Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
by Evelyn Hunt Ogden
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1997
A long-term bestseller, this book is a pragmatic step-by-step guide to completing you dissertation or thesis during two semesters, in fifty workdays or less. It covers advisor and topic selection, proposal development, data collection and organization, available assistance, writing, and defense. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
The nature of the workplace and the workforce has changed rapidly in post-industrial society. Most workers are now facing the need for high levels of preparatory education, retraining for new jobs and the ability to continue learning at work in order to keep up with new developments.
The book,...
D.I.V.A. Diaries
The Road to the Ph.D. and Stories of Black Women Who Have Endured
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The Distinguished, Intellectual, Virtuous, Academic Sistas (D.I.V.A.S.) is a group of Black women who formed a bond with one another as doctoral students as a means of support on their journey through the academy. The acronym defines the women individually and as an entire group. This anthology can...
by Ann Gravells
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This is a handbook for anyone considering a career in teaching in the lifelong learning sector. It offers an essential introduction to what it is like to teach in the sector. It considers the diversity of contexts, settings and students, covering all you need to know. It reviews the role of the teacher...
Action Leadership
Towards a Participatory Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Action leadership is a creative, innovative, collaborative and self-developed way to lead. It eschews the hierarchical structure usually associated with leadership and is based instead on the democratic values of freedom, equality, inclusion and self-realization. It take responsibility for, not control...
by Karen Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Everyone learns best when they are enjoying an activity - even adults prefer to learn through play! This book gives a wide range of ideas and practical activities to use computer games as learning tools with students aged 11+.
You don't need to be a computer whiz to use this book. From the...
Mentoring Teachers in Post-Compulsory Education
A guide to effective practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The post-compulsory sector is complex and multifaceted, with highly diverse and sometimes challenging learner groups and subject to change from almost unending shifts in educational policy. Effective mentoring has a crucial role in the initial training of new teachers in the post-compulsory sector...
Flexibility and Lifelong Learning
Policy, Discourse, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
What can the politics of discourse tell us about the discourse of politics?
How are flexibility and lifelong learning positioned within policy?
Flexibility and lifelong learning have become key aspects of education policy in nation states and bodies such as the European Union and Organisation...
Understanding Language Use in the Classroom
Including Teaching Materials for College Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
It is clear that a proper understanding of what academic English is and how to use it is crucial for success in college, and yet students face multiple obstacles in acquiring this new 'code', not least that their professors often cannot agree among themselves on a definition and a set of rules. Understanding...
Understanding Language Use in the Classroom
Including Teaching Materials for College Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
It is clear that a proper understanding of what academic English is and how to use it is crucial for success in college, and yet students face multiple obstacles in acquiring this new 'code', not least that their professors often cannot agree among themselves on a definition and a set of rules. Understanding...
Supporting Change in Autism Services
Bridging the gap between theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Supporting Change in Autism Services explores the theoretical and practical dimensions of improving service provision for children, young people and adults with autism. The core aim of the book is to identify and critically examine some of the key factors that either facilitate or inhibit the implementation...
Send Your Child to College for Free
Successful Strategies that Earn Scholarships
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Sending your child to college is possible, it starts with a plan, a strategy and a willingness to work the plan!Whether you are a college graduate or not, there is much to learn and do when it comes to getting your child college and career ready in the 21st century. Send Your Child to College...
by Teddy Stanowski
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Students should know that life is too short to do a course that they don’t like doing. They have to make sure that they are doing the things that they love doing so that they can enjoy living their life. They should change their mind and decide that they will do what they have to do to reach their...