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Thanh T. G. Trinh; Kees de Bot; Marjolijn Verspoor – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This longitudinal case study from a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) perspective touches upon an under-researched issue: L1 development over the lifespan. Levinson (1978) predicts three stages in adulthood: early, mid and late, with a decline in late adulthood. We examine Diane Larsen-Freeman's publications over a period of 50 years (from age…
Descriptors: Authors, Writing Skills, Longitudinal Studies, Lifelong Learning
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Billett, Stephen – International Journal of Training Research, 2015
Knowing how adults learn through work is central to understanding their development across working lives. That development is important for their personal trajectories, and ability to contribute, sustain and advance the interests of their workplaces, and collectively to the social and economic viability of their communities and nations. This paper…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Workplace Learning, Adult Development, National Surveys
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Gerber, Paul J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
This article proposes use of a life-span developmental perspective in research on adults with learning disabilities. Considerations for incorporating such essential concepts as mediating variables, context, and age-span phases into research on this population are discussed. (DB)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Age Differences, Developmental Stages
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Rivera, William M. – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1978
Considers adult educational needs according to the idea of developmental tasks along with changes in adult life cycles and calls for changes in adult education and legislation. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Age Differences, Developmental Stages
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Agruso, Victor M., Jr. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1980
The adult learner can profit from instruction and novel experience. A number of educational delivery models were discussed. Aids in learning coupled with teaching strategies were suggested for inclusion in the design of learning environments. The emphasis is on maximization of capacity through recognition of individual differences. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Age Differences
Traver, J. L. – Training and Development Journal, 1975
The author expands on the false assumptions implied in the title and shows how they are in error. (AG)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Age Differences
Price, Gary E. – 1987
Research has demonstrated that learning style preferences and how they are taken into account are closely related to learner achievement and satisfaction. The Learning Style Inventory (LSI) was the first comprehensive approach to the assessment of an individual's learning style in grades 3 through 12. The Productivity Environmental Preference…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adults, Age Differences
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Special Committee on Aging. – 1980
This report of the hearing before the Senate Committee on Aging concerns the question of aging and its effects on learning and working. Statements by witnesses are recorded to present the results of ongoing longitudinal studies focused on the effects of biological aging and the measurement techniques used to analyze variables associated with…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals)
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Marcus, Edward E. – 1976
The instrumental and expressive utilities of participating in education differ among participants. To ascertain how age affects their perception of these forms of utility, questionnaires were executed by 400 middle class participants ages 18-84 in 45 classes for adults in the Chicago area. Independent variables influencing perception of utility…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Age Differences, Educational Gerontology
State Univ. of New York, Buffalo. Div. of Continuing Education. – 1973
The symposium celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Division of Continuing Education at the State University of New York at Buffalo; changes in higher education during those 50 years have moved adult learning into a primary area of attention. Traditional lines of learning are bluring and assumptions about the adult learner are rapidly changing.…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Age
Cohen, Margaret W. – 1982
Differences in preparing teachers' orientations to the profession and their career goals and aspirations were examined as a function of their life stages and ages. Intensive interviews were conducted before and after the student teaching experience. Half of the student teachers were classified as returning students or adult learners. The other…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Career Development, Experiential Learning
Tuijnman, Albert C., Ed.; Van Der Kamp, Max, Ed. – 1992
This book contains 15 papers on the following topics related to lifelong learning: lifespan development and education, capacity to learn in the lifespan, skills formation in the workplace, learning to learn in the lifespan, and implications for policy and practice. The following papers are included: "Learning for Life: New Ideas, New…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adults
Jarvis, Peter – 2001
This book, which incorporates information gathered through research in the United Kingdom and the United States, explores the nature and importance of learning throughout the human life cycle. The following are among the topics examined: (1) learning and third age education (the emergence of education for adults, third age education); (2) learning…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning