group dynamics in the classroom to create a transformative learning environment, managing your own personal leadership and facilitation style, and using instructional methods that work. To close, the book addresses life after training, including all forms of evaluation and ensuring enduring impact beyond the training program. Finally, personal anecdotes from the author's own experience are included throughout the book to enrich and illustrate points being made.