Adult Learners on Campus
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The opportunity for a "second chance" is a growing phenomenon. Some members of the Adult Learners Consulting Group, a dozen or so faculty and graduate students at the University of Dakota, who have a general interest in the related processes of learning and teaching, investigated the specific concern about the ways older-than-average students learn and the instructional methods most appropriate for them. They recognized that for both the older student and the teacher of the older student there are problems and issues that are different from the average student or student/teacher relationship. In addition to presenting an integrated picture of adult learners on campus, this book also provides some teaching techniques that can be used in the classroom tomorrow.; It is aimed at teachers in further and adult education, trainers in all disciplines, researchers in adult and continuing education.
List of Tables and FiguresForewordPrefaceThirteen People Who Helped Us Understand Adult LearnersPt. IA Background on Adult Learners1Ch. 1Adult Learners3Perspective on Adults and Adult Learning5Andragogy Versus Pedagogy6An Introduction to the Adult Learner9Ch. 2Adult Development11Cognitive Development13Identity Development20Pt. IIOur Study and Its Findings25Ch. 3Our Study, Our Students29Methodology29Students at the University of North Dakota31A Group of Young Adult and Adult Learners35Ch. 4Issues Related to College Attendance42Competing Priorities42Allotment of Time43Reasons for Attending College46Ch. 5Issues Related to Teaching and Learning50Contemporary Students, Former Students50Preferred Instructional Style51Best Teachers and Worst Teachers54Deterrents61Obstacles63Personal Academic Strengths and Weaknesses65Preferred Evaluation Strategy68Support Services72Implications for Teaching75Ch. 6Recommendations for Teaching Adult Students77Recommendations for Faculty78Institutional Recommendations91Ch. 7Epilogue94Young Adults95Adults97Final Thought101Appendix A: Methodology103Appendix B: Survey Instrument and Letters to Respondents110Annotated Bibliography120References132Index138
