Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
Active Ageing, Active Learning
Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This book is concerned with the general issues of ageing, learning and education for the elderly and then with the more specific issues of why, how and what elders want to learn. This monograph consists of 10 chapters written by various internationally renowned researchers and scholar-practitioners in the field.
Supporting Lifelong Learning
Volume I: Perspectives on Learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2001
This Open University Reader examines the practices of learning and teaching which have been developed to support lifelong learning, and the understanding and assumptions which underpin them. The selection of texts trace the widening scope of academic understanding of learning and teaching, and considers...
by Irwin Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
It is unfortunate but true that many misconceptions exist regarding teaching English to non-English speakers. Just as one who can read is not by that criterion alone capable of teaching reading, knowing a particular language does not ensure that one can effectively teach it. It is an error to assume...
Discourses on Professional Learning
On the Boundary Between Learning and Working
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This book analyses and elaborates on learning processes within work environments and explores professional learning. It presents research indicating general characteristics of the work environment that support learning, as well as barriers to workplace learning. Themes of professional development,...
Contemporary Perspectives in E-Learning Research
Themes, Methods and Impact on Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
E-learning is at an exciting point in its development; its potential in terms of research is great and its impact on institutional practices is fully recognised. This book defines e-learning as a field of research, highlighting the complex issues, activities and tensions that characterise the area.
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by Ms Sheine Peart, Liz Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
More and more, teachers in the lifelong learning sector are required to teach the 14-19 age group. This book is a practical guide to delivering learning to 14-19s. It begins by looking at the background to teaching 14-19 in FE and covers current pathways for achievement. Coverage of effective delivery...
Activity Theory in Practice
Promoting Learning Across Boundaries and Agencies
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This ground-breaking book brings together cutting-edge researchers who study the transformation of practice through the enhancement and transformation of expertise. This is an important moment for such a contribution because expertise is in transition - moving toward collaboration in inter-organizational...
Rethinking Black Motherhood and Drug Addictions
Counternarratives of Black Family Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Rethinking Black Motherhood and Drug Addictions: Counternarratives of Black Family Resilience offers a unique perspective on the complexities of being a Black mother addicted to crack, powder cocaine, heroin, and crank. Qualitative interviews provide rich narratives from five Black mothers challenging...
Learning Journals
A Handbook for Reflective Practice and Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Fully updated with important new theory and practical material, this second edition of Learning Journals offers guidance on keeping and using journals and gives step-by-step advice on integrating journal writing on taught courses, in training and professional development and in supporting personal...
RIP Jim Crow
Fighting Racism through Higher Education Policy, Curriculum, and Cultural Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Together we can build enough momentum to see Jim Crow lying silent and still in his grave.
This book shouts out ways that we can and must respond to the sickening accumulation of racially inspired and systemically sanctioned deaths. Today, we remember the passing of young, Black Michael Brown in Ferguson,...
by Jane Wood, John Bostock, Mr John Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
This book provides clear guidance on how to approach initial teaching experience, how to plan effective sessions, how to work well with your mentor and how to make the most out of your new career. Through focusing on the real-life experiences of both in-service and pre-service trainee teachers, it...
Becoming oneself
Dimensions of 'Bildung' and the facilitation of personality development
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
The basic concern of the volume is to determine the preconditions of personality development and to show their significance and their perspectives for educational science and for pedagogical practice. First, these basic preconditions of becoming oneself are collected in a single volume and discussed...
Foucault and Lifelong Learning
Governing the Subject
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2008
Over the last twenty years there has been increasing interest in the work of Michel Foucault in the social sciences and in particular with relation to education. This, the first book to draw on his work to consider lifelong learning, explores the significance of policies and practices of lifelong...
Using Concept Mapping to Foster Adaptive Expertise
Enhancing Teacher Metacognitive Learning to Improve Student Academic Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Concept mapping is a powerful means to promote metacognitive learning in students and teachers alike. When teachers integrate concept mapping into their instructional planning, they clarify the big ideas, expose new conceptual relationships, and refine learning goals for their students. Salmon and...