Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Adult & Continuing Education

This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact with technology in different learning environments. Based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in this area, the authors present their findings and offer practical recommendations for the use of new technology in a learning society. They invite debate on:

• why ICTs are believed to be capable of affecting positive change in adult learning
• the drawbacks and limits of ICT in adult education
• what makes a lifelong learner
• the wider...

This unique text provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in adult education and lifelong learning. It includes more than twenty-five seminal articles from the first two decades of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, written by leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and Europe.

Compiled to show the development of the field, the articles are divided into four sections:

From Ault Education
to Lifelong Education
and Lifelong Learning
to the Learning Society and Beyond.

The specially written...

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"NEUROANDRAGOGY," tells of new advances in brain research. Much of this new research confirms what teachers of adults have been saying for years. A very good example of this is that children and adults do not learn in the same way. The brain of the child does not reach new brain function and true maturity until age 21 and older. This is clearly seen when youth use their emotions to decide and not their executive brain as adults do.

"NEUROANDRAGOGY" includes research that confirms ways adults can improve their IQ and sharpen their mind even into old age. This is possible because "brain...

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