From the article, "Teaching Learners to be Self-Directed"

by Gerald Grow, Ph.D.
School of Journalism, Media & Graphic Arts
Florida A&M University
Tallahassee, FL 32307 USA

available at: http://www.longleaf.net/ggrow

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Notes

An earlier version of this paper was presented at a lively meeting of the Fourth International Symposium on Adult Self-Directed Learning in Norman, Oklahoma, February, 1990.

As this article went to press, I discovered that Figure 2 is a reinvention of a figure that appeared in slightly different form in Hersey's 1983 directions for scoring a leadership style test. That publication states that near-matches "tend to produce anxiety" to leader or follower, slight mismatches "tend to produce frustration" in both parties, and serious mismatches "tend to create havoc."

Author

Gerald Owen Grow is professor of magazine journalism at Florida A&M University. He graduated from Harvard in 1964 and received a Ph.D. in English from Yale in 1968 (in the peaceful days before Deconstruction), with a dissertation on Shakespeare's tragedies and Milton's Paradise Lost. He is the author of Florida Parks: A Guide to Camping in Nature, a nature-lover's guide to the Florida outdoors. Address correspondance to:

Gerald Grow
Division of Journalism--TH 428
Florida A&M University
Tallahassee, FL 32307



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