Excellent Study - Superb Reference | Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide (Jossey-Bass Higher &...

Good Book | Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide (Jossey-Bass Higher & Adult Education) | Sharan B. Merriam, Rosemary S. Caffarella, ...

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	• Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide (Jossey-Bass Higher & Adult Education) Sharan B. Merriam, Rosemary S. Caffarella, ... Jossey-Bass, 2006 - 560 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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.

Excellent Study - Superb Reference

Learning in Adulthood is one of those "classic" text/reference books i.e., the kind that you actually read and return to time and again. I am particularly taken by the way the authors summarize the major thinking in the various content areas. They extract the key thoughts of hundreds of research works, compare and contrast, synthesize. They are careful to present dissenting views. Most of their references are recent. I also like the fact that their own voices are heard and they are strong, experienced voices. This is an ideal source book for graduate students that are writing or will be writing a thesis or dissertation.

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Good Book

I bought this book for a masters study class because it was half the price they were going to charge me at the book store. This book is well written and easy to read. I have read other books by Merriam and they were not this well put together, but I would recommend this book.

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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.

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In this updated landmark book, the authors have gathered the seminal work and most current thinking on adult learning into one volume. Learning in Adulthood addresses a wide range of topics including: Who are adult learners? How do adults learn? Why are adults involved in learning activities? How does the social context shape the learning that adults are engaged in? How does aging affect learning ability?

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