Overview

"Adult education occurs whenever individuals engage in sustained, systematic learning in order to affect changes in their attitudes, knowledge, skills or belief systems. Learning, instruction and developmental processes are the primary foci of educational psychology research and theorizing, but educational psychologists' work in these domains has centred primarily on the childhood and adolescent school years. More recently, a number of educational psychologists have studied learning and development in adulthood. These efforts have resulted in what is termed ""adult educational psychology"". The purpose of this volume is to introduce this subfield of educational psychology. The first section focuses on the interplay between learning and development in adulthood, how various forms of instruction lead to different learning outcomes for adults, descriptions of the diverse social contexts in which adult learning takes place, and the development of metacognitive knowledge across the life-span. The second section describes both research and theory pertaining to adult intellectual functioning, thinking and problem-solving skills within various contexts. The third section describes research in a variety of adult learning domains; discusses the cognitive and behavioural dimensions of reading in adulthood and the applications of reading in real-life circumstances; examines an educational intervention developed to promote forgiveness; and relates the outcomes of an intervention designed to educate parents about their children's mathematics learning. The final section summarizes the themes and issues running throughout the text."

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Author:   M. Cecil Smith ,  Thomas Pourchot ,  M. Pressley
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780805825237

ISBN 10:   0805825231
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   01 January 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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A 'must read' for researchers, teachers, and graduate students in the fields of educational psychology, adult development, and adult education, this collection will also interest adults seeking insights into their own life-span learning and development. -CHOICE This book should be of interest to many readers. Educational psychologists will discover that learning is not restricted to children, and cognitive aging researchers will discover adult learning may be investigated outside of the laboratory. General readers will learn much about themselves as learners from chapters that are well-written and easy to comprehend. -Contemporary Psychology

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