1. LLG 2: GALIT COHEN, ANDREA WRIGHT, ELIZABETH UPHAM
ADULT LEARNING THEORY
LLG 2: GALIT COHEN, ANDREA WRIGHT, ELIZABETH UPHAM

2. BALANCING SCHOOL, HOME LIFE, AND WORK WITH ADULT LEARNING
Managing school, home life, and work with adult learning in the digital age is a balancing act.
Tips for successfully ‘doing it all’ and how Adult Learning Theories are integrated will be shared.

3. BALANCING SCHOOL, HOME LIFE, AND WORK WITH ADULT LEARNING
TIP:
“Review life, work, family commitments, and travel before enrolling in a class or semester.”

4. BALANCING SCHOOL, HOME LIFE, AND WORK WITH ADULT LEARNING
All genuine education comes about through experience.
Skinner’s operant conditioning is conducive to making it all work and facilitating learning.
Jarvis model of learning is social, interactive phenomenon, and involves mind/body/history.
(Merriam, Caffarella, & Baumgartner 2007).

5. BALANCING SCHOOL, HOME LIFE, AND WORK WITH ADULT LEARNING
Even as adults, we don’t have control on many issues or our lives.
We can become bombarded with external pressures from school and work and quickly burnout
As busy adults, must find ways to deal with erratic predicaments as the arise

6. BALANCING SCHOOL, HOME LIFE, AND WORK WITH ADULT LEARNING
TIPS:
Accept that there is never going to be complete, harmonious balance
Shuffle your priorities as necessary
Reinforce your personal support system
Cut yourself some slack!
“You time” is essential and NOT selfish

7. BALANCING SCHOOL, HOME LIFE, AND WORK WITH ADULT LEARNING
TIP:
UNPLUG “Take time to be in the moment and enjoy family, friends, and environment”

8. BALANCING SCHOOL, HOME LIFE, AND WORK WITH ADULT LEARNING
McClusky’s Theory of Margin focuses on the relationship between load and power
Margin = (Load/Power)
The more margin one has the better he/she can deal with the load
Load Factors
Power Factors
Consist of Internal/External Factors
Career
Socio-Economic status
Goals
Personal Expectations
Physical -- strength, energy, health
Social -- ability to relate to others
Mental -- ability to think, reason
Economic -- money, position, influence
Skills -- what the individual knows how to do

9. Open Forum
What are some tips and tricks you used to balance you out work, life and school?

10. REFERENCES
Merriam, S. B., Caffarella, R. S., & Baumgartner, L. M. (2007). Learning in adulthood: A comprehensive guide. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
McClusky, H. Y. (1974). Education for aging: The scope of the field and perspectives for the future. Grabowski & W. D. Mason (Eds.), Learning for aging (pp ). Washington, DC: Adult Education Association of the USA.