Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
Being an Adult Learner in Austere Times
Exploring the Contexts of Higher, Further and Community Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
This book examines the experiences of adult learners in times of austerity. The power of adult education to transform lives is well known, and it is especially powerful for those who missed out on educational opportunities earlier in life. Those who have been successful learners in the past are more...
Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn
A Comprehensive Guide for Teaching All Adults
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
The classic interdisciplinary reference on adult education, updated for today's learning environment
Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn provides adult educators with the information and strategies they need to guide non-traditional students toward positive educational outcomes. Providing a...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
As traditional classroom settings are transitioning to online environments, teachers now face the challenge of using this medium to promote effective learning strategies, especially when teaching older age groups. Because adult learners bring a different set of understandings and skills to education...
Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Now in its fourth edition, Adult Education and Lifelong Learning is well established, and is regarded as the most widely used text about adult education. Fully revised and updated with substantial additional material, this new edition takes account of many changes which have occurred in the field...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2005
Although there has been a great deal of rhetoric about learner empowerment in educational and community development circles, this book is the first to offer detailed examples of successful participatory practices in adult education spanning a wide range of program settings, such as schools, institutions,...
Adult Education and Community Action
Adult Education and Popular Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Originally published in 1982, this book discusses the role of adult education in social and community action. In particular it presents a critical assessment of 'community education' and the theories of Illich, Freire and Gramsci and it proves that there is a radical adult education tradition in the...
Continuing Professional Education in Australia
A Tale of Missed Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book offers a history of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the Australian context. It presents an approach that links the development of CPD to a series of 'missed opportunities' and the identification of three key themes (mandatory CPD, competencies and regulation/registration) as...
International Perspectives on Older Adult Education
Research, Policies and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This important book builds on recent publications in lifelong learning which focus on learning and education in later life. This work breaks new ground in international understandings of what constitutes later life learning across diverse cultures in manifold countries or regions across the world....
Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning
A Guide to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The third edition of Patricia Cranton’s Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning brings a wealth of new insight from the tremendous growth in the field during the decade since the previous edition. As in the previous editions, the book helps adult educators understand what transformative...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
We recognize that our society and demands for lifelong learning changes rapidly, and needs to continue to be rapidly effectively infused in changing forms into the teaching and learning process. Conversations about Adult Learning in Our Complex World focuses the study of adult learning to address...
Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, Volume 6
Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice: A Project of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice, Volume 6, includes chapters on:
*Demographic change and low-literacy Americans;
*The role of vocabulary in Adult Basic Education;
*Implications of research on spelling for Adult Basic Education;
*Issues in teaching...
Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education
In Quest of a U.S. Democratic Politics of Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The book provides a historical overview of adult literacy theory, policy, practice, and research from the mid-1980s to the present. The main focus is a descriptive analysis of three distinctive schools of literacy: the Freirean-based participatory literacy movement grounded in oppositional politics...
Adult Education and Work Contexts: International Perspectives and Challenges
Comparative Perspectives from the 2017 Wuerzburg Winter School
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Adult education has deep connections with employment contexts. This volume discusses interrelations within transnational contexts studied during the Würzburg Winter School on Comparative Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning (COMPALL). The book shows that adult education and work contexts...
The Adult Learner
The definitive classic in adult education and human resource development
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children?
How does their life experience inform their learning processes?
These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’s pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education...