Transformational Learning Theory has been particularly useful for adult learning because adults continuously interpret and reinterpret their experiences from a developmental and critical perspective. Therefore how do we employ these amusing and emergent issues in language instructions?
This was a great lecture on Adult Learning. Looking forward to more. I do, though, disagree with your inference that learning by this method can't or doesn't use all the principles of learning and strategies. There are ways to modulate it in order to allow for deeper, more effective learning.
Yopra, while I agree with you, I think its important to remember that healthcare professionals have trained to care for patients and families. Most have not received formal training in education. This is no different than a physics professor or an engineering professor. I'm very grateful for the fantastic skills that healthcare professionals have taken years to develop, those are skills I don't have nor do I want to have. Nearly all of the healthcare professionals I am privileged to work with want to be better teachers, many just don't know how. As educators, it's our job to help them.
