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The adult learner : some things we know / Robin J. Fogarty, Brian M. Pete.

Discover strategies that work with the adult learner! Based on the authors' 20 years of combined experience, this illuminating text examines the challenge of teaching adults and reveals what really works when leading professional development training for educators. Ideal for new and aspiring st...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Fogarty, Robin
Other Authors: Pete, Brian M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin : SAGE, 2007.
Series:In a nutshell series.
Subjects:
Adult education.
Adult learning.
Learning strategies.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • Some Things We Know about Adult Learners
  • Telltale Comments
  • Things We Know
  • Adult Learning: The Research Base
  • Five Assumptions about Adult Learners
  • Supporting Assumptions about Adult Learners
  • Kruppâ€?s Work on Adult Learners
  • Thirty Things We Know for Sure
  • Chapter 2
  • Some Things We Know about Change
  • This Horse is Not Dead
  • The Change Game
  • Who Moved My Cheese?
  • Group Process-Roles People Play
  • The Three-Tiered Change Process.
  • Chapter 3
  • Some Things We Know about Professional DevelopmentEvolution of Professional Development Models
  • Learning Organizations
  • Best Practices in Professional Development
  • The Training Model
  • Chapter 4
  • Conclusion
  • Concerns Based Adoption Model
  • Situational Dispositions for Transfer
  • Appendix: Discussion of Statements in Figure 1.1
  • Bibliography.

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