I find Jack Mezirow's work on transformative learning to be pretty interesting stuff. Michael ________________________________ From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu on behalf of Helena Worthen Sent: Sun 5/13/2012 8:12 PM To: laure.kloetzer@gmail.com; eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity Subject: Re: [xmca] Identifying the Top Studies : adult learning I'd vote for Knud Illeris's Adult Education as well as his Contemporary Theories of Learning: Learning theorists in their own words. You probably started with Paulo Freire, right? And of course Kohl's book, The Long Haul, co-written by the two of them, about Myles Horton, the American Freire. And there are a number of good books by Canadians, including Peter Sawchuk and David Livingstone's Hidden Knowledge. Helena Helena Worthen helena.worthen@berkeley.edu 21 San Mateo Road Berkeley, CA 94707 Visiting Scholar, UCB Center for Labor Research and Education 510-828-2745 On May 13, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Laure Kloetzer wrote: > I would like to extend Mike's question, as I am beginning a research on the > psychology of learning (adult learning). Which books/papers would you > consider remarkable regarding adult learning in the past 20 years ? > Best regards, > LK > > 2012/5/10 Cathrene Connery <cconnery@ithaca.edu> > >> Gordon Wells' Meaning Makers was also highly significant. >> >> Dr. Cathrene Connery >> Assistant Professor of Education >> Ithaca College >> Department of Education >> 194B Phillips Hall Annex >> 953 Danby Road >> Ithaca, New York 13850 >> Cconnery@ithaca.edu >> >> On May 10, 2012, at 5:56 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote: >> >>> Heath's Ways with Words would be near the top of my list. >>> __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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