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Download full textKegan, Robert; Broderick, Maria; Drago-Severson, Eleanor; Helsing, Deborah; Popp, Nancy; Portnow, Kathryn – 2002
A study explored how adults perceived program learning; whether program learning helped them enact a particular social role; and whether they changed while participating in the program. For a year or more, researchers studied experiences of learning and change of 41 adult learners enrolled in three programs--at a community college, family literacy…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Helsing, Deborah; Drago-Severson, Eleanor – 2002
Robert Kegan's constructive-development theory of adult growth postulates three different ways of knowing (instrumental, socializing, and self-authoring) and suggests that, although individuals develop differently, individual development can never be separated from culture. The potential of the constructive-development perspective on adult…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Educators
