Adult category: 11594 books
by Alan Tuckett
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
This book is a tribute to a leading researcher in participation studies, as well as a look back to the lessons to be drawn from past struggles to secure greater equity for marginalised groups, and forward to the social, political and educational policy challenges facing providers, administrators,...
Toward Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education
Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This volume revisits, problematizes, and expands the meaning of quality in the context of adult basic education. Covering a wide range of relevant topics, it includes contributors from the realms of both policy and practice and encompasses both the major instructional areas-reading, writing, and mathematics-as...
Adult Biliteracy
Sociocultural and Programmatic Responses
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Offering an in-depth view of adult literacy/biliteracy by merging two fields—adult literacy and English as a Second Language—this volume brings to the forefront linguistic, demographic, sociocultural, workforce, familial, academic, and other issues surrounding the development of bilingualism and...
Peace Education and the Adult Learner
Educational Trends in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Peace Education and the Adult Learner presents a survey of recent developments in adult and peace education. This book offers new educational models for teaching adult learners interested in peace education and conflict resolution. The authors masterfully situate the foundations of these models within...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This Handbook provides a wide-ranging frame of reference for researching adult and lifelong education and learning. With contributions from scores of established and newer scholars from six continents, the volume covers a diverse range of geopolitical and social territories across the world.
Drawing...
The Handbook of Race and Adult Education
A Resource for Dialogue on Racism
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
The Handbook of Race and Adult Education
While much attention has been given to inclusion, diversity, and multiculturalism within adult education, The Handbook of Race and Adult Education is the first comprehensive work to engage in a dialogue specifically about race and racism and the effect...
by James P. Pappas, Jerry Jerman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The field of coaching adult populations has grown dramatically over the past two decades. This volume brings together coaching scholars and experts to review this trend, examine some of the theoretical foundations of the field, and explore how coaching adults manifests itself in the workplace, at...
by Barbara Jauriqui MS LMFT MAC
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
In her galvanizing new book, A.C.E.S. - Adult-Child Entitlement Syndrome, Barbara Jaurequi provides a thorough and enlightening description of A.C.E.S., a widespread family dilemma in the United States today. Ms. Jaurequi developed her theory of A.C.E.S. through her successful work with hundreds of...
by S. Sava, P. Novotny
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The book represents several contributions that guide the
readers in the comprehension of the paradigmatic shift from
adult/lifelong education, to adult/lifelong learning. At the
same time it presents the contexts where adults learn: the
organized contexts, such as the institutions and services, and
the...
Adult Education in Neoliberal Times
Policies, Philosophies and Professionalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This book explores the realities of adult education practice in the current political and economic climate. With a particular focus on examining the effect of the multitude of changes in policy and philosophy over the past 30 years, the book explores how the values and career expectations of adult...
Ecojustice Adult Education: Theory and Practice in the Cultivation of the Cultural Commons
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 153
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
As ecological issues increase and concern worldwide is mounting about the changing nature of work and cultural life, the field of adult education must respond. Adult education holds much potential for its ability to highlight cultural knowledge, promote change, and maximize the capacity of adults...
Participatory Visual Approaches to Adult and Continuing Education: Practical Insights
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 154
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Gain useful practical knowledge of participatory visual methods in adult and continuing education. Bringing together relevant theories and imaginative practices from formal and non-formal adult education contexts, this volume discusses:
photo-story,
digital storytelling,
photovoice,
filmmaking,...
Being an Adult Learner in Austere Times
Exploring the Contexts of Higher, Further and Community Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
This book examines the experiences of adult learners in times of austerity. The power of adult education to transform lives is well known, and it is especially powerful for those who missed out on educational opportunities earlier in life. Those who have been successful learners in the past are more...
CoInstruction and Adult Learners
An Action Research Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2014 in the subject Pedagogy - Adult Education, grade: A, , course: MED, Instructional Design Capstone Written Project, language: English, abstract: This is an action-research study on the affectivity level of a co-instructional approach in relation to adult learners. Co-instruction...