The Nature of Counseling Expertise in Adult Education Practice

Abstract

Through extensive diagnoses and analyses, practicing adult educators identified 63 areas of knowledge, attitude, and skill which they believed would help them to work more effectively with people on many levels and in many situations. The needs were judged to be part of the counseling process. Much of the knowledge, attitudes, and skills identified is not being provided in graduate adult education programs and could represent needs brought about by the ever changing social milieu of adult education.

Based upon the outcomes of the diagnoses, a potentially useful label has been suggested which interpolates counseling expertise into adult education terminology. The term is "interpersonal expertise" and is based upon the assump tions, philosophies, and processes of the field of adult education.

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