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Download full textBrady, Thomas C. – 1975
The study attempts to demonstrate movement in adult learning from particularization to symbolization to internalization (value choice) through use of a Counseling-Learning Model. Adult resistance to learning is dealt with through application of counseling awarenesses to the learning situation. If the adult learner can be freed from threat to…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Attitude Change, Counseling, Learning
Structuring an Adult Learning Environment. Part IV: Establishing an Environment for Problem Solving.
Frankel, Alan; Brennan, James – 1983
Through the years, many researchers have advanced theories of problem solving. Probably the best definition of problem solving to apply to adult learning programs is Wallas' (1926) four-stage theory. The stages are (1) a preparation, (2) an incubation period, (3) a moment of illumination, and (4) final application or verification of the solution.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Discovery Processes
Cooper, Richard – 1996
A project provided more than 800 adult educators in Pennsylvania with a wide range of staff development activities and instructional strategies for teaching students with learning differences and multilevel abilities in the same classroom. It established a model for staff development that built upon previous projects and used a variety of delivery…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Classroom Techniques, Heterogeneous Grouping
Department for Education and Employment, London (England). – 2000
A working group of professionals and practitioners from across England was formed to identify the basic skills needs of and adults with learning difficulties and/or disabilities and to determine how to better meet those needs. The working group sent out a "call for evidence" and used its own networks to gather evidence. The evidence was…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning
Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
The first volume of the 29th annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education contains plenary lecture and research forum papers as listed below. Short oral communications papers, poster presentations, brief summaries of discussion groups, and working sessions are also included in the volume. The plenary…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary School Mathematics, Semiotics, Mathematics Education
