Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
Reconstructing the Lifelong Learner
Pedagogy and Identity in Individual, Organisational and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
How is adult learning used to produce personal, organisational and social change?
This interesting examination of adult learning for change illustrates through diverse case studies and theoretical perspectives that personal change is inextricably linked to broader organisational and social change....
Blended Learning Environments for Adults
Evaluations and Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
There is a general notion that adult education literature generally supports the idea that teaching adults should be approached in a different way than teaching children. Adult learners include working adults with family responsibilities, older workers who may not feel confident about returning to...
Teaching Adults
A Practical Guide for New Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
A highly practical guide for new instructors teaching in any setting
Regardless of the context, teaching is a tall task—and for those teaching adults, unique challenges await. Teaching Adults: A Practical Guide for New Teachers is chock-full of ideas that can be read quickly and implemented...
Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy
Latino Migrants Crossing the Linguistic Border, Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
How do "illegal aliens" chart the speech sounds of colloquial English? This book is timeless in offering an unusually direct entry into how a group of Mexican fruit pickers analyze their first encounter with local American speech in a tiny rural Midwestern community in the United States....
by Vicky Duckworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners offers deep insights into the lives of marginalised communities and the link between learning, literacy and violence, not previously carried out in-depth in a small scale study. It breaks the negative stereo-types...
by Dorothy MacKeracher
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Learning is an inseparable part of human experience. Understanding how adults learn and applying that expertise to practical everyday situations and relationships opens the window on a broader understanding of the capacity of the human mind.
Dorothy MacKeracher's Making Sense of Adult Learning...
by Dolores A. Mize Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
The grown-up's guide to higher education. Adults make up 41% of students on campus today, but the truth is many enter college feeling lost, uncomfortable, and "too old" in the traditional class structure. This book provides information that is unique to the adult learning experience, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Mentoring in Formal and Informal Contexts is a collection of invited works on mentoring in the many contexts in which it exists. Working with AHEA, the editors identified authors that have demonstrated experience and/or have published in this area. The book is arranged thematically (health care, education,...
THE ADULT STUDENT
An Insider's Guide to Going Back to School
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
An insider's look at the world of online education from a professor’s viewpoint, written for the benefit of the student. A manual to provide insight on everything from choosing the right school to what professors really think about your work (which you may or may not want to know!) The author also...
by Victoria J. Marsick, Karen Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Today, rapid change is a constant challenge in the workplace, and thousands of individuals need to be involved in continuous learning. Traditional training approaches, however, do not emphasise informal and incidental learning. Furthermore, since informal learning us seldom designed, learning outside...
Bringing Knowledge Back In
From Social Constructivism to Social Realism in the Sociology of Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
'This book tackles some of the most important educational questions of the day... It is rare to find a book on education which is theoretically sophisticated and practically relevant: this book is.' From the Foreword by Hugh Lauder
What is it in the twenty-first century that we want young...
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education
Rethinking the temporal complexity of self and society
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education argues that by rethinking the way we relate to time, we can fundamentally rethink the way we conceive education. Beyond the contemporary rhetoric of acceleration, speed, urgency or slowness, this book provides an epistemological, historical and theoretical...
by Alison Wolf, Karen Evans
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Modern societies demand high levels of literacy. The written word is pervasive; individuals with poor literacy skills are deeply disadvantaged; and governments are increasingly pre-occupied with the contribution that skills can make to economic growth. As a result, the basic skills of adult workers...
Pathways to Transformation
Learning in Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Pathways to Transformation: Learning in Relationship is an edited collection that synthesizes current research on transformative learning and expands the current knowledgebase. This book is timely and significant as it provides a synthesis of some of the most exciting research in two fields: adult...