Discusses principles of learning and facilitating conditions for learning and behavioral change produced in an evaluation of the Operation Mainstream counseling education project in northern New England. (SE)

Describes facilitative training which recognizes that unidirectional imparting of knowledge is a limited view of training, and that involvement, accountability, and feedback are essential elements for effective learning. (Author/JOW)

Programs for adult learners need to be more attuned both to social priorities and to those needs that are perceived by the client rather than to needs that are perceived by educators. (Author)

Conceptualizes managers' just-in-time training as occurring through proactive work practices characterized by "hot action" and adult learning principles. Shows how anticipative actions model Aristotle's epistemology of phronesis or practice wisdom. (Contains 24 references.) (SK)

Self-directed learning's contributions to understanding of adult learning include (1) insights into the learning process; (2) challenge to define and debate learner characteristics; and (3) expansion of thinking about formal learning. (SK)

A framework of the levels, states, and structures of consciousness suggest other ways of knowing than the rational and analytical. Modern science and ancient wisdom are complementary knowledge sources. (SK)

Cites the limits of organizational learning and proposes finding insights from postmodern thinking to redefine it. Explores the postmodern strategy of deconstruction as a method that induces a more critically reflective approach to learning at work. (SK)

Analysis of four transcripts of genetic counseling sessions shows how Jarvis' model of contemplative learning helps elucidate the process genetic clients undergo. The model can be applied in other areas of health care involving patient learning. (SK)

The paper summarizes recent data on the retention and non-completion patterns of adult students, especially those over the age of 25 who have had a gap since completing full-time education. While data on further and higher education suggest that older learners are less likely than younger ones to complete longer, qualification-bearing programmes,…

Trainers have long relied on visuals to make their training more effective. This paper explores whether or not graphic design principles, commonly employed by trainers in presentations and Web-based training modules, influence the learning process. A review of the core works in the field of instructional design reveals that most of the principles…

Action learning has the ability to solve complex problems and to significantly increase the speed and quality of individual, team and organizational learning. Its theoretical base and relationship to adult learning orientations and the source of this power remain relatively unexplored. The authors conducted an extensive review of the literature in…

This empirical study uses auto-ethnography to describe a higher education pedagogical process that facilitated largely doctoral students in preparing their candidacy proposals through the use of specific adult learning principles. Students' experiences and points of view of such a learning environment were explored, including: (1) how they…

This document was prepared by the authors to support their report "Job Requirements and Lifelong Learning for Older Workers." This document contains the following sections: (1) Definition of variables; (2) Descriptive statistics; and (3) Additional figures. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.) [Funding for this document was provided…

The purpose of this multiple case study was to identify ways to improve learner persistence in General Equivalency Diploma (GED) programs in the U.S. The participants in this multiple case study were GED instructors and adults without high school diplomas who were enrolled in two GED programs were located in the Southern and Southwestern U.S.…

This paper investigates learning related to the phenomena of drying over the past decade in the southern Murray-Darling Basin in Australia, as perceived in a mid-river site within the western Riverina of New South Wales, Australia. The insights from audio-recorded interviews, with a wide range of adults across the water-dependent community, mostly…