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Taylor, 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
Adam, Felix, Ed.; Aker, George F., Ed. – 1982
This publication, the first in a series on theory, innovation, and practice in andragogy, is a reproduction of two papers first published in 1971 by Coolie Verner and Catherine V. Davison. The first paper in this booklet explores psychological factors in adult learning and instruction, while the second discusses physiological factors. In the five…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Hughes, Fergus P. – 1980
The recent phenomenon of the "returning adult" to colleges has raised concern regarding two implications: age decline in intellectual ability and loss due to lack of practice. Literature indicates slight impairment of the problem-solving function until the years of advanced age. The degree of impairment is related to factors of educational…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students