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Adult learning: Where have we come from? where are we headed?
Author(s) -
Merriam Sharan B.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
new directions for adult and continuing education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0717
pISSN - 1052-2891
DOI - 10.1002/ace.36719935703
Subject(s) - adult learning , adult education , psychology , adult development , pedagogy , adult learner , developmental psychology
Early efforts to understand how adults learn were by psychologists who studied learning in general; adult educators then joined in. Recently, other perspectives have been developed to help us understand adult learning.