Adult education, continuous learning

Transformative Learning Theory and Praxis examines the multi-faceted nature of transformative learning and transformation theory including its merits, restrictions, and possibilities, and presents carefully chosen international case studies and theoretical approaches that enrich the application of the theory within a wide variety of educational settings.

Gain useful practical knowledge of participatory visual methods in adult and continuing education.

This is a core text for anyone training to be (or working as) an assessor in the further education and skills sector.

How to be a Brilliant FE Teacher is a straightforward, friendly guide to being an effective and innovative teacher in post-compulsory education.

This book offers a practical solution to the challenges trainee teachers and practising teachers face when asked to address English and maths across the further education curriculum.

This volume guides workplace trainers in teaching the significance of Employee-Driven Innovation (EDI) and recognising that each and every employee is capable of being the driver of innovation.

This book examines the difficult and wide-ranging issues relating to how we understand our environment, our place in it, and how we choose to act.

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

Political intrigue.

The challenge for those coaching, mentoring, supervising or teaching adults is to design and deliver high-quality programmes that encompass a blend of teaching and learning approaches and strategies, that are constructed for adult learners in multiple educational environments and that cater for the diversity of adult learners' needs.

An Evidence-based Guide to College and University Teaching outlines a definition of "e;model teaching"e; based on research evidence and accepted best practices in high education.

The Award in Education and Training is the threshold qualification for anyone wanting to teach in a wide range of contexts including the further education and skills sector, workplace learning, offender learning and adult and community settings.

@text: Everyone knows that education is important, we are confronted daily by discussion of it in the media and by politicians, but how much do we really know about education?

This book explores the innovative and research methods of the teaching-learning process in Engineering field.

Wenn sich Lehrveranstaltungen zu Lernveranstaltungen wandeln, rücken die Lernenden und ihre Handlungskompetenzen in den Fokus.

Vocational Education in the Nordic Countries: Learning from Diversity is the second of two books that disseminates new and systematic knowledge on the strengths and weaknesses of the different models of vocational education and training (VET) in four Nordic countries.

In den in diesem Buch in Rede stehenden sechs Jahrzehnten des Übergangs ins industrielle Zeitalter, in denen sich u.

Unbeeindruckt von den Meldungen über die Kündigungen in weiten Teilen der Internet-Wirtschaft, der New Economy und Start-Ups touren große Unternehmen durch die Lande, um potenzielle Nachwuchskräfte anzuwerben.

How does the home culture of Latino immigrant students differ from the "e;mainstream"e; culture of U.

This book explores the role of students' involvement in teacher professional development.

First published in 1984, Careers Counselling in Practice is intended as a practical guide and a review of developments in careers work.

Ob und wie Ideen und Projekte aus Förderprogrammen an Hochschulen und in anderen Organisationen in die Breite transferiert werden, ist Gegenstand des vorliegenden Buchs.

Dyslexia: Surviving and Succeeding at College is a practical and easy-to-read guide for dyslexic and dyspraxic students.

This book offers insights from a seven-year study into the impact of English as an International Language at a national level, from the effect of rich English input on a previously monolingual people's linguistic repertoire to its effect on the situated language use demanded of speakers who find themselves in a new linguistic environment for which they have not been prepared.

Personen, die mit Gruppen und Teams in den verschiedensten Praxisfeldern arbeiten, finden in diesem Buch vielfältige Übungsmöglichkeiten und gruppendynamische Arbeitsmodelle.

The International Handbook of Research in Professional and Practice-based Learning discusses what constitutes professionalism, examines the concepts and practices of professional and practice-based learning, including associated research traditions and educational provisions.

Educators, politicians, parents, and even students are consumed with speaking the language of academic achievement.

This book is a selection of 15 papers developed by participants in ICME 13 held in Hamburg , presenting insights from the latest research on the andragogy of adult and lifelong learning of mathematics.

Designed to help the reader move through an empirical research project, this book describes how they can think like a researcher.

After long periods of military dictatorships, civil wars, and economic instability, Latin America has changed face, and become the foremost region for counter-hegemonic processes.

Originally published in 1992 this book looks at the phenomenon of adult education by exploring the nature of the motivation that moves people to return to school or to seek involvement inorganized learning activities.

To help researchers, educators and policy makers understand and support the development of 21st-century skills in schools, this edited volume explores the various iterations of "e;soft"e; skills with a particular focus on their implications for values and evaluates ways in which "e;soft skills"e; and "e;hard"e; values can be integrated.

Still going strong today, The Open University, Britain's national correspondence - TV - radio University, excited much controversy when it first opened and in 1973 awarded its first degrees.

In dem vorliegenden Sammelband werden wesentliche Forschungsergebnisse aus qualitativen und quantitativen Studien eines Forschungsprojekts zu berufsbegleitendem Studieren und zu lebenslangem Lernen veröffentlicht.

Educational researchers, policy-makers and practitioners are increasingly focusing their attention on Professional Learning Networks in order to facilitate teacher development and encourage school and school system improvement.

Bringing together the current international body of knowledge on key issues for educating for well-being in law, this book offers comparative perspectives across jurisdictions, and utilises a range of theoretical lenses (including socio-legal, psychological and ethical theories) in analysing well-being and legal education in law.

The fourth edition of Psychology and Adult Learning has been thoroughly updated to encompass shifts in the concerns of adult educators as they respond to changing global social and economic issues.

Reimagining Adult Education as World Building offers a new way of thinking about adult education by re-envisaging how adult education works.

Have you learned how to learn?

This book seeks to develop the philosophy of Heidegger notion and reflects the growing importance of work based studies which is becoming of special interest to higher education institutions and commercial organisations.

"e;What the teacher wants me to say is more important than what I want to say.

The time is right for this comprehensive, state-of-the-art Handbook that analyzes, integrates, and summarizes theoretical advances and research findings on adult development and learning - a rapidly growing field reflecting demographic shifts toward an aging population in Western societies.

The leading authorities in the field produced this comprehensive resource, which provides strategies and methods for fostering Transformative Learning (TL) practice in a wide variety of higher and adult education settings.

Criminal Justice Internships: Theory Into Practice, Tenth Edition, guides the student, instructor, and internship site supervisor through the entire internship process, offering advice and information for use at the internship site as well as pre-planning and assessment activities.