EFFECTIVE TRAINING OF ADULTS EMPLOYING OR

In response to this situation, employing organizations have resorted to both the overseas recruitment of workers (Suro, 1989), and to borrowing workers from competitors (Oram, 1989). As neither of these tactics, either alone or together, offer a solution to the problem, and, as educational reform always seems to be just a little way off, many employers have developed inhouse training programs to qualify the unqualified (Sa, 1989; Rohan, 1988). Unfortunately, many of these inhouse training and education programs have been less than successful in meeting their objectives (Schoultz, 1986).

A part of the problem facing organizational trainers lies in the level of illiteracy in the American labor pool (Torrence and Torerence, 1987). A major part of the problem

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modators (Type 4 learning style) tend to rely most heavily on the CE (concrete experiences) and AE (active experimentation) learning modes. Accomodators are the doers of the world, who excell in carrying out plans, and who thrive on new experiences. Adaptation is a major characteristic of the accomodator's behavior, and, while accomodators tend to like people, they also tend to be impatient with them. The wide variations in the approach to learning which characterize the four learning style types discussed above pose significant problems for the teacher in almost any field. The significantly different approaches to learning imply that rates of information and skills acquisition may be expected to vary widely among most groups of students, and that variations in teaching and assessment strategies may be desirable. Principles of Adult Education Two fundamental aproaches to education are pedagogythe teaching of children, and andragogy, which is useful in the education of adults. An individual is defined as an adult within a framework of psychological and social criteria (Raudonis, 1987). Within the social context, an individual is considered to be an adult, when one performs "social roles typically assigned by our cult
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