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Linden West
Beyond Fragments [EPUB ebook]
Adults, Motivation And Higher Education

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Adults now constitute the majority of students in higher education; what they bring to it, want and need are important questions in the development of a more responsive higher education. The author discusses The Relationship Between Motives, Education, And Life History To Explore how culture and history shape people and their motives for learning, taking into account variations in gender, social background and ethnicity, challenging the orthodox view that non-traditional students enter higher educational for vocational/material reasons.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 250 ● ISBN 9781136350238 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2590434 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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