Adult learning has rapidly become an area of increased research as more adults retrain to new careers, return to school after long breaks in education, andare required to constantly update skills as related to technological advances. This collection of 45 articles from the International Encyclopedia of Education 3e offers cognitive psychology researchers a comprehensive summary of mainfindings in the field while saving them time of having to wade through technical and detailed handbook or journal materials. The work covers theories of adult learning, differences in adult learning regarding gender, race, age, and culture, learning in different environments (home, school, work), what influences effective learning, and the ability of learning to transfer to different contexts. Saves researchers time in summarizing in one place what is otherwise an interdisciplinary field in cognitive psychology, personality, sociology, andeducationLevel of presentation focuses on critical research, leaving out the extraneous and focusing on need to know informationContains contributions fromtop international researchers in the fieldMakes MRW content affordable to individual researchers
- ISBN: 978-0-12-381489-0
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 326
- Fecha Publicación: 05/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés