Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
The Storm
American Chapters
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
American Chapters presents short stories in vivid and easy-to-read, 500-word chapters, perfect for English language learners internationally and adult literacy learners in countries where English is commonly used. All stories are also offered as audio books for learners who want to hear the sounds...
Education for Liberation
The Politics of Promise and Reform Inside and Beyond America’s Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Almost 650,000 men and women, approximately the size of the city of Memphis, TN, return home from prison every year. Oftentimes with some pocket change and a bus ticket, they reenter society and struggle to find work, housing, a supportive social network. Economic barriers, the stigma of a felony...
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds
The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes...
by Carole Marsh Longmeyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Feeling lost, in pain, falling behind, or just plain clueless? This book’s for you! “First Aid for Ignorance” is a real shot in the arm for the meandering high schooler or college student who needs a dose of reality to pull it all together. No more wimpy handshakes, lame presentations or sketchy...
"Becoming" a Professional
an Interdisciplinary Analysis of Professional Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
This book is founded on the idea that ‘becoming’ is the most useful defining concept for a new ‘professional’ class whose members understand that development in their working lives is an open-ended, lifelong process of refinement and learning.
In a world where being a ‘professional’...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In the twenty-first century, learning—and the definition of education—is changing. New digital, online, and social tools have the ability to transform the classroom and engage learners like never before. In the midst of this technological revolution, it is crucial for educators and administrators...
Re-visioning Community Colleges
Positioning for Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Re-visioning Community Collegestraces the development and generational evolution of community colleges, explores the past success and future capacity of community colleges as disruptive innovators, and analyzes this sector’s unique advantages and vulnerabilities. Ultimately, Sydow and Aflred presents...
Effective or Wise?
Teaching and the Meaning of Professional Dispositions in Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In our work as educators, we all aspire to be effective. We also aspire to be wise. If teachers are to represent and advocate for education, we must become the stewards of a discourse that nurtures education’s possibilities. This book explores how teacher dispositions are defined, developed, cultivated,...
Advancing Your Career
Getting and Making the Most of Your Doctorate
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Entering a doctoral program can be an important first step in advancing your career. You will create a network of support that will include professors, intern advisors, and others who will have a vested interest in your success. From this support group will emerge one or more mentors who will guide...
Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education
The Journey Stories of Undocumented and Unafraid Community Activists
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The topic of immigration has become increasingly volatile in U.S. society, and undocumented college students play a central role in mobilizing and politicizing a critical mass of activists to push forth a pro-immigration agenda, in particular the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors...
Learning in Landscapes of Practice
Boundaries, identity, and knowledgeability in practice-based learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
If the body of knowledge of a profession is a living landscape of practice, then our personal experience of learning can be thought of as a journey through this landscape. Within Learning in Landscapes of Practice, this metaphor is further developed in order to start an important conversation about...
Teaching Business Sustainability Vol. 2
Cases, Simulations and Experiential Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
If there is one area of business education that requires out-of-the-box, creative thinking it is sustainability. Business sustainability, because of its relative newness (and hence uncertainty), its dependence on interdisciplinary thinking, its need to work with different stakeholders and its non-traditional...
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds
The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes...
Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality
A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Joel Spring’s history of school polices imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization—the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and replace them with those of the dominant group. The focus is on the education of dominated groups...