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Research On Adult Learning And Adult Personality Development In Constructing Learning Organizations

Posted on:2013-02-24Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:L Y ShuaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117330374967766Subject:Adult Education
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The paper, which is Research on Adult Learning and Adult Personality Development in Constructing Learning Organizations, has focused on practical adult learning, has analyzed the changing and developing about adult personality, when adults have learned a lot in learning organizations, in order to display the process, the method, and the effect, to find the characteristics, the regulation, to direct the practice in adult learning.1. The intention and the purportProfessors in the west have had the research and the practice on learning organizations in20years, and more than10years in China also, since Peter M.Senge has published his "The Fifth Discipline" work in1990. But they still have been newborn things in their theory and application, and need to be cultured. We are also able to know that many researchers have attached importance to adult learning, have got much achievement in the theory, but only in adult education, adult learning has been ignored when it extends in other fields, therefore my paper thinks much of adult learning in learning organizations. The paper has made a link between adult personality development and adult learning after researching in philosophy, psychology, sociology, and education on the theory research.2. The probe and the innovationThe paper have been groping and innovative, Firstly it is innovative that the paper studies adult learning with learning organizations, because there still is disputing, whether adult learning and learning society have combination with learning organizations or do not, the topic of the paper among the papers of PHD has not many. Secondly the merging and applying of multi-theories, which relate to psychology, sociology, adult education and so on, in adult education appear original. Thirdly the paper has established the analysis frame, which contains three dimensions and six factors as the tool for the study, this frame is creative originally.I published three articles in the journals during the research, the article, which was Research on Adult Learning from Multiple Perspectives, was printed on Open Education Research, the1issue in2012, the article on Research on Organizational Learning Culture was printed on Vocational and Technical Education Forum, the10issue in2012, the article on Creating Learning Organizational, Promoting Innovation and Development to Cultivate Organizational Culture was printed on Lifelong Learning, the4issue in2011. 3. The idea and the structureAccording to the question I found when researching, the theme of the paper had been determined by it. The paper emphasizes conjunction between theory and practice, and multi-subjects application. There are four sections, eleven chapters in the paper. The first section includes the origin, the assumption, and the method in study, and has two chapters. The second section has two chapters also, that are the conception analysis, and the literature summary, it has researched bases for the assumption, has got the meaning, the characteristic, the area, the function in the research. The third section has four chapters, that has researched to two offices and two enterprises. I have conversation with eight persons, that they have taken part in learning organizational practice, actually I have talked with nineteen persons that are learning adults, have visited the seven of the offices and the enterprises which all practice in learning organizations, for finding some characteristics, regulations of adult learning in the case study. The fourth section has three chapters, the two chapters at the former research the actions between adult learning and adult personality development, based on the case study. The final chapter brings forward suggestions about the learning teams, and organizational learning culture, according to demerits in the learning organizations, the recommendations may have benefits for the practice.
Keywords/Search Tags:Learning Organization, Adult Learning, Adult Personality Development, Research
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