Adult education, continuous learning

Distinguished educators Arthur L.

Jennifer Kreß untersucht, wie ältere Menschen den Herausforderungen im Alltag durch den Einsatz neuer Medien begegnen können.

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

Teachers' Work is a highly readable, penetrating and often amusing account of the reality of teachers working lives, as relevant to the profession and its future as it was when first published in 1985.

This is a practical guide to reflective practice for teachers and trainee teachers in the FE and skills sector.

Needs Assessment for Learning and Performance offers comprehensive coverage of the knowledge and skills needed to develop and conduct needs assessments and to analyze, interpret, and communicate results to clients and organizations.

This edited book comprises chapters integrated around a central theme on college-educated Japanese, Korean, and Chinese women's orientation to English study.

Ecologies for Learning and Practice provides the first systematic account of the ideas of learning ecologies and ecologies of practice and locates the two concepts within the context of our contemporary world.

This book showcases research and project results on technology, smart learning, and sustainability education and analyzes smart learning solutions for lifelong learning.

Dancing Across Borders presents formal and non-formal settings of dance education where initiatives in different countries transcend borders: cultural and national borders, subject borders, professional borders and socio-economic borders.

Die Neupositionierung der Erwachsenenbildung in der Migrationsgesellschaft erfordert einen komplexen institutionellen Öffnungsprozess, der in den meisten Einrichtungen gerade erst begonnen hat.

This book weaves together current understanding around financial literacy and ageing, arguing for the relevance of financial literacy for old age security.

Financial literacy and financial education are not new topics, even though interest in these topics among policymakers, financial authorities, and academics continues to grow.

Strengthen your adult education program planning with this essential guide Planning Programs for Adult Learners: A Practical Guide, 4th Edition is an interactive, practical, and essential guide for anyone involved with planning programs for adult learners.

This book offers an international perspective on the growing interest worldwide in lifelong learning, particularly as it relates to learning beyond compulsory education and initial occupational preparation: across working life.

What can we do to help ELL students understand English?

One of the most vexing problems confronting educators today is the chronic achievement gap between black male students and their peers.

The approach taken in this book emphasizes the basics of information technology and helps students decide whether to pursue an information technology career.

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

This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact with technology in different learning environments.

Embodied Learning in the Schools explores the relevance of embodied perspectives to instructional designers and education scholars seeking to improve the design, development, and analysis of technology-enhanced learning environments in K-12 settings.

Die Handreichung dient als Leitfaden zur Durchführung von Bildungsmaßnahmen nach dem Konzept "Zertifizierte Teilqualifikationen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit" (TQ-Konzept) zum Beruf Maschinen- und Anlagenführer.

Die Autoren untersuchen, welche Modelle der Anerkennung und Anrechnung außerhochschulisch erworbener Kompetenzen an Hochschulen in der einschlägigen Literatur enthalten sind beziehungsweise bereits praktiziert werden und auf welche Weise diese systematisiert werden können.

Digitale Medien gehören inzwischen zur Diskussion um eine angemessene Bildung nachfolgender Generationen, die durch eine zunehmende Mediatisierung des Alltags immer mehr Eigendynamik erhält.

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

Applying for Jobs and Internships in Museums offers a straightforward approach to applying for positions within a museum.

Through an empathetic and positive approach to interpersonal communication, this book guides readers to build on the skills they already possess to communicate-and connect-with others.

First published in 1992.

A collection of essays written by arts and humanities scholars across disciplines, this book argues that higher education has been compromised by its uncritical acceptance of our culture's standards of productivity, busyness, and speed.

The organizational and institutional embedding of new learning is one of the biggest challenges for development.

This book challenges existing literature on student-athletes and examines the obstacles student-athletes face with respect to academic achievement in college.

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.

Teaching Sociology Successfully is a comprehensive guide to teaching, learning and delivering sociology, not only with success but with confidence.

Drawing on the role of individuals, education and training providers and countries' social policy actions, and borrowing insights from psychology, sociology and economics, this book works towards an interdisciplinary theory of adult lifelong learning participation.

The book provides a systemic view of the state-of-the- art of Digital Game Based Learning (DGBL) across the lifespan, from age-specific game design requirements to technological devices that could overcome child and older adult difficulties in the use of DGBL technologies.

Fully revised and expanded, this book presents a unique visual approach to academic writing and composition tailored to the needs of students with dyslexia in Higher Education.

This edition of the focused and comprehensive text written for TAQA learners and all trainee assessors and quality assurers is another essential support text from bestselling author Ann Gravells.

This practical guide addresses the challenges for building and maintaining a college research program in an environment that does not focus on supporting research activity and for those with a heavy teaching load.

Der Leitfaden präsentiert ein didaktisches Konzept, mit dem Tagungen, Symposien und Kongresse zu Lernorten werden.

This textbook gives a wide-ranging, research-informed introduction to issues in lifelong learning across a variety of educational settings and practices.

This is the core textbook for the Certificate in Education and Training.

How can teachers connect with and motivate students to embrace learning?

Assessment theory and practice forms an integral part of the knowledge and understanding required to achieve QTLS.

This book provides higher education students with a comprehensive resource to assist them in their academic persistence in an online course or program.