Learning and Change in the Adult Years: A Developmental Perspective

Mark Tennant

ISBN 10: 0787964980 / ISBN 13: 9780787964986

Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2002

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Provide insights into the critical connections between experience and learning in different areas of adult education and training. This book examines how experience generates developmental change and looks at how the relationship between self and others changes across the lifespan and, in turn, affects the teacher-learner relationship. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMRL; JNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340. . 2002. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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• Titolo: Learning and Change in the Adult Years: A Developmental Perspective
• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0787964980
• ISBN 13: 9780787964986
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Does the capacity to learn increase or decrease over time? How does the sense of self and identity change over the adult years? What are the educational implications of that change? And how can teachers acknowledge the experience their adult students bring to the classroom?

In this book, Mark C. Tennant and Philip Pogson draw on the field of developmental psychology to provide new insights into the critical connections between experience and learning in all areas of adult education and training. Integrating findings from both adult developmental psychology and adult teaching and learning, the authors examine how experience generates developmental change. They look at how the relationship between self and others changes across the lifespan and, in turn, affects the teacher-learner relationship. And they describe the processes that promote separateness, indepAndence, interdepAndence, and autonomy in adult learners.Learning and Change in the Adult Years thoroughly explores the role of development in adult learning, the investment of 'self' in learning, and the link between social development and personal development to give teachers and trainers both the concepts and tools for promoting autonomy and self-direction in learners.

MARK TENNANT is dean of faculty and professor of adult education in the Faculty of Education, University of Technology, Sydney. He has published numerous articles in international journals on the theme of lifespan development and learning. His book Psychology and Adult Learning won the 1990 Cyril Houle Award for outstanding literature in adult education.

PHILIP POGSON is staff development manager at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has held a number of positions in education and training at both the university level and in vocational training for the long term disadvantaged unemployed.

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Mark Tennant is dean of the University Graduate School at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has published numerous articles in international journals on the theme of life-span development and learning. His book Psychology and Adult Learning won the 1990 Cyril O. Houle Award for outstanding literature in adult education.

Philip Pogson is a director of 'The Leading Partnership,' a consulting firm specializing in strategic management and business development based in Sydney, Australia. He has held senior human resources and organizational development roles in the private and public sectors and in vocational training for people who are disadvantaged and unemployed long-term.