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The Adult Learner - The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development Malcolm S. Knowles, Elwood F. Holton III and Richard A. Swanson, Elsevier-Butterworth Heinemann, San Diego, CA and London, 2005, ISBN: 0750678372, 378 pp., £25.99 (UK). $39.95 (USA)
Review DOI 10.1108/00197850510626857
Keywords: Learning, Adult education, Human resource development
This book is the 6th edition of what it terms a definitive classic in the field of adult learning, education and human resource development (HRD), the first edition having been published in 1973 and the 5th edition in 1998. Malcolm Knowles' original thinking and concepts are built on by two respected American academics, Richard Holton...