One way to approach the question of whether teaching adults is different is by examining the
types of learning in which adults engage. Adult learning has been classified as subject …

The goal of emancipatory learning is to free learners from the forces that limit their options
and control their lives and to move them to act for social and political change. Although …

The purpose of this study was to explore the conceptions of teaching and learning of twelve
adult educators who teach in a range of English programs in the public school system and at …

then full ofwonderful ideas. I was not involved in the academic world then, so can attest to
Mezirow's ideas having relevance to a practitioner. If I could use his ideas, ifI couldhelp …

Adult education is in a bad way, both institutionally and theoretically. Institutionally, the
School of Adult Education at the university here in Sydney where I worked is a case in point …

This article argues that adult educators need to adapt their philosophy and roles to facilitate
adult learners' transformative learning and proposes a model that illustrates this process …

This article argues that adult educators need to adapt their philosophy and roles to fa-cilitate
adult learners' transformative learning and proposes a model that illustrates this process …

This book draws on recent scholarship in adult education to provide practical ideas for adult
educators on how to stimulate and support their own development as educators and better …

Pietrykowski attributes to me an assumption that adult learners occupy different stages of
development. I believe that adult learners are at different phases in their movement toward …

ElIzabeth T. Tlce dults represent an increasing segment oftoday's educational market. As the
largest segment of the population, bulging with baby boomers, enters middle adulthood …