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Experience, Consciousness, and Learning: Implications for Instruction
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Sheckley, Barry G.; Bell, Sandy – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2006
This chapter highlights the central role of experience in learning and consciousness; it also outlines experience-based instructional processes that adult educators can use. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Brain
Brain Function and Adult Learning: Implications for Practice
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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