title: Purposes, values and objectives in adult education--the post-basic perspective.
abstract: In the light of increasing calls for nurse education to adopt an education model based on the principles of adult learning this paper examines the place of objectives in adult education and how they relate to the general purposes and values in education. The development of the use of objectives is discussed from its origins in the behaviourist school of thought through to the more recent approach adopted by those purporting to embrace the principles of adult education. Implications for the use of objectives in nurse education, and in particular post-basic nurse education, are then considered.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Gerrish
mesh_terms: D001525:Behavioral Sciences; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006040:Goals; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008960:Models, Psychological