… One has to do with failure of positivistic understandings of knowledge and action to hold up
… Classic adult education attempts to inform practice, highly dependent on positivistic science …

… on the emergence of these more complex adult thought structures as individuals enter
adulthood… major proposals concerning the emergence of adult thought structures and present data …

… How we interpret the analyst’s action here depends on our theoretical perspective. In … I
believe this concreteness of thought and action placed Ms. M. at a more severely ill level of …

… Three adult subjects performed the task for six 1-hour sessions each. All of the … action time
task were the letters AX, printed in capitals by illuminating about 20 points in a 5 X 7 matrix on …

… Postformal Thought are analyzed in greater depth. I argue that each adult person uses
Postformal Thought … Our focus is on the areas of mortality, relationships, learning, and community. …

… review the vast and growing literature on executive control but focus on my own attempt
to … for a child, but much less so for adults who have already acquired their native language. …

… In this work, the discus sion on adulthood is mainly targeted at the stages between early
adulthood and the late middle age, or in Laslett’s terms, the second age, but also with some …

… on proper roles to develop new action agendas based on processes of community and
individual self-discovery. Autonomous adults … civic organizations intent on maintaining cohesive …

… Children and adults are flexible and inventive in their action and thought, adapting old ideas
… scaffolding), where, for example, an adult takes on acting out the role of one of the dolls in a …

… Chapter 21 offers the challenge "Can we teach adults to use complex postformal thought?"
Some … The subject of this book, Postformal Thought, is based on a developmental perspective …