A Rose by Any Other Context: A Process Model for Adult Learners.

Barker, Walter

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Publication Date: 1989

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A Rose by Any Other Context: A Process Model for Adult Learners.

Barker, Walter

Equity and Excellence, v24 n3 p43-45 Fall 1989

Discusses a teaching strategy devised to introduce adult students to the formalities of contextual analysis and multiplicity thinking and designed to get them to see that phenomena can be described from several points of view simultaneously and that each description has validity. Explores various ways this process eases student anxieties. (JS)

Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Content Analysis, Cooperation, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students, Process Education, Student Adjustment, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue with the title, "Adult Learners in Higher Education."