The new update on adult learning theory
By: Sharan B. Merriam, editor.
Contributors: Merriam, Sharan B.
Series: Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series; New directions for adult and continuing education -- no. 89; New directions for adult and continuing education -- no. 89.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Adult learning; Continuing education; Learning strategies
Description: "This volume is an up-to-date version of the popular Update on Adult Learning Theory published in 1993. Traditional theories of andragogy and self-directed learning are revisited, and the burgeoning scholarship on transformational learning and informal and incidental learning is reviewed. Three chapters are devoted to new developments in perspectives introduced in 1993 - women's learning, context-based learning (situated cognition), and critical and postmodern theories. Finally, three very recent approaches to adult learning are presented in this New Update on Adult Learning Theory: emotion and imagination in adult learning, the brain and consciousness, and somatic and narrative knowing. The concluding chapter assesses the contributions of the last decade in expanding our understanding of adult learning."--Jacket.
Notes: "Spring 2001."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Andragogy and self-directed learning -- Sharan B. Merriam -- An; title: update on transformational learning -- Lisa M. Baumgartner; title: Informal and incidental learning -- Victoria J. Marsick, Karen E. Watkins -- A; title: new look at women's learning -- Elisabeth R. Hayes; title: Context-based adult learning -- Catherine A. Hansman; title: Critical and postmodern perspectives on adult learning -- Deborah W. Kilgore -- The; title: power of feelings : emotion, imagination, and the construction of meaning in adult learning -- John M. Dirx -- The; title: brain and consciousness : sources of information for understanding adult learning -- Lilian H. Hill; title: Off the beaten path : some creative approaches to adult learning -- M. Carolyn Clark; title: Something old, something new : adult learning theory for the twenty-first century-- Sharan B. Merriam.