Adult education, continuous learning

This book compels professionals to actively imbibe self-awareness in their thought process in order to help them manage complexities in business.

We differentiate instruction to honor the reality of the students we teach.

Problem-based learning is a way of constructing and teaching courses using problems as the stimulus and focus for student activity.

Effective digital skills are essential for all teachers and tutors in the Further Education (FE) and Skills Sector.

Citizen Inquiry: Synthesising Science and Inquiry Learning is the first book of its kind to bring together the concepts of citizen science and inquiry-based learning to illustrate the pedagogical advantages of this approach.

This book theorizes shadow education as a new component of curriculum, expanding the concept of curriculum to include this type of learning.

Originally published in 1988, this book examines the concept of culture and the transmission of cultural values in relations to adult education.

In today's modern climate, education and learning take place in multiple and diverse spaces.

Originally published in 1990, this title offers a range of perspectives from practitioners, administrators and researchers, examining personal experiences of disaffection in students and staff within the context of national political, social, and economic change.

This edited volume contains original chapters by some of the leading researchers and writers in HRD.

Like many ideas that inform policy, practice and research, 'transition' has many meanings.

Over the last decade there has been a resurgence of interest in what adults learn in their later years (often described as beyond 65) and how this learning is linked to current personal, social and global issues.

Making Sense of Lifelong Learning looks beyond the rhetoric about lifelong learning (LLL), and asks long overdue questions such as, Who is actually in need of LLL?

As a consequence of globalization and internationalization, there has been a dramatic increase in the number and diversity of students who are gaining international educational experience.

First published in 1984, this collection of essays was the first account of the development of the University of the Third Age in Britain (U3A).

The United States and China: two nations drastically different in demographics, history, political structures, and education systems.

With the growing environment and consciousness of "e;outcome-based education,"e; the importance of this subject has increased manyfold.

With life expectancy increasing, there is growing emphasis on encouraging older people to continue learning.

This book brings together social semiotics, cultural studies, multiliteracies, and other approaches in order to theorize very different learning environments, giving visibility to the modal effect in a range of disciplines.

The objective of this book is to prompt a re-examination of financial literacy, its social foundations, and its relationship to citizenship education.

Previously known as Achieving Your PTLLS Award, this third edition of the popular book comprehensively covers the new requirements for the new Level 3 Award in Education and Training for anyone training to teach in the Further Education and Skills sector or broader workplace and adult learning settings.

The main theme of the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Teacher Education and Professional Development (InCoTEPD 2019) is 'Teacher Education and Professional Development in Industry 4.

Understanding Applied Learning enables teachers, lecturers and educators to facilitate applied learning effectively with learners in schools, colleges and universities.

This practical guide to managing behaviour in Further and Adult Education is for all those training to teach in the sector.

This book addressed teachers' necessity to be able to respond to the new needs and demands caused by an ever-evolving educational system, as recognized in the national and international policy and research literature.

Designed to promote reflection, discussion, and action among the entire learning community, Educating Everybody's Children encapsulates what research has revealed about successfully addressing the needs of students from economically, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse groups and identifies a wide range of effective principles and instructional strategies.

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 professionalism for further, adult and vocational education practitioners.

This new edition (previously entitled "e;Teaching Using Information and Learning Technology in Further Education"e;) is an up to date resource for trainee and qualified teachers within the Lifelong Learning Sector.

In this book, author and teacher Katy Ridnouer focuses on the potentially overwhelming, sometimes puzzling, often delicate work of engaging both students and parents in the pursuit of learning and achievement.

'Lifelong Learning' is a hot issue for educators across the world, as societies everywhere are concerned with developing a literate, skilled and flexible workforce and to widen participation in education at all levels and for all age-groups.

Frustrated by the lack of opportunities to research, create learning experiences or make a basic living within the university on our own terms, para-academics don't seek out alternative careers in the face of an evaporated future; we just continue to do what we've always done: write, research, learn, think and facilitate that process for others.

Understanding the fundamentals of conducting good science, that will have an impact, is the goal of every aspiring scientist.

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this book explores the learning and literacy dimensions of local volunteering for social change in the Philippines.

This Reader examines the ways in which learning is organized in a diverse range of lifelong learning environments.

Originally published in 1992, this book presents an alternative view of adult education.

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

What type of questioning invigorates and sustains productive discussions?

This toolkit is designed for preparing health and social care practitioners for their role in facilitating learning in their workplace.

This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field.

Originally published in 1983.

This book explores how changes in the new world economy are affecting the education of male and female workers.

This book explores the lives, experiences and the formation of higher educational aspirations among marginalised migrant youth in South Africa.

Focusing on reimagining the purpose of vocational education and training (VET) and grounded in the reality of a small cohort of young South Africans and an institution seeking to serve them, Skills for Human Development moves beyond the inadequacies of the dominant human capital orthodoxy to present a rich theoretical and practical alternative for VET.

Just Teach!

Based on feedback from recruiters and written by two experts in the field, this handy guide is packed with tips on how to craft high quality CVs and covering letters.

Presenting original studies and rich conceptual analyses, this volume explores how cognitive and affective metrics can be used to effectively assess, modify, and enhance learning and assessment outcomes of simulations and games used in education and training.

Co-published with Colleges and universities are increasingly becoming significant sites for adult education scholarship-in large part due to demographic shifts.

What if everything you know about careers is false?

Originally published in 1992.