Handbook of adult development and learning / edited by Carol Hoare.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoare, Carol Hren.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adulthood--Psychological aspects.

Adulthood.

Learning, Psychology of.

Adult learning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (598 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The fields of psychology of aging and adult development have considered cognitive topics, such as concerns of work and retirement, and issues related to coping and bereavement. Meanwhile, the field of adult learning considers applied perspective topics. This book focuses on the dovetailing of adult development and learning.

Contents:

Growing a discipline at the borders of thought / Carol Hoare

Learning and development : the connection in adulthood / Sharan B. Merriam and M. Carolyn Clark

Research design and methodological issues for adult development and learning / Grace I.L. Caskie and Sherry L. Willis

Development of reflective judgment in adulthood / Karen Strohm Kitchener, Patricia M. King, and Sonia DeLuca

Intellectual development across adulthood / K. Warner Schaie and Faika A.K. Zanjani

Emotional development in adulthood : a developmental functionalist review and critique / Nathan S. Consedine and Carol Magai

Motivation and interpersonal regulation across adulthood : managing the challenges and constraints of social contexts / Frieder R. Lang and Jutta Heckhausen

Self-efficacy and adult development / Daniel Cervone, Daniele Artistico, and Jane M. Berry

Autonomy and self-directed learning : a developmental journey / Kathleen Taylor

Adult development, learning, and insight through psychotherapy : the cultivation of change and transformation / Melvin E. Miller

Creativity through the life span from an evolutionary systems perspective / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura

Illuminating major creative scientific innovators with postformal stages / Michael Lamport Commons and Linda Marie Bresette

Laughing at gilded butterfiles : integrating wisdom, development, and learning / Caroline L. Bassett

Spiritual development in adulthood : key concepts and models / Ronald R. Irwin

Effects of children on adult development and learning : parenthood and beyond / Jack Demick

Work as the catalyst of reciprocal adult development and learning : identity and personality / Carol Hoare

The importance of feeling whole : learning to "feel connected", community, and adult development / Jan D. Sinnott and Debra Berlanstein

Culture, learning, and adult development / Heidi Keller and Anne Werchan

The meaning and measurement of conceptual development in adulthood / Theo L. Dawson-Tunik

Advanced avenues in adult development and learning : the role of doctoral study / Judith Stevens-Long and Robert Barner

The evolution of professional competence / Garrett McAuliffe

Adult holistic development and multidimensional performance / Glen Rogers, Marcia Mentkowski, and Judith Reisetter Hart.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-84379-9

0-19-803837-2

1-4294-2047-2

OCLC:

476007654