Adult education, continuous learning

Service learning brings together students, academics and the community whereby all become teaching resources, problem solvers and partners.

An Introduction to Career Learning and Development 11-19 is an indispensible source of support and guidance for all those who need to know why and how career learning and development should be planned, developed and delivered effectively to meet the needs of young people.

Responding to the emerging needs of lifelong learners arguably represents one of the most fundamental challenges facing higher education systems of the countries of the developing world.

For over thirty years, portfolios have been used to help adult learners gain recognition for their prior learning and take greater control of their educational experiences.

Study Skills for Foundation Degrees offers a step-by-step guide to the skills needed to successfully complete a Foundation Degree.

Illustrated with numerous case studies-many drawn from the author's work as a forensic psychologist-this book identifies 19 myths and misconceptions about youth violence, from ordinary bullying to rampage shootings.

Smart implementation of the Common Core State Standards requires both an overall understanding of the standards and a grasp of their implications for planning, teaching, and learning.

This book explores the efficacy of innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to educational leadership preparation implemented at universities across the United States that serve K-12 populations in urban, rural, and suburban contexts.

This collection of first-hand accounts from experienced and accomplished learning technology practitioners highlights issues in using learning technologies for flexible, distance and open learning.

The Learning Engineering Toolkit is a practical guide to the rich and varied applications of learning engineering, a rigorous and fast-emerging discipline that synthesizes the learning sciences, instructional design, engineering design, and other methodologies to support learners.

How can opportunities for teaching and learning be improved to ensure that many more people participate, gain qualifications and obtain decent jobs?

Are you looking for high-impact, research-based strategies to transform your students into high-achieving and inspired learners?

Women in STEM are constantly facing new challenges every day.

You have a daily to-do list consisting of several dozen items.

This new text provides a jargon-free user guide to the key concepts, models and techniques of reflective practice from one of the leading writers in the field.

Improving Professional Learning through In-House Inquiry shows how to identify the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) needs of an individual or team and then to meet those needs through carrying out specific inquiry within the organisation.

Organisations today operate in a fascinating world where change is constant, fast and continues to accelerate.

It's one of the great mysteries of teaching: Why do some students "e;get it"e; and some students don't?

In response to the complexities of social change that have become evident in the 21st century, there is a need for innovation in career theory that takes into account new perspectives and the fluctuating contexts of people's lives.

Trade unions have historically been involved in education and training in the workplace.

Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments.

Principals navigate the dynamic complexities and subtleties of their schools every day.

Originally published in 1987 and now with an updated preface, this book distils and reflects upon major issues confronting adult educators worldwide.

The Emotional Learner combines practical advice with the latest evidence to offer essential guidance on how to understand positive and negative emotions.

How do "e;illegal aliens"e; chart the speech sounds of colloquial English?

Dr Marvin Oxenham expertly uses the genre of the epistolary novel to help the reader understand the nature of character and virtue education and their relationship to theological education.

The focus of governments across Europe and the U.

Every day, huge numbers of people use drugs or alcohol for recreation, medication, celebration, stress management, social lubrication, or escape.

This book chronicles the experiences of faculty at predominantly white higher education institutions (PWI) by centering voices of racialized faculty across North America.

Teachers working in Post Compulsory Education are recognised as being subject to a particularly acute set of pressures and challenges.

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge?

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, communities, and the workplace.

This comprehensive guide introduces and operationalises the Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM), offering an innovative tool for career development practitioners and academics to prepare university students for a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous labour market.

By 2010 the Government requires all teaching staff in the Lifelong Learning Sector to gain the QTLS (Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills) teaching qualification.

Originally published in 1985, this book was the first book in the UK to provide an overview of educational gerontology and examine the needs for educational opportunities for older adults.

Are we missing the opportunity to reach struggling learners from the very beginning?

The Development of the Mechanics' Institute Movement in Britain and Beyond questions the prevailing view that mechanics' institutes made little contribution to adult working-class education from their foundation in the 1820s to 1890.

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

An Introduction to Career Learning and Development 11-19 is an indispensible source of support and guidance for all those who need to know why and how career learning and development should be planned, developed and delivered effectively to meet the needs of young people.

This collection focuses on employer engagement in education, how it is delivered and the differentiated impact it has on young people in their progression through schooling and higher education into the labour market.

A new concept on human diversity has emerged over the past 10 years that promises to revolutionize the way educators provide services to students with special needs: neurodiversity.

As a principal, you know how challenging it is to build a dedicated staff, encourage parental support, help students get excited about learning, and create a working school culture.

Until relatively recently, adult learning in the UK was largely recognised as being situated mainly within the LEA adult education centre, university extra-mural departments and the WEA.

Drawing on three decades of practical investigations, this book establishes new understandings about the importance of learning through work, outlining its purposes, contributions, conceptions and the curriculum, pedagogical and personal practices that shape its effectiveness.

A largely undiscussed problem exists in the counseling community.

This book brings together leading scholars in the field to provide insights on economics of education.

Approaches to Work-Based Learning in Higher Education provides a comprehensive introduction to the delivery of university-level work-based learning (WBL) for educators and policymakers.

In this practical guide to designing and delivering interesting and effective presentations for adult audiences, Garmston and Wellman cover the five stages of a presentation and offer tips for executing each one.