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- Title
GIVE A DAMN ABOUT CONTINUING ADULT EDUCATION IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.
- Authors
Fisher, Frederick E.
- Abstract
The article presents views of the author on continuing adult education in public administration. It is difficult to deny one's own growth, experience and self-concepts. Certainly from a learning point of view things begin to change as one enters into and assumes responsibilities of adulthood. With it comes a termination of the full-time passive student role and the assumption of a role saying "I am now a doer." The individual's self-concept moves toward being a self-directed personality with a deepening need to be perceived by others as being self-directing. With this growth and maturation comes the need to be treated with respect, to be in charge of one's own decision process and to be seen as a unique individual. Adults tend to resist learning in circumstances that are incongruent with their self-concept as individual human beings. And yet, much adult education does not take this assumption into account. It must be recognized that self-directed learning is difficult. Adults, no matter how intense their self-realization needs might be, are usually not prepared for self-directed learning. They usually need to be brought through a process of orientation to learn how to learn.
- Subjects
CONTINUING education; PUBLIC administration; AMERICAN Society for Public Administration; ADULT education; SELF-actualization (Psychology); LEARNING; ORGANIZATIONAL change; CONCEPTS; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1973, Vol 33, Issue 6, p488
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/974559