EDAD 5180 - Principles and Techniques for Teaching Adults (3)

This course is designed to provide a sound background from research data about the principles, methodology and instructional competencies which underlie the areas referred to as Adult Education. These areas include: (a) teaching basic skills to adults; (b) teaching adults to develop new insights, attitudes, skills and habits; (c) teaching adults to develop new skills and habits for utilizing leisure-voluntary and force; (d) teaching the adult to develop positive attitudes toward an acceptance of aging, illnesses and death; and (e) teaching adult citizens skills of thinking and learning, group dynamics and functional democracy.