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 | | Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) by Sharan B. Merriam, Rosemary S. Caffarella ISBN-10: 9780787910433 ISBN-10: 0-7879-1043-0 ISBN-13: 9780787910433 ISBN-13: 978-0-7879-1043-3 Hardcover 1998-11-06 Jossey-Bass Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description "An essential volume in adult education." --Choice "Merriam and Caffarella provide an excellent resource whose value will last until the appearance of the third edition." The second edition of Learning in Adulthood integrates the most important contributions to adult learning in the last decade. The result is an updated, comprehensive synthesis of what we now know about adult learning--including the context in which it takes place, who the participants are, what they learn and why, the nature of the learning process itself, major theoretical developments, and much more. Sharan Merriam and Rosemary Caffarella reveal how sociocultural influences can create specific developmental needs and interests, and how such social factors as race, class, and gender can shape learning. From this background, they construct a more inclusive perspective on adult learning, guiding readers toward new ways of thinking about teaching, learning, and the broader social implications of adult education. | ||
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An overview of adult learning This book does a very good job in describing the history of adult learning processess, the various methods of same, and philosophical perspectives of how and why adults seek education in later life. It sets one up to make their own judgements on what is important to the field of adult education and how those important issues should be addressed. The book also makes good points about the probable effects of the changing demographics on educating older adults. Excellent read for teachers, students, sociologists, and counselers. John Zapata Plant City, Fl. | ||
Another grad student Merriam's spirituality section reads right off of a new age sale rack. "Grace lurks among the vegetables in the supermarket. Grace sits on a bar stool and smokes a cigarette". It just doesn't get any more absurd than quoting research like that. It's stocked with disdain for traditional learning and loaded with bias and garbage like the above. Yuck. She spends more time tearing apart theories that don't jive with her agenda than going over new thought. Rotten book. | ||
Learning in Adulthood Had to read this book for my graduate Adult Learner class. Good information, especially if your focus is understanding how to teach adults. | ||
Poorly written text This is one of the most poorly written texts covering adult learning theory. The author has picked a selection of different theories but only gives a short introduction to each - leaving many questions and concerns after reading each chapter. The information given on educational theorists is horribly fragmented. In many chapters there is no context, history or biography of the theorists given. If you'd like fragmented information on learning theories - this is the book. If you'd like comprehensive information on learning theories-this is not the right book. The information has to be supplemented with a lot of hard work researching details from the internet or other educational texts. This was a required text for a graduate level course in adult education and it was a waste of money. | ||
Left-wing, anti-West underlying political messages Before I give my review, let me state my bias. I am an American through-and-through. I love my country. America feeds the world. America gives billions in aid to countries that openly declare their hostility to our culture. Also, I am almost 70 and am grateful for the opportunities that America has given me. Therefore I become annoyed at books that state as fact that America is somehow responsible for all the world's woes. Although there is much that is scholarly and well-researched in this book, and although it was required reading for a course I am taking, I was annoyed by its constant inferences that Western Society is at fault for all the world's problems. The terms "oppress, oppressive, and oppression" are used more than 40 times when describing the teacher-student relationship. American success is blamed for world terrorism. This is unnecessary in an otherwise scholarly explanation of educational trends for adulthood. In an effort to sound super-scholarly the vocabulary and sentence structure is full of inflated and pretentious statements. Concepts that could be described in five simple words are given in long sentences of 5 syllable words strung together in clauses that practically require the reader to get out the Unabridged. | ||