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The article “Discussion” is taken from the research paper “Knowledge construction: The role of the teacher’s interpersonal attitudes” by D.Mate, A.Brizio and M.Tirassa. The authors summarize their research. They note that they designed three stages in elaboration of the data collection and used factor analysis to group the educator’s behaviors into the four main interpersonal attitudes: favoring cooperation, directivity, flexibility and focusing on the group. They found evidence that expert and novice educators enact these four interpersonal attitudes differently. The researchers define that correlation analysis showed covariance of the educators’ interpersonal attitudes and he learners’ level of attention, participation and understanding. The researchers reveal the most important skills of the educator are “use of silence”, “to reformulate a question to better frame it”, “to construct an appropriate answer together with audience.” They conclude that learning process can be influenced by the educator and it is possible to develop empirical research in the nightly complex area of adult education and adult learning and an appropriate test to evaluate actual learning should be developed and used.

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The article “Discussion” is taken from the research paper “Knowledge construction: The role of the teacher’s interpersonal attitudes” by D.Mate, A.Brizio and M.Tirassa. The authors summarize their research. They give conclusion on the research design and four main interpersonal attitudes. They resume that learning process can be influenced by the educator and it is possible to develop empirical research in the nightly complex area of adult education and adult learning and an appropriate test to evaluate actual learning should be developed and used.

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The paper “Knowledge construction: the role of the teacher’s interpersonal attitudes” is taken from Reseach Papers from Education 26,2 pp 245-265/ by D.Mate, A.Brizio and M.Tirassa. The authors defined aim of this paper, steps of the research design gave results and conclusions of this paper. This research aimed at studying how the interpersonal attitudes of teachers may influence learning in adults classrooms. In terms of scientific methods they used factor analysis and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The paper revealed the four main teacher’s interpersonal attitudes: favoring cooperation, directivity, flexibility and focusing on the group. The research showed covaration of the educators interpersonal attitudes and the learners’ level of attention, participation and understanding. The researchers revealed the most important skills of the educator are “use of silence”, “to reformulate a question to better frame it”, “to construct an appropriate answer together with audience” They conclude that learning process can be influenced by the educator and it is possible to develop empirical research in the nightly complex area of adult education and adult learning and an appropriate test to evaluate actual learning should be developed and used.