Can Teacher Charisma really Spark Adult Intention in Continuing Learning?

Lifelong learning has been emphasized as the important policy of what called a “learning society” in Taiwan since the early 1990s.Efforts havebeen made by successive government administrations to increase participationin all forms of post-school education, especially encourage learning in the local community college. This study selected four excellent-rated community colleges’ adult students as the subjects to investigate the influence of teacher charisma on adult continuing learning intention. A total of 800 questionnaires were distributed, and 756 usable samples were collected. The scales development was made by literatures review and experts consensus measurement mode to ensure their reliability, factor analysis method was used to examine each given structural factors, andAMOS 20.0 was applied to analyze the reliability and validity.The research results present that the teacher charisma, both intrinsic charisma: teaching methods, character, knowledge, and extrinsic charisma: nonverbal facial-gestural expressiveness, has a significant positive influence on adult continuing learning intention. But personal dressing, one of teacher extrinsic charisma, doesn’t have an obvious influence on it.