LONGWOOD, FL-Recent statistics show an increase in the need for adult education programs. This dynamic change can be attributed to a change of lifestyle. Leisure time, increased wealth, and better healthcare now enable seniors to enroll in continuing education programs throughout high schools, colleges, and universities. Michael Wodlinger, author of Adult Education: Understanding the Adult Learner (paperback, 978-1-60266-069-4), believes his book fills a gap in the area of adult learning. It examines what makes an effective facilitator of adult learning by understanding what it means to be an adult learner.
Says Wodlinger, "There are very few texts on adult education dealing with the learning adult's experience. This text is unique in that it is entirely focused on adults' learning experiences and how these experiences help adults shape their self-perceptions as learners. It helps current and aspiring facilitators of adult learning optimize adult learning."
Adult Education: Understanding the Adult Learner leads readers through experiences that enable them to appreciate how adults learn, how adults experience learning, and how these experiences help adults shape their self perceptions as learners. It will also optimize adults' learning and adjust oneีs thinking to meet adult learners' needs. Developing this knowledge will assist readers in becoming more effective facilitators of adult learning. Included in the learning materials are a variety of self-analysis inventories, reflective activities, and resource materials for further learning.
Wodlinger, who has more than 40 years of education experience to his credit, spent the last 30 years devoted to adult learners. He has taught adults in four universities across Canada and written several texts, monographs, and articles on issues related to adult learning.
Xulon Press, a part of Salem Communications Corporation, is the world's largest Christian publisher, with more than 3,900 titles published to date. Retailers may order Adult Education through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. Salem Communications is the country's leading Christian communications company with interests in radio, Internet, and magazine publishing.
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2007