Career Development and Training – choose 3 – 5 specific program components of an educational program (e.g. class session, course, or training of which you are familiar). Then you will convince the reader why the adult learning and the adult development theories support the program components. If you find that the program components are not supported by theory, you will make recommendations to improve the components based on your research.
Compose a scholarly paper that incorporates the following:
Cover page
Introduction
Describe in detail the particular educational program you are going to analyze.
Explain the 3- 5 specific program components that you will address. (for example, program components might be presentation of content such as lecture, cooperative groups, hybrid, online; assignments such as team projects, scholarly papers, discussion groups; grading procedures, quizzes, rubrics, etc.)
Introduce the developmental and learning theories that you will be using to analyze the program components.
Body
Apply a developmental and a learning theory to the educational program and specific program components. How can the theories support or inform practice?
Provide specific examples of the program components and how they demonstrate or do not demonstrate the theories.
Conclusion
Evaluate the theory or theories by explaining how specific program components are informed (or not informed) by those theories.
If you discover and determine that the program components are not supported by theories, then provide recommendations to the educational program.
Defend or refute the strength of the one theory over another.
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Merriam, S. B., Caffarella, R. S., & Baumgartner, L. M. (2007). Learning in adulthood: A
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Kegan, R. (1994). Chapter 1: The Hidden Curriculum of Youth: “Whaddaya Want from Me?” In Over Our Heads, the mental demands of modern life. (pp.15-36). London, England: Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts: President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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Merriam, S. B., Caffarella, R. S., & Baumgartner, L. M. (2007). Learning in adulthood: A comprehensive guide (3rd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Taylor, B. (1995). Self-Directed Learning: Revisiting an Idea Most Appropriate for Middle School Students. Paper presented at the Combined Meeting of the Great Lakes and Southeast International Reading Association, Nashville, TN, Nov 11-15. [ED 395 287]. Retrieved March 19, 2015, from http://www.ericdigests.org/2002-3/self.htm
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