Adult Learner at Work: The challenges of lifelong education in the new millenium
Autor Robert Burnsen Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2002
Completely revised and updated for the 2000s, The Adult Learner at Work, 2nd edition is for educators, trainers and managers who want to stay in touch with the latest thinking in their fields. Dr Robert Burns explains the important changes that have swept through the field of post-compulsory education and the worldwide swing to the lifelong learning as the gateway to a learning society. When work, education and life satisfaction can truly intermesh, sustainable prosperity becomes achievable. Robert Burns explores such questions as:
* What conditions have created lifelong learning, learning societies and learning organisations?
* How have government and business responded?
* What methods and processes enhance the learning potential of adults?
* How can we motivate adults to learn?
* What are the effects of advancing age on our ability to learn?
* Is competency training an effective tool for encouraging learning?
This new edition examines how and why we must facilitate the learning potential of all members of society. The Adult Learner at Work, 2nd edition provides an attractive vision of the development of learning environments in the workplace and the community setting-integrating skill learning and personal development using well founded principles of adult learning.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781865089898
ISBN-10: 1865089893
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1865089893
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Preface
About the author
Part 1: The national and international context
Chapter 1 The changing context of work
Chapter 2 Lifelong education: Australian policy
Chapter 3 Learning organisations and learning communities
Part 2: The adult learner: psychological background
Chapter 4 The psychology of learning
Chapter 5 Intelligence and memory
Chapter 6 Motivation and personality
Part 3: Educating the adult
Chapter 7 Theories of adult education
Chapter 8 Methods in educating adults
Chapter 9 Implications for teaching, training and the organisation
Concluding overview
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Part 1: The national and international context
Chapter 1 The changing context of work
Chapter 2 Lifelong education: Australian policy
Chapter 3 Learning organisations and learning communities
Part 2: The adult learner: psychological background
Chapter 4 The psychology of learning
Chapter 5 Intelligence and memory
Chapter 6 Motivation and personality
Part 3: Educating the adult
Chapter 7 Theories of adult education
Chapter 8 Methods in educating adults
Chapter 9 Implications for teaching, training and the organisation
Concluding overview
Bibliography
Index
Notă biografică
Robert Burns currently teaches in the Faculty of Education at the University of Brunei. He is the author of numerous successful books in the areas of psychology, adult learning, stress management, career guidance and business skills.
Descriere
A comprehensive guide to the context, psychology and methods of learning for the workplace completely revised on the basis of the changing needs of a new decade.