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Adult Learning By Peter B. Vaill: Chapter Analysis

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Sakinah Jackson
Adult Learning
Professor Ventola
October 18, 2015
Learning as a way of being, chapter 1 and 2, the author Peter B. Vaill expounds his idea of learning and teaching effectively in an environment with perpetual discord and contingent occurrences. The unstable environment, caused by interwoven social and technical factors, termed by Vaill as the permanent white water, has increasingly undermined the traditional institutional learning guide. According to Vaill, the model for institutional learning confines behaviors and actions limiting the ability for lifelong learning. The existing model, illustrates learning as an institutional activity that is painful, and a demanding, and straining goals are chosen by other individuals instead
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