Adult Learning Methods: A Guide for Effective Instruction

by Michael W. Galbraith

With the addition of seven new chapters, this second edition provides the educator of adults with aspects of understanding and facilitating adult learning as well as a variety of methods and techniques that can enhance the instructional and learning process in many educational settings. The book is designed for the practitioner and is written from a practical "how-to" perspective. Its premise is that by acquiring a greater understanding of the process of helping adults learn and the methodologies that can enhance this process, teachers and adult learners can increase their chances of sharing a positive, meaningful, and developing educational experience. "This second edition of Adult Learning Methods by Michael Galbraith and associates represents a landmark in the presentation of available adult learning methods and techniques...[it] illustrates the stability as well as the changing nature of strategies for enhancing teaching and learning efforts...not only a how-to-do it book, but a what-to-do-and-why guidebook. This is the only book I know that delivers such in-depth information about adult learning methods and techniques. It presents a state-of-the-art picture of adult education methodology for educators of adults who work in a multitude of learning settings."-- Malcolm S. Knowles, from the Foreword.

Genres: Nonfiction, Teaching, Textbooks

408 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1990