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Peer reviewedDaley, Barbara J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2000
An expanded model of learning upon which to base continuing professional education views knowledge as the social construction of information through constructivist and transformative learning. The model also depicts the effect of context on the process. Providers must change their mindset and become active facilitators of knowledge construction.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Constructivism (Learning), Professional Continuing Education
Direct linkTaylor, Kathleen – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
Recent discoveries about brain function explain how best practices in adult learning may lead to adult learners' developmental growth.
Descriptors: Brain, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cognitive Processes
Jarvis, Christine – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter examines how the study of popular romantic fiction was used to transform students' understandings of the ways in which gendered identities are constructed and their perception of the way textual meanings are determined.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Fiction, Reader Text Relationship, Gender Issues
