Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
Serving the New Majority Student
Working from Within to Transform the Institution
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Much of higher education was originally designed to meet the needs of full time 18-22 year-old students who enter directly from high school. However, the New Majority of our students are older, likely to swirl among institutions, and have significant adult responsibilities outside of the classroom....
Academic Transformation
A Design Approach for the New Majority
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Much of higher education was originally designed to meet the needs of full time 18-22 year-old students who enter directly from high school. However, the New Majority of our students are older, likely to swirl among institutions, and have significant adult responsibilities outside of the classroom....
by Whitney Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The Secret to Speak Fluent English As An Adult
This book is specially written for older students (25+) of the English language who wishes to improve his/her English fluency to the next level but seems to have hit a plateau. Regardless of what actions are taken, progression is slow or limited.
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by Graham Griffiths, Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The first book in the UK to specifically target adult numeracy teacher training, it is useful to both trainee teachers & trainers.
by June Tran
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject Pedagogy - Adult Education, grade: Pass, La Trobe University Melbourne, course: Doctor of Education, language: English, abstract: Graduate employability has become a highly topical and contested issue in Vietnam. Many employers report...
How to Learn French in Canada
A Handbook for English Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
It is well known that even after several years' exposure to high-school French, most English Canadians remain unable to speak the language. It is equally well known that many French Canadians are bilingual. One of the more obvious explanations for this relative deficiency on the part of the English...
Promoting, Assessing, Recognizing and Certifying Lifelong Learning
International Perspectives and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This book offers an international perspective on the growing interest worldwide in lifelong learning, particularly as it relates to learning beyond compulsory education and initial occupational preparation: across working life. Much of this interest is driven by key social and economic imperatives...
Every Person Is a Philosopher
Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Hal Adams was a legendary radical educator who organized writing workshops with people who had been written off during much of their lives, marginalized for reasons of race, gender, class, and caste. Hal detested the carelessness and neglect his students endured and set about building spaces of respect...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Teaching with Disney, the first comprehensive volume on Disney as cultural pedagogy and classroom praxis, explores what it means to teach, learn, and live in a world where many familiar discourses are dominated by The Walt Disney Company. The book analyzes the ways in which the powerful messages of...
Learning Futures
Education, Technology and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
In the twenty-first century, educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this future vision is robust, achievable or even desirable, whether...
International Student Engagement in Higher Education
Transforming Practices, Pedagogies and Participation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Hand-in-hand with the continuing drive to recruit international students to Western universities goes an interest in student engagement. However, it is often unclear exactly what is meant by engagement. This book goes beyond the policy rhetoric to provide a practice-based explication of international...
Theories of Learning for the Workplace
Building blocks for training and professional development programs
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Workplace and professional learning, lifelong learning, adult learning, learning in different contexts have become of more and more interest and now dominate all aspects of 21st century life. Learning is no longer about ‘storing and recall’ but ‘development and flow’.
Theories of Learning...
by Brenda Morgan-Klein, Michael Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
This textbook gives a wide-ranging, research-informed introduction to issues in lifelong learning across a variety of educational settings and practices. Its very accessible approach is multi-disciplinary drawing on sociology and psychology in particular. In addition, issues are discussed within an...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Originally published in 1991 this book is a comparative study of systems of preparing adult educators in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Cyprus. The book argues for more formal preparation and...