Adult Learning Through the Filters of B.F. Skinner & The Color Purple Adult Learning as Seen Through B.F. Skinner and The Color Purple The main character in the novel, musical play, and film The Color Purple is Celie, a fourteen-year-old girl l Continue Reading...
Adult learning self-assessments can prove influential for motivating students (Stipek, Recchia, & McClintic, 1992, cited in Ross, 2006, p. 7). The assessment developed for this assignment was designed to enable students to provide feedback both a Continue Reading...
The importance in training and development with regard to understanding how adult learning works provides the ability to develop effective programs for adult learners in field of employment, education and interests. When these two articles are ble Continue Reading...
Adult learning theory Twenty-First Century 9(chapter 9 book Sharan Merriam - New The primary purpose of Cari Kenner and Jason Weinerman's "Adult learning theory: applications to non-traditional college students" and Sharan Merriam's "Adult learning Continue Reading...
Adult Learning Abstract Self-Direction in Adult Learning Forums Technology has radically changed the face of adult learning during the past 25 years. The traditional brick-and-mortar classroom, while still dominant, has been joined by a wide variet Continue Reading...
Adult Learning Personal Learning Style: Strengths, Weaknesses, Improvement Every student has a personal learning style. Although this is true for students of all ages, this notion is particularly pronounced in adult learners. Perhaps this is the c Continue Reading...
As a younger student, I remember being somewhat obstinate and inflexible in that I always wanted to do things my way, even with the benefit of adult instruction. Today, I have the ability to recognize expertise in others and I respect the fact that Continue Reading...
The police department, by its very nature, cannot embrace all seven of Vaill's way of being/learning at all times. However, most are actually covered, at least in the progressive departments: Way of Being Example in Police Department Self-Direct Continue Reading...
In the field of education there are many distinguishing characteristics a learner can have. One of the attributes that every learner has is the style in which one learns ideas and concepts (Dunn & Griggs, 2000). The three main learning styles re Continue Reading...
Adult Learning Training and Adult Learning Operational processes and technologies are constantly evolving and more at speeds never before seen in organizations. It is more often than not these changes require the development of new skills sets from Continue Reading...
Adult Learning There have been occasions during my career that required cultural unlearning and building cross-cultural relationships, although I was unfamiliar with the concepts at the time. I was still inclined to accept the institutional learning Continue Reading...
In this context then, it is more important for the manager to possess a wide array of purposeful and relational skills. These will help him / her envision the organization and as such set the basis of a strategic effort through which the firm would Continue Reading...
Second, it suggests that once an appropriate curriculum has been compiled -- one that produces the appropriate results -- then this very same curriculum should produce the same results every time it is employed properly. And third, it suggests that Continue Reading...
Adult Learning: Facilitation Observation Paper Adult learning involves adults engaging in systematic educational activities so as to gain new skills, values, attitudes and knowledge. This is normally done after the years of traditional schooling have Continue Reading...
Adult Learning: Andragogy Adult learning as a concept was first introduced in Europe in the 50s (QOTFC, 2007). But it was in the 70s when American practitioner and theorist of adult education Malcolm Knowles formulated the theory and model he calle Continue Reading...
As such, I then find myself truly understanding the concept as opposed to forgetting or misunderstanding the information if I don't have a relationship or something to hook the concept onto. The other factor that is especially relevant to me is that Continue Reading...
This can be exploited to encourage the adult students to get into adult education and continue from one stage to another. Secondly Knowles poses that experimental or pragmatic education is the most effective form of adult education. This involves a Continue Reading...
Adult Learning Theory: Applications to Non-Traditional College Students" presents a number of important factors that are intrinsic to the propagation of adult education. The authors take a decidedly comprehensive approach to characterizing key disti Continue Reading...
For countries such as the U.S. And France, these needs can be reasonably expected to relate to the respective national cultures involved. For instance, in their book, Education in France, Corbett and Moon (1996) report, "An education system needs to Continue Reading...
curriculum is one of the hardest tasks that educators are faced with. This is because it must be made in a manner that is accommodative of all students. Due to the swift change of events and ways of living in our contemporary society, it becomes ma Continue Reading...
