The Adult Learner's Companion - Softcover

Davies, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618474668 ISBN 13: 9780618474660

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2006

Synopsis

Adult learners face unique challenges--work, family, and the numerous responsibilities and obligations that they must juggle while pursuing a degree. With limited time and financial resources, adult learners need to know where and how to get help quickly and easily, and who to turn to when they have questions. The Adult Learner's Companion helps students navigate the challenges they encounter, using an accessible, user-friendly style that is both encouraging and motivating. Author Deborah Davis, a former adult student, provides a concise manual that helps adult learners navigate their way through the college experience, while providing the skills necessary for academic achievement. The Adult Learner's Companion takes into account knowledge gained through life experience and suggests how work-related experience can be applied in the classroom. Use the text in any Student Success or first-year seminar course with an adult learner or non-traditional student population.

About this title

Synopsis:

Unlike the traditional student, adult learners face a different set of challenges when achieving success in their studies. Often they are employed either full or part time, have a family and must juggle numerous responsibilities and obligations with limited time and financial resources. Consequently, adult learners need to know where and how to get help and who to ask for help - quickly and easily. The author, a former adult student herself, presents the material in an accessible, student-friendly style that is both encouraging and motivating. The result is a concise manual that helps adult learners navigate their way through the college experience, while providing the skills necessary for academic achievement. Skills of particular interest to adult learners include: Goal setting; Time management (balancing family, school, work); Test-taking; Writing and composition. "The Adult Learner's Companion" takes into account knowledge gained through life experience and suggests how work-related experience can be applied in the classroom.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0618474668
• ISBN 13: 9780618474660
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 208