Corina Caraccioli – författare

How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes? These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’ pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the 1970s. The resulting principles of a self-directed, experiential, problem-centred approach to learning have been hugely influential and are still the basis of the learning practices we use today.

Understanding these principles is the cornerstone of increasing motivation and enabling adult learners to achieve. The 10th edition of The Adult Learner has been revised to include:

The two chapters on diversity, inclusion and belonging in adult learning, and andragogy and the online adult learner have been greatly expanded to reflect the importance of these topics to the field today.

The accompanying Instructor and Student Resources website provides free digital materials designed to enhance student learning and save instructors time when preparing lessons. Resources include:

• Ready-to-use PowerPoint slides to save instructor time when planning lessons

• Learning objectives and part outlines for structured learning

• Suggested class discussions, exercises, and scenario-based activities

• Downloadable instruments for chapters 19 to 22

• Video explaining the Andragogy In Practice model

• A chapter-by-chapter Instructor Manual and a corresponding Student Guide to enhance learning outcomes.

If you are a researcher, practitioner, or student in education, an adult learning practitioner, training manager, or involved in human resource development, this is the definitive book in adult learning you should not be without.

How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes? These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’ pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the 1970s. The resulting principles of a self-directed, experiential, problem-centred approach to learning have been hugely influential and are still the basis of the learning practices we use today.

Understanding these principles is the cornerstone of increasing motivation and enabling adult learners to achieve. The 10th edition of The Adult Learner has been revised to include:

The two chapters on diversity, inclusion and belonging in adult learning, and andragogy and the online adult learner have been greatly expanded to reflect the importance of these topics to the field today.

The accompanying Instructor and Student Resources website provides free digital materials designed to enhance student learning and save instructors time when preparing lessons. Resources include:

• Ready-to-use PowerPoint slides to save instructor time when planning lessons

• Learning objectives and part outlines for structured learning

• Suggested class discussions, exercises, and scenario-based activities

• Downloadable instruments for chapters 19 to 22

• Video explaining the Andragogy In Practice model

• A chapter-by-chapter Instructor Manual and a corresponding Student Guide to enhance learning outcomes.

If you are a researcher, practitioner, or student in education, an adult learning practitioner, training manager, or involved in human resource development, this is the definitive book in adult learning you should not be without.

Andragogy in Practice is a timely book of case studies, which offers readers the opportunity to see andragogy in practice solving real-world challenges in a variety of adult learning contexts. It highlights the wonderful range of innovative practices that characterize adult learning today.

Holton, Robinson, and Caraccioli, authors of the bestselling The Adult Learner, bring a variety of diverse and inspiring extended cases together from a range of experienced teaching and learning specialists. Showing the broad scope, power, and potential of adult learning using andragogy, case topics include Artificial Intelligence, Online Learning in Higher Education, Human Resource and Leadership Development, Curriculum and Faculty Development and Art-Based Learning. The book can be used in conjunction with The Adult Learner or as a standalone text and provides a wealth of resources for educators, students, and practitioners looking to further their understanding of how andragogy is being applied in new and innovative ways. Experienced adult educators will be challenged to be more innovative in their own practices. For reflection and further dialog, each case includes a set of discussion questions to enhance engagement and understanding.

Students and practitioners of human resource development and adult education will enjoy the engaging, innovative, and insightful cases in this book addressing andragogical practices in the contemporary society.