Notes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Foreword /Michael Pressley -- 1.What Does Educational Psychology Know About Adult Learning and Development? /M. Cecil Smith and Thomas Pourchot -- 2.We Learn, Therefore We Develop: Learning Versus Development - or Developing Learning? /Nira Granott -- 3.Abstraction, the Will, the Self, and Models of Learning in Adulthood /Juan Pascual-Leone and Ronald R. Irwin -- 4.Extending Sociocultural Theory to Adult Learning /Curtis Jay Bonk and Kyung A. Kim -- 5.On the Development of Adult Metacognition /Gregory Schraw -- 6.Changing Mind, Changing World: Practical Intelligence and Tacit Knowledge in Adult Learning /Bruce Torff and Robert J. Sternberg -- 7.Role of Adults' Beliefs About Knowledge in School, Work, and Everyday Life /Marlene Schommer -- 8.Adult Intelligence: Sketch of a Theory and Applications to Learning and Education /Phillip L. Ackerman -- 9.Mnemonic Strategies for Adult Learners /Russell N. Carney and Joel R. Levin -- 10.Adult Age Differences in Reading and Remembering Text and Using This Information to Make Decisions in Everyday Life /Bonnie J. F. Meyer and Andrew P. Talbot -- 11.Educational Psychology of Reading in Adulthood /M. Cecil Smith -- 12.Forgiveness Education With Adult Learners /Catherine T. Coyle and Robert D. Enright -- 13.Contributions of Parent Education to Adult Development /Lee Shumow -- 14.Toward an Adult Educational Psychology /M. Cecil Smith and Thomas Pourchot. Access available to Pitt-affiliated users through use of a networked computer with a Pitt IP address Electronic reproduction.Boulder, Colo. :NetLibrary,2000.

Classification

• LCC: LC5225
• Dewey Decimal: 374/.001/9

Book Details

• Language: eng
• Physical Description: xiii, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Edition Info: (electronic bk.) :$69.95

Subjects

• Adult education -- Psychological aspects
• Adult learning
• Developmental psychology
• Educational psychology
• Electronic books

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