Watch the video, The Adult Learner Story (10:48), before you complete the discussion This week you looked at Marxist theory, critical theory, multiculturalism, critical race theory, postmodernism, and feminist theory. Three main themes characterize this perspective. The first theme – race, class, and gender – leads to the second theme of how the intersections of…
This week, we looked at various theories of adult cognitive development. An important takeaway from our readings is the impact of both dialectical thinking (viewing issues from multiple perspectives) and contextual factors on learning. Which do you believe is more influential when developing appropriate learning activities: dialectical thinking or contextual perspective? Why? Refer to chapters…
From a description of the brain as a kind of central processing unit, we discussed memory and how information is processed through sensory memory to short-term memory and finally on to long-term memory storage. Let’s focus on how aging affects memory. Do you feel that memory loss affects the everyday learning activities of adult learners?…
The reading this week concluded with a description of integrated perspectives on development with salient examples of theorists who have included the biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives in their models of adult development (for example, Baltes and Magnusson). To understand fully how adult development is linked to adult learning, the text suggested that educators of…
We learned this week about the ways that the brain functions in adulthood and how it affects learning. The idea of cognitive styles (or learning styles) is important, because it says that the adults can exhibit different ways of processing information for the purpose of learning. Global learners, for example, may process multiples streams of…
Narrative learning is the use of stories in the construction of meaning, whether the meaning-making has to do with the self, with the content of instruction, or with the world around us. Rossiter and Clark’s (2007) model claims three main uses of narrative in practice: narrative as curriculum, narrative as storytelling, and narrative as autobiography.…