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Becoming adult learner in 50s yielded insight about how to better serve students
Author(s) -
Gomez Cynthia
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
recruiting and retaining adult learners
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2155-6458
pISSN - 2155-644X
DOI - 10.1002/nsr.30025
Subject(s) - adult learner , adult education , degree (music) , mathematics education , pedagogy , psychology , physics , acoustics
Rita Serotkin, who has worked in adult higher education for much of her adult life, became an adult learner in 2001 at the age of 54 when she decided to finally pursue her doctoral degree. She had always wanted to, but there was always a reason to put it off.