This report is expected to be useful to graduate students, professors, and researchers in the field of adult education and extension education. In addition, researchers and students in education and psychology who are interested in independent study, individualized instruction, and human learning may find that the framework and findings reported here are relevant to their own research. Finally, some administrators and instructors in schools, colleges, and adult education may be interested in considering the implications of the study for their own efforts to develop and assist people who want to continue learning throughout their adult years.
The why, how, and where of all of the adult's learning projects are encompassed in this book. The central focus is on the adult's efforts to learn, in particular, his decisions, preparations, reasons for learning, help, problems, and needs. The 15 chapters of the book discuss the following: highly deliberate efforts to learn; episodes and learning projects; whether learning projects are common and important; what people learn; why people learn; preparatory steps in deciding to proceed with a learning project; choosing the planner; how common and important each type of planner may be; self-planned learning; improving self-planned learning; ...
Short Articles for Comprehension is a three-level reading course intended for high-beginning to low-intermediate students learning to read English. The non-fiction passages found throughout this series present students with a wide range of informative articles that will help transition students from a learning-to-read stage to a reading-to-learn stage of language development. Transcripts reuploaded
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