Rothwell Chapter 1
Brockett Chapter 1
Marcia Eames-Sheavly Courage to Learn
Spalding How to Teach Adults
Student Companion to CEL
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  • This may be as natural for humans as breathing

What is learning?

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This emotion, along with excitement and satisfaction, can be a major reward of teaching adults.

What is joy?

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The four fundamental questions explored in this book mirror Palmer's work but focus on this side of education.

What is the learning process?

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The author will get no love from K-12 teachers for saying this.

What is “teaching grown-ups is more fun than teaching kids”?

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  • It “pushes” knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are essential to success.

What is training?

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The author initially struggled with this term for adult educators because it brought up images of elementary and secondary classrooms.

What is "teacher"?

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This type of knowledge is considered emancipatory and seeks to develop learner agency and autonomy.

What is transformative learning?

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  • According to this author, an emotional response is the best indication that students are in this.

What is “their discomfort zone”?

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With the acceleration of change since the rise of the internet, this is falling.

What is the half-life of knowledge?

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In workplace settings, this term is commonly used instead of "teacher" because it often involves instruction in skills and procedures.

What is "trainer"?

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The authors describe learning as having these seemingly contradictory characteristics, showing its complex nature.

What are sad and joyful? Or, What are intellectual and embodied?

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  • Struggling with your field of study does this. (Two possible replies)

What is “helps you teach it”?

What is “deepens your compassion for your students?”

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Managers, and most people, have not been given instruction on ….

What are effective ways to learn?

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This term is preferred by some adult educators because it implies guiding learners rather than telling them what to do, though some consider it a weak descriptor.

What is "facilitator"?

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This concept is defined as the capacity of learners to recognize learning's full complexity and act on that awareness with agency and self-determination.

What is courage?

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  • The original title of the book was this.

What is “Teaching will make you feel like an idiot”?

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  • Research by Allen Tough revealed that the typical adult undertakes at least more than one of these each year to solve real-time work or life problems.

What are learning projects?

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  • Statement: Brockett felt both of these after his first teaching session.

What are “a sense of failure and a desire to try again”?

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The four fundamental questions explored in this book mirror Palmer's work but focus on this side of education.

What is the learning process?

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This is what Buddhists call the practice of always being open to learn new things.

What is “beginner’s mind?”

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