Learning and education play a fundamental role in effective patient care. Better adherence to treatment and outcomes are strongly tied to a sound understanding of the critical aspects of a disease and ...

Malcolm Shepherd Knowles, a University of Chicago graduate widely acknowledged as a founder, beginning in Chicago, of adult education as a separate discipline, has died. He was 84. Mr. Knowles, of ...

British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1993), pp. 21-37 (17 pages) Adult education research has tended to concentrate on the pragmatics of facilitating learning and developing ...

Education ended at the Leaving Cert for most people in the 1980s. Now, though, a wide range of opportunities are catering to people who don't want to stop learning, writes Louise Holden In 1987 adults ...