Date of Award
8-31-2003
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS)
Department
Liberal Studies
First Advisor
Bret Ingerman
Second Advisor
Lawrence Ries
Abstract
Adult learning and achievement in technology education can be enhanced through the process of integrated learning, rather than through learning skills in isolation. An integrated learning program helps provide the opportunity for instructors to help their students make connections and form relationships across the boundaries of classroom, discipline, skill, and background. Situated cognition refers to the idea that cognitive processes (including thinking and learning) are located in physical and social contexts. By providing technology education using information contexts (histories, stories, explanations, backgrounds), adult learners can draw on both what they have learned in life and are learning in the classroom.
Recommended Citation
Lawson, Karen K., "Technology Education and Integrated Learning for Adult Learners" (2003). MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019. 28.
https://creativematter.skidmore.edu/mals_stu_schol/28
Included in
Adult and Continuing Education Administration Commons, Science and Technology Studies Commons