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The Adult Learner: The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development: Tthe Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development

The Adult Learner: The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development: Tthe Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development

by Elwood F. Holton III Ed.D. (Author), Malcolm S. Knowles Ph.D. (Author), Richard A. Swanson Ph.D. (Author)

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Synopsis

This much acclaimed text has been fully updated to incorporate the latest advances in the field. As leading authorities on adult education and training, Elwood Holton and Dick Swanson have revised this edition building on the work of the late Malcolm Knolwes. Keeping to the practical format of the last edition, this book is divided into three parts. The first part contains the classic chapters that describe the roots and principles of andragogy, including a new chapter, which presents Knowles' program planning model. The second part focuses on the advancements in adult learning with each chapter fully revised updated, incorporating a major expansion of androgogy in practice. The last part of the book will contain an updated selection of topical readings that advance the theory and will include the HRD style inventory developed by Dr. Knowles. This new edition is essential reading for adult learning practitioners and students and HRD professionals. It provides a theoretical framework for understanding the adult learning issues both in the teaching and workplace environments. Key features include: provides a theoretical framework for understanding adult learning issues both in teaching and workplace environments; essential reading for a wide audience of practitioners and students in the field of adult learning and human resource development; and incorporates Knowles'classic theories on adult learning alongside the latest advances in the field.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 390
 Edition: 6
 Publisher: A Butterworth-Heinemann Title
Published: 17 Mar 2005
ISBN 10: 0750678372
ISBN 13: 9780750678377
Book Overview: * Definitive classic, 5th edition sold over 20,000 copies. * Essential reading for a wide audience of practitioners and students in the field of adult learning and human resource development. * Incorporates Knowles'classic theories on adult learning alongside the latest advances in the field.

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A great update of a classic. Should be requred reading for anyone involved with adult learning in schools, businesses and communities. Sam Stern, Professor & Dean, The New School of Education, Oregon State University, USA
Author Bio
The late Malcolm S. Knowles, Ph.D., was one of the leading authorities on adult education in the second half of the twentieth century. He wrote the first major accounts of informal adult education and the history of adult education in the United States, authoring more than 200 articles and 18 books. He is famous for his adaptation of the theory of Andragogy as a conceptual basis for adult education and learning, and was a significant force in reorienting adult educators from 'educating people' to 'helping them learn'. Elwood F. Ed Holton holds an impressive record of accomplishments in adult and continuing education and human resource development. He is the founding editor of Human Resource Development Review, a past president of the Academy of Human Resource Development and author of over 200 publications, including academic and professional articles in HRD, performance improvement and psychology journals. In addition to his academic role as the Jones S. Davis Distinguished Professor of Human Resource, Leadership and Organization Development at Louisiana State University, he has more than twenty years' HRD and performance improvement consulting experience with a wide variety of private, public, and non-profit organizations. Richard Swanson is a past president of the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD), founding editor of Advances in Developing Human Resources, a scholarly journal sponsored by AHRD, and founding editor of the Human Resource Development Quarterly, the research journal of AHRD and American Society for Training and Development. The AHRD presented him with the Outstanding HRD Scholar Award in 2000 and in 2001 he was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. In 2004, he was inducted into AHRD's Human Resource Development Scholar Hall of Fame. He has performed consulting work for leading US corporations and is an internationally recognized authority on organizational change, performance improvement and financial analysis of human capital investments.