Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
Globalization, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
Sociological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
This book critically assesses the learning that is required and provided within a learning society and gives a detailed sociological analysis of the emerging role of lifelong learning with examples from around the globe. Divided into three clear parts the book:
looks at the development of the...
Learning through Digital Game Design and Building in a Participatory Culture
An Enactivist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book discusses topics concerning digital game-based learning focusing on learning-by-game-building and Web 2.0. Grounded in the new theoretical perspective of enactivism, this book shows how such an approach can help students gain deep understanding of subjects such as mathematics and history,...
Educational Activity Programs for Older Adults
A 12-Month Idea Guide for Adult Education Instructors and Activity Directors in Gerontology
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
If you have ever found yourself frustrated by the lack of printed materials for ideas to be used in conducting classes or activities with older adults, look no more! Educational Activity Programs for Older Adults is an innovative guide for planning programs that meet the social, recreational, rehabilitative,...
Achieving Quality Education for All
Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Due to the development of the international Education for All and Education for Sustainable Development movements, for which UNESCO is the lead agency, there has been an increasing emphasis on the power of education and schooling to help build more just and equitable societies. Thus giving everyone...
Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
The Reflective Professional
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
'This book provides teachers in higher education with what they need - a compelling framework for improving student learning. It combines a comprehensive synthesis of the latest research on learning and teaching with practical strategies for implementing it in their classrooms' - Professor Ken Bain,...
Mentoring and Coaching in Schools
Professional Learning through Collaborative Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Can mentoring and coaching really improve professional practice? How can research and inquiry improve mentoring and coaching practice?
Mentoring and Coaching in Schools explores the ways in which mentoring and coaching can be used as a dynamic collaborative process for effective professional...
Skills for Employability Part Two
Moving Into Employment
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This is the fourth of the new Lifelong Learning:Personal Effectiveness Guides by Rosalie Marsh. which draw from her extensive skills & industrial experience in sales management and work-based learning in adult and further education. In two parts, Skills for Employability focuses on some of the...
Improving Learning through the Lifecourse
Learning Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Adult learning matters. There is now widespread agreement that modern countries depend on the creativity, skills and knowledge of the entire population for their prosperity. Many people talk of our future well-being in terms of a ‘knowledge economy’ or a ‘learning society’ in which every person’s...
Applicability of contemporary western Human Resource Development concepts in the People's Republic of China
A cross-cultural investigation of employees' attitudes at a multinational corporation
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Pedagogy - Adult Education, grade: A3, University of Edinburgh, language: English, abstract: The research literature and reports from human resource development practitioners often paint a picture of a Chinese culture of learning that is strongly guided...
by Rabbi Jill Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Insights, Ideas, and Thoughtful Questions for Discussing
Jewish Approaches to Social Justice with Students
A step-by-step guide to creative use of There Shall Be No Needy: Pursing Social Justice through Jewish Law & Tradition in adult education, college, and advanced high school classes....
by Ivor Goodson, Scherto Gill
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Ivor Goodson and Scherto Gill analyse and discuss a series of trans-disciplinary case studies from diverse cultures and argue that narrative is not only a rich and profound way for humans to make sense of their lives, but also in itself a process of pedagogical encounter, learning and transformation....
Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work
Survey and Case Study Findings
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Lifelong Learning is essential to all individuals and in recent years has become a guiding principle for policy initiatives, ranging from national economic competition to issues of social cohesion and personal fulfilment. However, despite the importance of lifelong learning there is a critical absence...
Access to Education in Europe
A Framework and Agenda for System Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
This book identifies key elements of an international framework to develop systems-level change to promote access to education, including higher education, for socio-economically marginalized groups. It is based on interviews with senior government officials and senior management in universities,...
Creating Courses for Adults
Design for Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Become an effective adult educator by approaching teaching systematically
As the author describes at the beginning of Creating Courses for Adults, "The big idea of this book is that education for adults has to be designed." Whether in basic skills training, English language classes, professional...