Adult interests / Edward L. Thorndike.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee), 1874-1949, author.

Series:

Studies in adult education (Macmillan Company)

Studies in adult education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adult education.

Interest (Psychology).

Attitude (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : The Macmillan Company, 1935.

Summary:

This book by Dr. Thorndike and his coworkers is a sequel to the volume entitled "Adult Learning" and performs a similar service for anybody who is interested in improving his own interests or those of other in adult years. This book states the main results of experiments carried out in 1931 to 1934 on changes in the intensity of interests with age, on the possibility of modifying and improving interests in adult years, and on means and methods of doing this effectively. Facts are also presented concerning individual differences in interests among adults, and differences between old and young. There are practical discussions of the means and methods desirable in the teaching of adults.

Contents:

Introduction

Changes in the intensity of interests with age

The control of adult interests

The control of adult interests (continued)

Learning what is intrinsically uninteresting

Interest in the constituent elements of a topic or activity

Differences between young adults and old in interests and attitudes

Inventories of adult likes and dislikes

Individual differences among adults

Interest and the distribution of adult education

Interest and the curriculum of part-time adult education

Methods of teaching adults.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.