Adult Learning and Development Multicultural Stories

Name: Adult Learning and Development Multicultural Stories
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ISBN: 9781575240978

ISBN-10: 1575240971

ISBN-13: 9781575240978

Edition: 2000

Authors: Sharan B. Merriam, Lisa Baumgartner

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Recognizing the role of sociocultural and psychological factors in shaping people's lives, this is an anthology of culturally diverse stories and poems. It illustrates six themes of adult development: intimacy; the family cycle; physical development; health and ageing; and learning in adulthood.

Book details

List price: $28.50
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Sharan B. Merriam is professor of adult education at the University of Georgia.Ralph G. Brockett is professor of adult education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
About the Editors	p. xv
About the Authors	p. xvii
Identity	p. 1
A Sistah Outsider	p. 8
Are You Writing A Book?	p. 24
Flip-Flops	p. 27
You're Short, Besides	p. 31
A Dictionary of Japanese-American Terms	p. 39
Three Steps A Minute	p. 45
How I Got to Be Jewish	p. 52
Dear Aunt Nanadine	p. 63
The Importance of Work	p. 71
Learning to Work	p. 77
Sweetheart	p. 85
Piece Work	p. 91
Intimacy	p. 95
The Linden Tree	p. 101
Church	p. 114
Is This the Reward of A Catholic Girlhood?	p. 124
Between	p. 129
First Love	p. 142
The Family Life Cycle	p. 155
The Management of Grief	p. 161
This Place	p. 176
The Storyteller	p. 190
1895 Honeymoon Hotel	p. 204
Groom Service	p. 212
Physical Development, Health and Aging	p. 225
What I Know from Noses	p. 231
Finch the Spastic Speaks	p. 235
Combustion	p. 247
The Hector Quesadilla Story	p. 249
Learning in Adulthood	p. 261
La Tortillera	p. 267
Talking to the Dead	p. 271
Mountain Biking and the Pleasures of Balance	p. 281
References	p. 287
Acknowledgment for Permissions	p. 291
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