Adults as Learners
Increasing Participation and Facilitating Learning

K. Patricia Cross (Author)

9781555424459, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 3 February 1992

336 pages
23.2 x 15.4 x 2.1 cm, 0.454 kg

"A superb, substantive book and one that should cause us to think about the learning society and how we are going to plan for it now and in the future."

A superb, substantive book and one that should cause us to thinkabout the learning society and how we are going to plan for it nowand in the future.
--Adult Learning

1. Growth of the Learning Society
2. Issues in Recruiting Adult Learners
3. Who Participates in Adult Learning
4. Why Adults Participate--and Why Not
5. Toward a Model of Adult Motivation for Learning
6. Implications for Increasing Participation
7. Patterns of Adult Learning and Development
8. How and What Adults Learn--and Want to Learn
9. Facilitating Learning

Subject Areas: Education [JN]