Transformational Learning More than twenty-five years ago, Jack Mezirow initiated a profound movement in the field of adult education, that of transformative learning theory. Since this time, the concept of transformative learning has been a topic o Continue Reading...
Education Educating Rita Exemplifying Adult Learning Learning is said to be lifelong. This is why it is no wonder that we see adults learning all around, at work, in school, even in social settings. Adult learning, however, if in a university sett Continue Reading...
Teaching in an Adult Learning En Vironment This study will set out thoughts on teaching class in an adult learning environment. Included will be influential variables including classrooms, teachers, and students. The adult learning environment invo Continue Reading...
validity and legitimacy; the sources add to the value of the information presented, which is the strategy that many scholarly articles follow. Knowles, et al., Definitions On page 7 of the article the authors use references provided by Knowles (19 Continue Reading...
Introduction The problem facing students in college is that many of them are not being educated as adults. There is a significant difference in the way an adult approaches education and the way a child approaches education (Forrest & Peterson, 2006). Continue Reading...
Kolb's model of adult learning explains how learning in adults occurs. According to the model, adult learning occurs in four stages (Kolb, 2015). The first stage is the experience of an event or situation (concrete experience). In the second stag Continue Reading...
310). This seems entirely true, but I believe that it is seldom put into effect. The institution that was most relevant here was, of course, the hospital and the health system as a whole. Learning in a hospital is very different from learning in sch Continue Reading...
The first instance is correctable, with no real harm done. The second instance could cost a life; the procedure cannot be re-done. The instructor should design for students the situations that will provide the most authentic experiences possible and Continue Reading...
Adult education has two branches. One can be called the purpose of education and the other can be named the practice of education. Many times it happens that in a practical set up the difference between the purpose and practice of adult education res Continue Reading...
Learning Theories When compare principles andragogy Social Learning Theory, implications methods applying learning? References required. Andragogy refers to the strategies used in adult learning. This learning strategy enables adult learners to inc Continue Reading...
Bergevin's Philosophy of Adult Education According to Bergevin, three important points of adult education are to help the learner achieve a degree of personal satisfaction, help the learner to better understand their strengths and weaknesses, and Continue Reading...
BMCC: Provider of Adult Education The BMCC Center for Continuing Education and Workforce Development through the City of New York offers a wide variety of classes in business management, career planning, personal development, and English language Continue Reading...
Learning Theory: The process through which humans learn has been an issue of significant concern since the emergence of formal education thousands of years ago. In attempts to understand the process of human learning, there have been several theorie Continue Reading...
I remember almost nothing from the history class, but I still use information that I learned in the art class. Houle's Classification Criteria for Continuing Education According to Houle (as cited by Conner, 2004), learners can be classified as go Continue Reading...
Sternberg's definition of analytical or componential intelligence includes using higher-order thinking processes to obtain and retain knowledge. The creative or experiential component involves the ability to synthesize information and make connecti Continue Reading...
Moreover, I would have expected a review of the past ten years of Adult Education Quarterly to reveal a dramatic increase in submissions related directly to the impact of technology on distance adult learning. As Taylor brings up the importance of i Continue Reading...
Learning a Second Language Psychological Aspects of Learning Psychological Aspects of Learning a Second Language A foreign or second language "L2" can be defined as a language that is studied in such environment where it is not the common language Continue Reading...
Judgment, however, should be suspended long enough to try to determine why someone does something a certain way. If this can be determined, it is another lesson worth having. This is true of the student that is just learning about business, and true Continue Reading...
" (Purcell-Gates, Degener, and Jacobson, 1998) Activities in the classroom that use generative themes derived from the adult learner's lives "have been seen to facilitate their acquisition of literacy." (Friere, 1992; as cited in: Purcell-Gates, Deg Continue Reading...
