📚 Adult Learning

Books with adult learning on their catalogue record, first published between 1988 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject adult learning in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 774 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Psychology and adult learning	Mark Tennant	1988	23
	The Adult Learner	Malcolm S. Knowles	2005	14
	Learning in adulthood	Sharan B. Merriam	1991	12
	Education for Adults	Malcolm Tight	2012	12
	Teaching and learning in further education	Prue Huddleston	2002	11
	New Beginnings	Linda Simon	1998	9
	Self-directed learning	Merryl Hammond	1991	8
	Culture and processes of adult learning	Mary Thorpe	1993	7
	Working with Experience	David Boud	1996	7
	Adult Education and the Postmodern Challenge	Ian Bryant	1997	7
	Reconstructing the lifelong learner	Mark Tennant	2003	7
	Contemporary Theories of Learning	Knud Illeris	2009	7
	Award in Education and Training	Ann Gravells	2013	7
	Adult learning, adult teaching	John Daines	1988	6
	The adult student's guide to survival & success	Al Siebert	1996	6
	Adults' Mathematical Thinking and Emotions	Jeff Evans	2002	6
	Making Sense of Lifelong Learning	Norman Evans	2003	6
	From Teaching to Mentoring	Lee Herman	2005	6
	The transfer of learning	Sarah Leberman	2006	6
	Preparing to teach in the lifelong learning sector	Ann Gravells	2007	6
	Reconceptualising Lifelong Learning	Sue Jackson	2007	6
	Paradoxes of Learning	Peter Jarvis	2012	6
	Teaching, Coaching and Mentoring Adult Learners	Heather Fehring	2016	6
	Learning, Development and Education	Knud Illeris	2016	6
	Self-directed learning	Huey B. Long	1988	5
	Adult Learning Methods	Michael W. Galbraith	1991	5
	Rethinking contexts for learning and teaching	Richard Edwards	2009	5
	Theories of Learning for the Workplace	Filip Dochy	2012	5
	Adult learning	Sharan B. Merriam	2013	5
	Redefining Post-Traditional Learning	Lorie Cook-Benjamin	2019	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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