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Direct linkBelzer, Alisa – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2004
This article explores the ways in which prior experiences in formal learning contexts influence adult learners' views of their current context. Using interview data from five women participating in a General Educational Development program, this study suggests that these learners' constructions of previous learning contexts function as "screens"…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Educational Development, Adult Students, Adult Learning
