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A 5 page paper assessing and supporting the statement “that a systematically collected knowledge base illuminates practice” (Merriam and Caffarella, 1999) among adult learners. The paper discusses the need for ongoing education; adult learners’ developmental and readiness stages; and what types of information that adults see as being relevant to them. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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published in 1949 titled How to Study Physics encourages learners to continue to learn. The 1955 edition exhorts students to welcome the math portion of physics study, and to
learn to derive formulas rather than simply memorize them. The author writes in defense of understanding concepts, "most of the technological information you have when you leave college gradually
will become obsolete. If all you have learned in college is the end result, you, too, will become obsolete" (Chapman, 1996 [1955]). The only caveat that needs to be
added for this to be relevant today is that technological information change no longer happens gradually. Other professors in areas of changing environment and conditions urge students to "Read,
read, read" on leaving school, but note with distress that few make the time. These statements are here to support agreement with Merriam
and Caffarellas (1999) second position "that a systematically collected knowledge base illuminates practice" (p. 402). In education, individual teachers and researchers devise new approaches and synthesize new insights in
teaching old subjects in environments that continually change to populations in flux in abilities, motivation and cultural composition. Research into Practice Education seems
to provide one of todays most dynamic approaches to the systematic collection of knowledge in an environment in which that knowledge is collected with the goal of informing and changing
current practice. The primary position of empirical research is that it has value if it only contributes to the existing knowledge base. Education is one of the disciplines
most open to examining such evidence and altering practice according to the findings of well-designed and well-executed research. There is some research published
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