Becoming Adult Learners: Principles and Practices for Effective Development

✍ Scribed by Eleanor Drago-Severson

Publisher: Teachers College Press
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 241
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book offers a new and promising way to support adults in Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) programs specifically, and learners in adult education, in general. Applying renowned Harvard University psychologist Robert Kegan's constructive-development theory,

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