This research purports to portray how adult graduate students experience life changes through graduate learning. Two key questions are raised in this research: can adults change through learning? can part time adult graduate students experience life c...
This research purports to portray how adult graduate students experience life changes through graduate learning. Two key questions are raised in this research: can adults change through learning? can part time adult graduate students experience life changes through graduate learning? To answer the questions, adult graduate students' motivation to participate graduate learning, their learning responses including their attitudes toward graduate learning, their changes as a result of graduate learning are examined.
Firstly, this research tells that adults do experience life changes through learning, which confirms that adults can change through learning. Adults' unconscious or external motivation to participate learning changes positively as they engage in learning. Their indifferent and ignoring attitude toward learning do change as they experience learning. This research offers deep description of how adults experience changes through learning.
Secondly, this research shows that adults' graduate learning leads to adult graduate students to make practical efforts to change their lives, which helps to clarify the meaning of graduate learning for adults. Graduate learning for adults are not limited to attain cognitive knowledge but expand to attain practical knowledge. Moreover, this research contribute to reconsider the role and meaning of graduate learning for adults.