Teaching and Learning for Adult Skill Acquisition

<p>The book <em>Teaching and Learning for Adult Skill Acquisition: Applying the Dreyfus and Dreyfus Model in Different Fields </em>will fill a unique niche in the field of adult higher and workforce education. It offers a current volume for scholars and practitioners based on both empirical studies and practice-based research on adult skill acquisition and development. Dreyfus and Dreyfus (1980 1988 2004 2008) developed the novice to expert model of skill acquisition that illustrates growth over the course of a person's career in a particular domain. The skill model highlights a learner's movement across six levels of skill development: novice advanced beginner competent proficient expert and mastery. </p><p> </p><p>This book will present examples of the application of the Dreyfus and Dreyfus model in different fields (i.e. health care education law enforcement business serious gaming military ethics training etc.) providing insight into how practitioners can develop their skills in their particular domains and how educators can promote this development. This collection will be appropriate for a wide variety of professors researchers practitioners and students in the field of adult higher and workforce education.</p>