Adult Learners and About Adult Thesis

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2. How does this particular author support his/her claims?

The author uses several means to argue and support her claims. First of all, she bases most of her assertions of learning theories as the starting base of her descriptions and assumptions. For example, the learner-driven curriculum is drawn from the constructivist theory, a theory of learning. Building upon the basic premises of constructivism, she is able to create the claims on which her own framework for defining a curriculum is built.

On the other hand, she is also keen to structure her conception around the two fundamental elements in a learning process: the subject of the learning process and the participants in the learning process. Basing her assumptions on these elements means that she needs to look very closely at these elements and draw the initial claims.


3. Based on your analysis and experience, how valid and applicable are the claims of adult teaching and learning made by this particular author?

Some of the claims she makes are contradicted even by herself when drawing the conclusions and pointing out, for example, that some of the teachers are not free to choose their curriculum, because it has already been pre-determined by the government or by the funding programs. Additional, we may also add that there are several other elements that may affect the composition of a curriculum and draw it away from the simple representation that this….....

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