Enhancing adult motivation to learn : a comprehensive guide for teaching all adults

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Enhancing adult motivation to learn : a comprehensive guide for teaching all adults

Raymond J. Wlodkowski

(The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series)

Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1999

Rev. ed

  • : cloth

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Bibliography: p. 345-361

Includes indexes

Contents of Works

  • How motivation affects instruction
  • Characteristics and skills of a motivating instructor
  • What motivates adults to learn
  • Establishing inclusion among adult learners
  • Helping adults develop positive attitudes toward learning
  • Enhancing meaning in learning activities
  • Engendering competence among adult learners
  • Building motivational strategies into instructional designs
  • Epilogue : being an effective instructor of adults

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In the more than a decade since its original publication, Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn has been widely used in all educational and training settings where adults are learners, and has remained a work of enduring value to both practitioners and students of adult learning. This completely revised edition of Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn offers updated, culturally responsive practical advice and strategies in the jargon-free, readable style that made the original work so popular. This valuable resource is for teachers, trainers, and anyone who wants learning to be a motivating experience for all adults.

Table of Contents

How Motivation Affects Instruction. Characteristics and Skills of a Motivating Instructor. What Motivates Adults to Learn. Establishing Inclusion Among Adult Learners. Helping Adults Develop Positive Attitudes Toward Learning. Enhancing Meaning in Learning Activities. EngAndering Competence among Adult Learners. Building Motivational Strategies into Instructional Plans. Epilogue: Being an Effective Instructor of Adults. Appendix: Observation Guide for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning (Adult Version) Margery B. Ginsberg.

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