Development theory could help guide your education
and outreach planning. Review this summary to help refine program
goals and objectives. To the extent possible, this summary
provides information about planning, implementation, evaluation;
indicators and benchmarks; key strategies; tools; and references.
BEST EDUCATION PRACTICES DERIVED FROM DEVELOPMENT THEORY [in development]
REFERENCES [in development]
Recommendations will be drawn from these and other resources:
Adult development information is presented in:
Learning in Adulthood, Sharan Merriam and Rosemary
Caffarella. 1999.
A single youth development resource has not been selected
to date but web site content will reference resources such
as:
The Acquisition and Retention of Knowledge: A Cognitive
View by D. Ausubel, 2000.
The unschooled mind: How children think and how schools
should teach by H. Gardner, 1991.
A theory of cognitive development: The control and
construction of hierarchies of skills by K. W. Fischer,
1980.
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