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Beyond Fragments: Adults, Motivation And Higher Education
Author(s): Linden West (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 19 Sept. 1996
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0748404864
- ISBN-13: 9780748404865
Book Description
The Author Discusses The Relationship Between Motives, Education And Life history to explore how they shape people and their motives for learning, challenging the orthodox view that non-traditional students enter education for purely
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘… [a] thorough and revealing study of adult students in higher education. West’s study is worth singling out because, apart from its other virtues, it makes us stop and think about some of the ways in which people cateogorise learning and actively tackle it within the context of their daily lives, challenging us to look again at our interpretation of survey and other data … Linden West’s vivid and moving portrait of learner identities…’ – Professor John Field, University of Warwick, for Adults’ Learning
About the Author
Linden West
