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Framing the Role of Culture Reflecting on How Culture Affects Learners in Transformative Learning Settings: The Adult Learner Culture Defined

Framing the Role of Culture Reflecting on How Culture Affects Learners in Transformative Learning Settings: The Adult Learner Culture Defined
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Author(s): Priscilla Bamba (Grand Canyon University, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 15
Source title: Multicultural Andragogy for Transformative Learning
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): David P. Peltz (University of Phoenix, USA)and Anthony C. Clemons (Columbia University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3474-7.ch003

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Abstract

From the simplest cell phone to virtual reality headsets, students today are bombarded by technology, so this is bound to affect their expectations in the learning environment and the way they relate to cognitive challenges. Today's culture is an immersion of advanced methods of communicating with each other and with their instructors. Adult learners who return to the world of higher education after having been away for some time have often felt the need to strive harder to show they fit into that world. With a broader worldview, more responsibilities, and often more wisdom gained from having held jobs, sometimes for years, they also bring a richer way of relating to the academic world. At the same, time, though, sometimes responsibilities, including full family lives, limit their time and energy they are capable of devoting to studying and completing assignments.

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