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Peer reviewedToppins, Anne Davis – College Teaching, 1987
A unit on adult learning with an exercise based on the theories of Malcolm Knowles and Allen Tough is described. After students in the class see that they actually planned and directed much of their significant adult learning, they are eager to join in the process of modifying course objectives. (MLW)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, College Instruction, Course Objectives, Graduate Students
