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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Recently, there has been an increased understanding that learning occurs outside of the traditional classroom setting, particularly for adult lifelong learners. This perspective has enhanced an attentive design in the underlying technological architecture that is required for the integration of formal...
Understanding Adult Functional Literacy
Connecting Text Features, Task Demands, and Respondent Skills
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
"This is a genuinely scholarly work ... It is based on [analysis of] the most up-to-date quantitative surveys that we have on adult literacy. These surveys are the gold standard in terms of documenting adult literacy in the United States ...The author analyzes these extensive surveys and puts...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
This volume is the continuation of a two-part series that focuses on salient topics and issues affecting Black males as they engage in adult education and learning. Considering the historical and current effects on the way these men participate in adult education, this volume broadens the conversations...
The Adult Learner
The definitive classic in adult education and human resource development
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children?
How does their life experience inform their learning processes?
These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’s pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education...
Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Now in its fourth edition, Adult Education and Lifelong Learning is well established, and is regarded as the most widely used text about adult education. Fully revised and updated with substantial additional material, this new edition takes account of many changes which have occurred in the field...
by Christina Newberry
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
*Note -- this e-Reader edition does not include the 8-page customizable contract or budget calculator, sold bundled with the book elsewhere*If you're faced with the frustration of dealing with adult children moving home - or kids who never left - even though they are in their late 20s,...
Cutting Loose
An Adult's Guide to Coming to Terms with Your Parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1990
With more than thirty-five years of experience in psychotherapy, Dr. Halpern enables the adult child to understand his or her parent and foster a positive, healthy adult relationship.
In all respects, you appear to be well-adjusted, reasonably successful adult, but in the presence of your parents,...
Escaping the Endless Adolescence
How We Can Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Do you sometimes wonder how your teen is ever going to survive on his or her own as an adult? Does your high school junior seem oblivious to the challenges that lie ahead? Does your academically successful nineteen-year-old still expect you to “just take care of” even the most basic life tasks?
Welcome...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2005
Although there has been a great deal of rhetoric about learner empowerment in educational and community development circles, this book is the first to offer detailed examples of successful participatory practices in adult education spanning a wide range of program settings, such as schools, institutions,...
Adult Education and Community Action
Adult Education and Popular Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Originally published in 1982, this book discusses the role of adult education in social and community action. In particular it presents a critical assessment of 'community education' and the theories of Illich, Freire and Gramsci and it proves that there is a radical adult education tradition in the...
by Neil Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This book addresses the questions why citizenship education is an important subject for students in further and adult education and why we need democratic colleges to support the study of citizenship education. It investigates the historical roots of further and adult education and identifies how...
by Ralf St Clair
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Why does reading and writing matter in modern societies? How do we know adult literacy education does any good? Why Literacy Matters pulls together a wide range of evidence to build a powerful and convincing argument about why literacy matters to all of us. St Clair explains that we can look at literacy...
Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning
A Guide to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The third edition of Patricia Cranton’s Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning brings a wealth of new insight from the tremendous growth in the field during the decade since the previous edition. As in the previous editions, the book helps adult educators understand what transformative...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2006
Throughout Europe, where refugee, migrant and minority ethnic communities are an increasingly integral part of the social, political, economic and cultural identity of most large cities, the need to develop relevant, accessible provision for adult learners from these communities has never been greater....