Overview of Training Practices Incorporating Adult Learning. Annotated Bibliography on Adult Learning.

Overview & Synopsis

This document--an annotated bibliography on adult learning--is one in a series of four developed to provide a comprehensive overview of the scope of training practices relating to adult learning. It presents brief reviews of approximately eighty selected books and other published materials that relate to adult learning, adult education, and inservice training. For each item the following information is provided: author(s) or editor(s), title, place of publication, publisher, date of publication, and annotation. Any special features of the book, such as essays or reviews of some aspect of adult learning, are pointed out in the annotations. Topics of materials include lifelong learning, recurrent education, adult learning theory, learning styles, adult learner needs, creativity, adult education approaches and practices, volunteerism, community education, nontraditional education, curriculum development, inservice education trends, teacher education, higher education involvement, and faculty renewal. (YLB)