increasing number of adult students are on college campuses seeking undergraduate degrees‚ filling some of the seats formerly occupied by the traditional‚ 18-22-year-old students (Apps‚ 1981; Cross‚ 1981; Leckie‚ 1988). Cross (1981) notes that part-time students make up the greater part of this increase. Indeed the number of full-time adult students is still quite small‚ particularly at four-year colleges and universities. While universities are noticing the presence of mature adults in their full-time
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Adult education is the process whereby adults engage in systematic and sustained learning activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge‚ skills‚ attitudes‚ or values. Adult education can take place in the workplace‚ through "extension" school (e.g.‚ Harvard Extension) or "school of continuing education" (e.g.‚ Columbia School of Continuing Education). Other learning places include community colleges‚ folk high schools‚ colleges and universities‚ libraries‚ and lifelong learning centers. The
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ADULT EDUCATION Part of being an effective educator involves understanding how adults learn best (Lieb‚1991). Andragogy (adult learning) is a theory that holds a set of assumptions about how adults learn. Andragogy emphasises the value of the process of learning. It uses approaches to learning that are problem-based and collaborative rather than didactic‚ and also emphasises more equality between the teacher and learner. Knowles identified the six principles of adult learning outlined below. Adults
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Protection of the Innocence The most important responsibility people have is to protect the innocent regardless of the situation. In the world as we know it the strong prosper and the weak suffer‚ but what about the innocent? Who provides‚ cares‚ and protects them? It’s not only a responsibility but a moral and ethical obligation. Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird is significant because it gives many examples of individuals protecting the innocent. Jem‚ Scout‚ Tom Robinson‚ and Boo Radley
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Animal Abuse 1. In some circuses‚ wild and exotic animals are trained through the use of intimidation and physical abuse. Former circus employees have reported seeing animals beaten‚ whipped‚ poked with sharp objects and even burned to force them to learn their routines! 2. Elephants who perform in circuses are often kept in chains for as long as 23 hours a day from the time they are babies. 3. More than 25 million vertebrate animals are used in testing in the United States each year. When invertebrate
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really risky and making a bad decision can lead one to the loss of their innocence. In William Golding’s book “Lord of the Flies” one can see that the loss of innocence is the major theme throughout the book of these little boys in the island. This theme contributes when they find out what they’re capable of and what they’re not capable of. The conch in “Lord of the Flies” is one out of the three that represents the loss of innocence. It can symbolize equality and justice‚ so everyone has the right to
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Hitting a certain age? Having a relationship? Getting a job? How is it that we can do those things‚ that we consider to be “adult”‚ but we still feel like kids? Or that we feel like grown-ups‚ we’re certainly old enough‚ but we haven’t seemed to have accomplished any of those things “grown-ups” have done? People never seem to quite understand the meaning of being an “adult”. I myself am not very sure of the full meaning of it. It has always seemed to me that age is irrelevant. You can be 12 and
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IMPORTANCE_OF_ADULT_EDUCATION">IMPORTANCE OF ADULT EDUCATION GOOD MORNING RESPECTED TEACHERS AND MY DEAR FRIENDS. EDUCATION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WHICH IS MANDATORY FOR ALL THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE WORLD. WITHOUT EDUCATION PEOPLE CAN BE EASILY CHEATED‚ BE-FOOLED & DECEIVED. THEY THEN ARE GIVEN THE NAME WHICH MOST PEOPLE DON’T LIKE IS THE WORD ’ILLITERATES’. THEY ARE DISCRIMINATED AND THEY CANNOT JOIN THE MAINSTREAM WHICH IS A DIFFICULT TASK. The scope of Adult education is very comprehensive. Social
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Adult Psychopathology Sleep and Sexual Disorders Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders: At the outset: four terms 1. Anatomic sex: biological sex‚ based on XX or XY chromosomes 2. Gender Identity: internal feelings as to whether one is male or female (I am male/ I am female) 3. Gender role: external behavior (particularly social behavior but can include sexual behavior) how one wishes to be seen by others (or oneself) as a male or female 4. Sexual orientation: preference for sexual partners
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More than 200‚000 children are prosecuted in adult courts each year. All 50 states can prosecute a child‚ under the age of 16 years old‚ as an adult (Young & Gainsborough‚ 2000). Between 1992 and 1997‚ forty two states and the District of Columbia enacted legislation to enable juvenile offenders to be transferred to adult prisons (Young & Gainsborough‚ 2000). Missouri and Indiana lowered the minimum age for transfer to an adult facility from 16 years of age to the incredibly young age of ten (Flesch
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