Possible Selves and Adult Learning - Perspectives and Potential

Name: Possible Selves and Adult Learning - Perspectives and Potential
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ISBN: 9780470183298

ISBN-10: 0470183292

ISBN-13: 9780470183298

Edition: 2007

Authors: Marsha Rossiter, Marsha Rossiter

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This issue introduces practitioners, scholars and students to the construct of possible selves and its potential applications in the field of adult education. The possible selves construct offers a useful and largely unexplored framework for understanding adult learning as the medium through which change, growth and goal achievement occur. The chapters in this volume outline in practical terms the research-based applications of possible selves that have relevance fo adult educators. Introduced by Hazel Markus and Paula Nurius in 1986, possible selves refer to the future-oriented components of an individual's self-concept; they are imagined future selves, including the selves that are…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Editor's Notes




Possible Selves: An Adult Education Perspective




Future Time Perspective, Possible Selves, and Academic Achievement




Lost and Found Possible Selves: Goals, Development, and Well-Being




Reaching for the Future: The Education-Focused Possible Selves of Low-Income Mothers




Gender and Possible Selves




Possible Selves and Career Transition: It's Who You Want to Be, Not What You Want to Do




Mentoring Adult Learners: Realizing Possible Selves




Possible Selves in Adult Education



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