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Peer reviewedMerriam, Sharan B.; And Others – Studies in Continuing Education, 1996
Interviews with 18 adults who identified negative outcomes from life experience learning showed that, if experience challenges self-definition, growth-inhibiting responses develop. When the threat to self is reduced, growth may result from negative experiences. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Emotional Response, Experiential Learning
Peer reviewedMerriam, Sharan B.; Clark, M. Carolyn – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1993
A survey of 405 adults and interviews with 19 showed the majority of learning experiences were informal. For learning to be significant, it must personally affect the learner by expanding skills or causing a transformation, and it must be subjectively valued by the learner. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Change Agents, Educational Attitudes
