Learning from Life Experience: What Makes It Significant?.

Merriam, Sharan B.; Clark, M. Carolyn

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ERIC Number: EJ462053

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1993

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Learning from Life Experience: What Makes It Significant?

Merriam, Sharan B.; Clark, M. Carolyn

International Journal of Lifelong Education, v12 n2 p129-38 Apr-Jun 1993

A survey of 405 adults and interviews with 19 showed the majority of learning experiences were informal. For learning to be significant, it must personally affect the learner by expanding skills or causing a transformation, and it must be subjectively valued by the learner. (SK)

Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Change Agents, Educational Attitudes, Experiential Learning, Informal Education, Learning Experience, Life Events, Transformative Learning, Values

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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