Learning for Leadership

Chapter 1

Learning Leadership

This chapter will cover:

• findings about workplace learning

• educational theory terminology

• why adults learn best through interactive instruction

• major adult instructional approaches and the advantages of the facilitative approach

• trainee views of the pitfalls and promise of facilitative instruction.

DEVELOPMENTAL LEARNING THEORY

Great educators have long known that children’s learning capacities and motivations differ from those of adults, and grow just as their bodies do. Medieval rabbis traced letters ...