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Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide (Jossey-Bass Higher & Adult Education) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sharan B. Merriam, Rosemary S. Caffarella, Lisa M. Baumgartner
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 38832
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.8
ISBN: 0787975885
Dewey Decimal Number: 374
EAN: 9780787975883
ASIN: 0787975885
Publication Date: October 27, 2006
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Product Description
In this updated landmark book, the authors have gathered the seminal work and most current thinking on adult learning into one volume. Learning in Adulthood addresses a wide range of topics including: Who are adult learners? How do adults learn? Why are adults involved in learning activities? How does the social context shape the learning that adults are engaged in? How does aging affect learning ability?
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 Another grad student September 23, 2008
Merriam's spirituality section reads right off of a new age sale rack. "Grace lurks among the vegetables in the supermarket. Grace sits on a bar stool and smokes a cigarette". It just doesn't get any more absurd than quoting research like that.
It's stocked with disdain for traditional learning and loaded with bias and garbage like the above. Yuck. She spends more time tearing apart theories that don't jive with her agenda than going over new thought. Rotten book.
Learning in Adulthood July 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Had to read this book for my graduate Adult Learner class. Good information, especially if your focus is understanding how to teach adults.
Poorly written text April 30, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is one of the most poorly written texts covering adult learning theory. The author has picked a selection of different theories but only gives a short introduction to each - leaving many questions and concerns after reading each chapter.
The information given on educational theorists is horribly fragmented. In many chapters there is no context, history or biography of the theorists given. If you'd like fragmented information on learning theories - this is the book.
If you'd like comprehensive information on learning theories-this is not the right book. The information has to be supplemented with a lot of hard work researching details from the internet or other educational texts.
This was a required text for a graduate level course in adult education and it was a waste of money.
 Left-wing, anti-West underlying political messages February 9, 2008
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
Before I give my review, let me state my bias. I am an American through-and-through. I love my country. America feeds the world. America gives billions in aid to countries that openly declare their hostility to our culture. Also, I am almost 70 and am grateful for the opportunities that America has given me. Therefore I become annoyed at books that state as fact that America is somehow responsible for all the world's woes. Although there is much that is scholarly and well-researched in this book, and although it was required reading for a course I am taking, I was annoyed by its constant inferences that Western Society is at fault for all the world's problems. The terms "oppress, oppressive, and oppression" are used more than 40 times when describing the teacher-student relationship. American success is blamed for world terrorism. This is unnecessary in an otherwise scholarly explanation of educational trends for adulthood. In an effort to sound super-scholarly the vocabulary and sentence structure is full of inflated and pretentious statements. Concepts that could be described in five simple words are given in long sentences of 5 syllable words strung together in clauses that practically require the reader to get out the Unabridged.
 Good Book January 28, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this book for a masters study class because it was half the price they were going to charge me at the book store. This book is well written and easy to read. I have read other books by Merriam and they were not this well put together, but I would recommend this book.
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