Product Description
A companion work to 1993’s popular An Update on Adult Learning Theory, this issue provides the adult learning educator with the latest developments, significant research, and continuing scholarship in andragogy and self-directed learning. Exploring a variety of frameworks, including context-based learning, informal and incidental learning, somatic learning, and narrative learning; the authors analyze recent additions to well-established theories and discuss the pote… More >>
The New Update on Adult Learning Theory: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education
#1 by Adam M. Cain on February 3, 2010 - 1:19 am
This book was very dry, and not really what I was looking for, so maybe that is why I didn’t like it very much. I wanted a book on adult learning, but this didn’t have much too it for the price. Read a few pages of the book before you decide to buy.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by T. Rowe on February 3, 2010 - 2:31 am
$30 for 90 pages. The material is entertaining, but not very heavy duty. Look for the .pdf version. I found it in my college library’s database.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Harleyman on February 3, 2010 - 5:06 am
For $30, this “text book” is smaller than the IRS tax instructions and should be available for about 1/3 the cost if it is going to be used in academic instruction. It is not worth the cost nor is the information contained in it worthy of being considered a text for a course in the Masters program. All of the subjects in the book are found in free online articles.
Rating: 2 / 5
#4 by Rachel J. Petri-rose on February 3, 2010 - 5:17 am
This is a very brief book with some very interesting perspectives on adult learning,
This book can help one to understand how they learn and why they learn that way.
It discusses how women learn differently than men and how emotions play a role in how we learn. The theory I found most interesting was a part of Transformational Learning; The Four-Lens Approach- the first lens is “emancipatory education”, next understand that knowledge is created through interpretations, third lens is to accept consensual validation and lastly you have to follow through with your vision.
It’s a good read if you want to expand your mind on the adult learning theory.
Rating: 4 / 5