Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
Post-Education Society
Recognising Adults as Learners
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Originally published in 1985, this book argues that to make sense any attempt to improve the situation must take account of what we now know about adult growth and development, accepting as an operational imperative that it is as problematic and turbulent as childhood. The book claims that since adults...
Toward Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education
Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This volume revisits, problematizes, and expands the meaning of quality in the context of adult basic education. Covering a wide range of relevant topics, it includes contributors from the realms of both policy and practice and encompasses both the major instructional areas-reading, writing, and mathematics-as...
by Neil Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This book addresses the questions why citizenship education is an important subject for students in further and adult education and why we need democratic colleges to support the study of citizenship education. It investigates the historical roots of further and adult education and identifies how...
Peace Education and the Adult Learner
Educational Trends in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Peace Education and the Adult Learner presents a survey of recent developments in adult and peace education. This book offers new educational models for teaching adult learners interested in peace education and conflict resolution. The authors masterfully situate the foundations of these models within...
by Professor Andrew Pollard, Dr Amy Pollard
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
***Readings for Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education***is a unique portable library of exceptional readings drawing together seminal extracts and contemporary literature from international sources from books and journals to support both initial study and extended career-long...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
While adult and vocational education may be viewed as separate, the training and development in education and the workplace is essential to keeping up with the current page of technologies and information. As technologies, individuals, and the workplace continue to advance, adult learning continues to...
by S. Sava, P. Novotny
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The book represents several contributions that guide the
readers in the comprehension of the paradigmatic shift from
adult/lifelong education, to adult/lifelong learning. At the
same time it presents the contexts where adults learn: the
organized contexts, such as the institutions and services, and
the...
Adult Education in Neoliberal Times
Policies, Philosophies and Professionalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This book explores the realities of adult education practice in the current political and economic climate. With a particular focus on examining the effect of the multitude of changes in policy and philosophy over the past 30 years, the book explores how the values and career expectations of adult...
Political Economy of Adult Learning Systems
Comparative Study of Strategies, Policies and Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Based on comparative adult education statistics offered by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) and country case studies, this book analyses the policies and structures that foster adult learning. It examines a variety of forms of adult learning,...
Adult Biliteracy
Sociocultural and Programmatic Responses
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Offering an in-depth view of adult literacy/biliteracy by merging two fields—adult literacy and English as a Second Language—this volume brings to the forefront linguistic, demographic, sociocultural, workforce, familial, academic, and other issues surrounding the development of bilingualism and...
Teaching, Learning and Education in Late Modernity
The Selected Works of Peter Jarvis
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Professor Peter Jarvis has spent over 30 years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in education. He has contributed well over 30 books and 200 papers and chapters in books on learning theory, adult education and learning, continuing professional education, nurse...
A Feast of Learning
International Perspectives on Adult Learning and Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book provides perspectives from authors in six countries (Canada, Colombia, Germany, France, UK, USA) pertaining to adult learning in the 21st Century. This book grew out of an exciting International Conference on Adult Learning (ICAL) held in Paris, May 2729, 2012. Imagine “listening in” as...
Combatting Poverty Through Adult Education
National Development Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Originally published in 1985 this book addresses important questions about the nature and meaning of development as these concern adult education in the developing world. It contributes to the development debate as well as discussiong what part adult education can play in reducing poverty and inequality....
by Steven W. Schmidt, Kathleen P. King
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Case studies have become a widelyused instructional tool in many educational environments. The use of case studies began in the 1950s at Harvard Business School. Today, they may be used as part of a course of study, or as the main focus of a course, to which other material is added. While the use of...