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ERIC Number: EJ356953
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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Teaching Students to Teach Themselves.
Toppins, Anne Davis
College Teaching, v35 n3 p95-99 Sum 1987
A unit on adult learning with an exercise based on the theories of Malcolm Knowles and Allen Tough is described. After students in the class see that they actually planned and directed much of their significant adult learning, they are eager to join in the process of modifying course objectives. (MLW)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, College Instruction, Course Objectives, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Independent Study, Learning Processes, Lifelong Learning, Program Descriptions, Self Directed Groups
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers: Course Design; Knowles (Malcolm); Tough (Allen)