Adult education, continuous learning

Re-thinking Careers Education and Guidance is the first book published in the United Kingdom to cover theory, policy and practice in all sectors of careers education and guidance provision.

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

Sascha Benedetti untersucht die Bedeutung gesellschaftlichen Engagements aus der Perspektive der Engagierten.

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.

Dieser Band stellt Forschungsprojekte vor, die pädagogisch-künstlerische Selbstverständnisse von Kunstschaffenden und deren Veränderungen im Rahmen pädagogischer Weiterbildungen untersuchen.

Die Bildungsbedürfnisse von Menschen "jenseits der Lebensmitte" rücken heute verstärkt in den Fokus.

Der Rechtspopulismus stellt eine Bewährungsprobe für die Demokratie, aber auch für die Bildungsinstitutionen dar.

How does classroom management affect student achievement?

Assessment is a value-laden activity surrounded by debates about academic standards, preparing students for employment, measuring quality and providing incentives.

Most educators are skilled at planning instruction and determining what they will do during the course of a lesson.

This book examines the role that technologies play in the lives of adults with learning disabilities.

The ultimate handbook for artists and makers to learn how to deliver outstanding in person and online workshops.

This book analyses how narrative fictions can be used by faculty and staff in the teaching of professionals in higher education.

This book makes an innovative, sociologically informed contribution to academic and policy discussions about informal work, skills and training for lifelong learning (LLL) and the promise of decent work and just transitions for sustainable development.

This book explains how information literacy (IL) is essential to the contemporary workplace and is fundamental to competent, ethical and evidence-based practice.

This book addresses the education and training of Members of Parliament (MPs).

Both accessible and comprehensive, Narrative Career Counselling bridges the gap between theory and practice to allow a full understanding of the topic and allow confident implementation within professional settings.

How can educators work together more effectively to improve professional practice in a way that enhances student performance?

In this inspiring and thought-provoking follow-up to his 2009 best-seller Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in Life, Baruti Kafele makes the case that the achievement gap between white and minority students can be closed only if educators first transform students' negative attitudes toward learning.

'Refreshing, original and full of pragmatic, evidence-based advice.

This book presents, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the Reflective Goal Setting model, its theoretical framework and origins, and its practical applications for personal development, improved coping and reduced stress, academic growth and performance and leadership.

The lucrative market of lifelong learning is one author Jeff Cobb has gained decades of experience working in as an entrepreneur and adviser.

Originally published in 1991, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive synthesis of developments, issues and practices related to a self-direction in learning.

This timely manual presents a new perspective on teaching and learning focused on countering the impacts of trauma on adults' ability to learn.

As librarians move into the middle of their careers, they are more ready than ever to take on new leadership opportunities.

Confidence in Critical Thinking bridges the gap between theory and application for both new and established educators who wish to recognise their own critical-thinking skills, develop them and, in turn, support the development of their learners.

Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed.

Nils Bernhardsson-Laros zeigt in seiner qualitativ-rekonstruktiven Studie, dass eine betriebliche Rekonstruktion des Employability-Konzeptes nur gelingen kann, wenn die Beschäftigten einbezogen und dabei unterstützt werden, es mit ihrem je spezifischen Konzept des „guten Lebens“ zu verbinden.

The definitive resource for mid-career professionals in the academy, this book provides a step-by-step guide to re-imagining the mid-career stage, regardless of career goals, whether aiming for full professorship or an administrative path, drawing on higher education, organizational studies, and human resource fields.

`Argued with a real verve, it makes a plea to rethink the role of tourism in modernity seeing it not as a fleeting and marginal element, but as something enduring, emblematic and constitutive of contemporary society.

This unique text provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in adult education and lifelong learning.

This book provides an in-depth insight into the Dedicated Education Units (DEU) clinical learning strategy.

This book discusses the contested issue of how different kinds of special educational support in Norway, such as placement in special classes or use of teacher assistants, prepare Special Educational Need (SEN) students for further education and adult life.

Sebastian Rausch legt aus diskursanalytischer Perspektive die grundlegenden Rationalitäten des bildungspolitischen Konzeptes Lebenslangen Lernens offen.

Large scale changes in work and education are a key feature of contemporary global transformations, with a pervasive politics that affects people's experiences of workplaces and learning spaces.

The book focuses on the issue of adapting the higher education system to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This book provides a comprehensive curriculum on essential job-related social skills that will aid educators, job coaches, behavior specialists, behavior analysts, and other professionals to improve employment outcomes of individuals with autism spectrum disorder and other neurodevelopmental disabilities.

This book presents a comprehensive discussion of sociocultural perspectives on graduate employability and workplace-based learning development.

Cultivating Moral Character and Virtue in Professional Practice is a pioneering collection of essays focused on the place of character and virtue in professional practice.

Enhancing the Wellbeing and Wisdom of Older Learners: A Co-research Paradigm examines how lifelong learning, becoming wise, and sharing wisdom are integrally linked to older people's wellbeing.

Originally published in 1975, Strategies for Postsecondary Education looks at how postsecondary education absorbs an increasing proportion of education budgets in developed countries.