| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) |
| Contents |
Theories of learning and the range of autodidactism / Joan Solomon -- Are autodidacts creative? / Margaret Boden -- Children in an Interactive Science Centre / Helen Brooke and Joan Solomon -- Do autodidacts have EBD? / Paul Howard -- Homo Ludens / Robin Hodgkin -- Learning to be a genetic counsellor: patterns of life-world knowledge / Vivian Leyser Da Rosa and Joan Solomon -- Apprenticeship and lifelong learning: autodidactism in the workplace / Richard Edwards -- Learning autonomously to be a primary teacher of science / Stephen Lunn -- The scientist as autodidact / John Ziman -- The autodidactic museum in France and other countries / Paul Caro -- The useful arts / Tim Hunkin -- Indian market women and their mathematics / Anita Rampal -- How does resource-based learning help the self-directed learner? / Eileen Scanlon -- Learning through project work at the University of Roskilde / Albert Paulsen -- A long life of learning / Jack Diamond -- Common features / Joan Solomon -- Useful theories, great and small / Joan Solomon -- Epilogue / Joan Solomon |
| Summary |
This inquiry into autodidactism provided fresh insight into the motivation to learn. Beginning and ending with comprehensive and stimulating discussions of learning theories, it includes fourteen case studies of autodidactism in informal learning |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Self-culture.
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Motivation in education.
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Learning, Psychology of.
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Non-formal education.
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EDUCATION -- Educational Psychology.
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Learning, Psychology of
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Motivation in education
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Non-formal education
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Self-culture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Solomon, Joan, 1932-
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| ISBN |
0203329104 |
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9780203329108 |
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9780415304184 |
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0415304180 |
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