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Instrumental and Expressive Learning: Some Comparisons
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Hiemstra, Roger – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1977
Preferences for and learning activity in instrumental and expressive education are examined. Interview data of 256 Nebraskans, 55 or older, show preference differences according to sex, race, marital status, and location grouping. Comparisons with earlier (1972) data are included. An increased, overall preference for instrumental education was…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Individual Differences, Learning Processes
Relationships between Intelligence and Concept Identification in Adulthood as a Function of Stage of Learning.
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Hayship, Bert – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1979
Participants aged 17-26, 39-51 and 59-76 solved concept problems to investigate intellectual correlates of concept identification as a function of stage of learning in adulthood. Differential ability-performance relations as a function of stage of learning were considerably less potent in the elderly v the young and middle aged. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
Life-Span Learning: A Developmental Perspective
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Thornton, James E. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2003
The article discusses learning as embedded processes of development and aging, and as social activity over the life course. The concept of life-span learning is proposed and outlined to discuss these processes as aspects of and propositions in life-span development and aging theory. Life-span learning processes arise and continuously develop in a…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Adult Development, Models