Tabla de Contenidos:
  • MALCOLM SHEPHERD KNOWLES: A HISTORY OF HIS THOUGHT
  • MALCOLM SHEPHERD KNOWLES: A HISTORY OF HIS THOUGHT
  • DEDICATION
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • THE EVOLUTION OF A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Developmental Sequence of Ideas
  • Outline of Chapters 2 to 7
  • A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
  • Early Years
  • Harvard Years
  • Between Studies
  • Graduate Years
  • The Professorial Years
  • Retirement
  • Conclusion
  • THE YEARS LEADING UP TO 1950
  • The Educational Background
  • Exposure to New Ideas
  • The Search for a Unifying Principle THE INITIAL THINKING (PHASE 1)
  • INFORMAL ADULT EDUCATION (1950)
  • The Challenges
  • Aims of the Work
  • The Urgency of the Adult-Educational Task
  • Educational and Philosophical Goals
  • Knowlesâ€? Philosophy
  • The Individualâ€?s Need for Growth
  • The Teaching-Learning Transaction
  • Group Dynamics
  • Group Discussion
  • Group Leadership
  • Conclusion
  • THE WRITINGS FROM 1954 TO 1959
  • The Age of Adult Education
  • Post-War Growth in Adult Education Enrolments
  • A New Awareness of the Characteristics of Adults as Learners The Adult Education Association of the United States of America
  • Knowlesâ€? Writings
  • Teaching Adults in Informal Courses (1954)
  • How to Develop Better Leaders (1955)
  • Aims of the Work
  • The Shared Role of Leadership
  • Leadership Training Dimensions
  • Group Self-Training
  • Principles for Supervisors
  • Human Resource Development
  • Conclusion
  • Introduction to Group Dynamics (1959)
  • Major Influences
  • The Need to Deal with Change
  • Group Dynamics as Practical Knowledge Leadership and the Possibility of Manipulation
  • The Group as an Expression of Common Identity and Purpose
  • Conclusion
  • SUMMARY OF PHASE 1 THINKING
  • Aims
  • Philosophy of Education
  • Group Dynamics
  • Leadership
  • The Teaching-Learning Transaction
  • Contributions to the 1970 Andragogical Framework
  • THE EMERGING FRAMEWORK (PHASE 2)
  • THE WRITINGS FROM 1960 TO 1962
  • Handbook of Adult Education in the United States (1960)
  • Typology of Adult Learning Programs
  • Six Principles of Adult Learning Conclusion
  • The Leader Looks at Self-Development (1961)
  • The Search for Personal Authenticity
  • Leadership Competencies: A Knowledge Hierarchy
  • The Process of Self-Development
  • Principles of Learning and Self-Development
  • Conclusion
  • The Adult Education Movement in the United States (1962)
  • Aims of the Work
  • Defining the Term “Adult Educationâ€?
  • Adult-Child Learning Differences
  • Predictions for the Near Future
  • Assumptions for the Education of Youth