Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
Community Colleges Worldwide
Investigating the Global Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
This volume of the "International Perspectives on Education and Society" series comparatively examines various two-year and community college institutions worldwide. While these institutions are called by different names and may not all be structured the same around the world, their core...
The Capability Approach and Early Childhood Education Curricula
An Investigation into Teachers Beliefs and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book explores the Capability Approach (CA) as an alternative critical lens through which to regard early childhood education (ECE) curricula. The CA framework is a counter narrative to the narrow instrumentalism that reduces education to a mere process of academic skills acquisition for a future...
E-Learning in the Workplace
A Performance-Oriented Approach Beyond Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book analyzes the nature and requirements of workplace e-learning based on relevant theories such as adult learning, community of practice, organizational learning, and the systems thinking. By integrating considerations on organization, pedagogy and technology, a performance-oriented e-learning...
EFL Communication Strategies in Second Life
An exploratory study
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
This book is based on a research project carried out at Edinburgh University and reports the findings of an exploratory case study examining communication strategy use between three adult EFL learners from diverse cultural backgrounds and their teacher whilst incorporating voice and text chat during...
Unlocking Minds in Lockup
Prison Education Opens Doors
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Mass incarceration as led to over 2 million adults inside prisons at taxpayer cost of about $80 billion per year, and fracturing families. The 2.7 million children with a parent inside, and the 7 million with a parent under court supervision, will be less likely to fall into their parents' criminal patterns...
Education for Sustainable Development in Further Education
Embedding Sustainability into Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
This book will enable teachers and managers in the post-compulsory sector to consider a range of approaches to embed Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in their practice in the post-compulsory sector. There will be the opportunity to consider key debates, useful links and suggested reading...
Making Learning Happen
A Guide for Post-Compulsory Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
'Refreshing, original and full of pragmatic, evidence-based advice... In my opinion this is the best book on learning and teaching available to teachers in H.E. and F.E. today. The environment has changed so quickly over recent years and Phil Race has not only kept abreast of the changes; he is way...
Teacher Development and Teacher Education in Developing Countries
On Becoming and Being a Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
This book contributes to understanding of how individual teachers in developing countries grow and evolve throughout their careers. Based on the analysis of 150 autobiographies of teachers from a range of regions in the developing world including Central Asia, South Asia, East Africa and the Middle...
Academic Biliteracies
Multilingual Repertoires in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Research on academic literacy within higher education has focused almost exclusively on the development of academic literacy in English. This book is unique in showing how students use other languages when they engage with written academic content – whether in reading, discussing or writing –...
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Disciplinary Approaches to Educational Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This book explores best practice approaches to undertaking enquiry into learning and teaching in higher education for staff from all academic disciplines. A general introduction to the methods most commonly used in undertaking enquiry in the field of education is complemented by chapters exploring...
by Ettore Gelpi
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Originally published in 1985, this book argues that lifelong education has a vital part to play in fostering international political understanding. It also demonstrates how educational planners can use the concept of lifelong education to deal with some of the contradictions inherent in much of the...
Academic Practice
Developing as a Professional in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This book gives a broad overview of the issues faced by early career academics and explores a variety of topics from curriculum planning to employability. Fully updated throughout, key features of this second edition include:
Two new chapters on HE assessment and becoming a supervisor
New case...
Kompetenzen von Erwachsenen. Zu wenig Resonanz auf PIAAC?
Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at 23/2014
Language: German
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Mit dem Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies der OECD (PIAAC) liegt eine neue international vergleichende Datenbasis zu den Schlüsselkompetenzen von Erwachsenen vor. Es sind dies: Lesen, Alltagsmathematik und Problemlösen im Kontext neuer Technologien. Nachdem im Oktober...
by Lydia Spenceley
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
For all those teaching or training to teach within the Further Education (FE) sector, this book provides a critical understanding of the complex concept of inclusion and its implementation in a range of different contextual settings. It encourages the reader to revisit their own beliefs and assumptions...