Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The discipline of adult education has been vastly discussed and optimized over the years. Despite this, certain niches in this area, such as correctional education, remain under-researched and under-developed. Strategic Learning Ideologies in Prison Education Programs is a pivotal reference source that...
Mindfulness and Learning
Celebrating the Affective Dimension of Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2011
In recent decades, education at all levels has been seriously impoverished by a growing obsession with standards, targets, skills and competences. According to this model, only a circumscribed range of basic cognitive skills and competences are the business of education, whose main role is to provide...
by Jonathan Tummons
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Curriculum is a key issue for trainee teachers in the lifelong learning sector and a core component of most courses. It lies at the heart of the work of teachers and trainers, it shapes the programmes and courses that are taught, and dictates which students can have access to courses. What goes in...
by Ann Gravells
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The Award in Education and Training is the threshold qualification for anyone wanting to teach in a wide range of contexts including the further education and skills sector, workplace learning, offender learning and adult and community settings. This user-friendly text is your guide to all the units...
Supporting Self-Directed Learning in Science and Technology Beyond the School Years
Beyond the School Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
While much has been written about science education from pre-K through to postgraduate study, interaction with science and technology does not stop when schooling ends. Moving beyond scholarship on conventional education, this book extends the research and provides an original in-depth look at adult...
Seeking Wisdom in Adult Teaching and Learning
An Autoethnographic Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book concerns the pursuit of wisdom in education, and the argument that wisdom – personified here as Sophia – is tragically marginalised or absent in current Western epistemological discourses. It includes a review of key historical and classical framings which have lost much potency and...
Vocational Education beyond Skill Formation
VET between Civic, Industrial and Market Tensions
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Vocational education and training has played an important role in the struggles between Work and Capital along history and today; there are examples of such tensions worldwide. The first section of this book provides illustrations of different countries from the 18th to the early 20th century. The...
Contemporary Research in Adult and Lifelong Learning of Mathematics
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
This book is a selection of 15 papers developed by participants in ICME 13 held in Hamburg , presenting insights from the latest research on the andragogy of adult and lifelong learning of mathematics. It also investigates open questions, such as numeracy and mathematics skills, social and psychological...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
The purpose of this book is to assist post-traditional students to achieve success in the Occupational, Workforce, and Leadership Studies (OWLS) Department and develop their individualized pathway to earn the interdisciplinary Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences (BAAS) degree at Texas State University....
by Slavko Rogan
Language: German
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Erwachsenenbildung, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Studienstruktur mit ihren Unterrichtsformen des Kontaktstudiums und Selbststudiums wird an vielen Universitäten und Hochschulen in die Curricula...
Is Graduate School Really for You?
The Whos, Whats, Hows, and Whys of Pursuing a Master's or Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Landing a job in today's academic job market is no easy feat. Is graduate school the answer? This informed and candid book provides anyone thinking about pursuing an advanced degree—and those who support them—with the inside scoop on what to expect in graduate school.
Amanda I. Seligman...
Lifelong Learning in the UK
An introductory guide for Education Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Written specifically for Education Studies students, this accessible text offers a clear introduction to lifelong learning and the impact it has on all areas of society. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, it explores what lifelong learning is, where learning can and does take place and who...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
What stories can we tell of ourselves and others and why should they be of interest to others?
Exploring Learning, Identity and Power through Life History and Narrative Research responds to these questions with examples from diverse educational and social contexts. The book brings together...
Principles and Practices of Teaching and Training
A guide for teachers and trainers in the FE and skills sector
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Written by bestselling author Ann Gravells, this is the complete go-to guide for anyone wanting to be (or working as) a teacher or trainer in the further education and skills sector, in the UK and beyond. It has all the information you need to work towards a qualification such as the Award, Certificate...