Adult education, continuous learning

Cultivating Professional Identity in Design is a nuanced, comprehensive companion for designers across disciplines honing their identities, self-perception, personal strengths, and essential attributes.

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

Designed to mentor aspiring and current faculty, Becoming a Successful Community College Professor analyzes the ways in which the current institution of community colleges affects both staff and students, and presents strategies for effectively navigating the community college professor role from the point of job search to tenure status.

What does 'local' mean when it describes a student or an institution of higher education?

Using accountability tools, reflections, and 36 weeks' worth of invitations, Tina H.

This volume presents a scientific and practical trend in lifelong education, which focuses on "e;human activity"e;.

In The Coach Approach to School Leadership, Jessica Johnson, Shira Leibowitz, and Kathy Perret address a dilemma faced by many principals: how to function as learning leaders while fulfilling their evaluative and management duties.

This volume is aimed at all those who wonder about the mechanisms and effects of the disclosure of knowledge.

This book discusses the newest approach to online learning systems in higher education.

Published in 1993, this book considers the needs of older teenage students and the various forms of provision made for them.

The Emotionally Intelligent Online Tutor foregrounds the tutor within online and blended learning environments, and focusses on desirable skills, qualities and attributes for effective tutoring.

'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.

Now in its fifth edition, Academic Writing helps international students succeed in writing essays and reports for their English-language academic courses.

In today's complex and ever-changing world it has become obvious that even highly developed knowledge and skills are no longer sufficient to meet new challenges, situations and problems facing individuals, organisations and nations.

Effective Learning After Acquired Brain Injury provides clear guidance on delivering productive educational programmes for adolescents and adults with acquired brain injury (ABI).

Lectures remain a staple form of teaching in higher and professional education, yet presenting doesn't come naturally to most of us.

This book takes readers on a journey into the experiences, struggles and triumphs of early career researchers in the humanities.

This book defines and examines the needs of the marginalized student and presents a theoretically grounded model to guide institutions of higher education toward developing new and more effective programmatic responses.

The field of coaching adult populations has grown dramatically over the past two decades.

Falsch wiegt schwerer – weshalb ist das so?

This book examines the importance, and potential, of citizenship education, using extensive qualitative data from England and Sweden.

Originally published in 1982 this volume examines some of the themes and issues involved in the combined use of broadcasting, distance teaching methods and local tutorial or counselling provision for adult basic education.

Effective principals run effective schools-this much we know.

"e;This is a genuinely scholarly work .

Christina Salland untersucht am Beispiel der Marburger Sommerakademie für Darstellende und Bildende Kunst, welche Potenziale und Herausforderungen diese Veranstaltungsform für die Initiierung und Begleitung kultureller Bildungsprozesse bereithält.

Originally published in 1984.

Originally published in 1989, it was thought that one effective way out of the unemployment problem facing many young people in Britain at the time was to ensure that vocational courses in further education had a close 'fit' with the needs of industry and commerce.

Education as a concept has long been taken for granted.

To differentiate instruction is to act on the belief that all kids deserve access to the richest, most compelling learning experiences and to provide the scaffolding they need to seize that opportunity.

'This is an impressive book that will be of wide interest to adult educators everywhere.

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

This book is a practical guide to using artificial intelligence with motivated employees in companies and organizations.

Das Buch versteht sich als Beitrag zur mentalisierungsbasierten Pädagogik, die als noch recht junges pädagogisches Konzept der Prämisse folgt, dass durch eine mentalisierende Haltung von Fachkräften ein reflexiver Bezugsrahmen etabliert wird, der zu professionellem Handeln in der pädagogischen Arbeit mit belasteten Kindern und Jugendlichen beiträgt.

In this powerful new book, James Rickabaugh, former superintendent and current director of the Institute for Personalized Learning (IPL), presents the groundbreaking results of the Institute's half-decade of research, development, and practice: a simple but powerful model for personalizing students' learning experiences by building their levels of commitment, ownership, and independence.

Smartphones, videogames, webcasts, wikis, blogs, texting, emoticons.

Master All Subjects on the TABE Level AWhether you hope to enter college, take a job with the government, or work for a private company, a high score on the TABE will help you reach your goal.

Universities and Globalization: To Market, To Market examines the operations of power and knowledge in international education under conditions of globalization, with a focus on the three biggest exporters of higher education--the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

Informal learning has become an extremely important issue as post-industrial workplaces seek to harness its productive potential.

With contributions from around the world, this book brings together inter-related research from three fields: social capital, place management and lifelong learning regions.

This book seeks to extend perspectives on professional identity in education.

Lifelong Education for Adults: An International Handbook is the first work intended to offer international, encyclopedic coverage of research and studies in the whole field of adult education.

Throughout the world, people understand the meaning of 'apprenticeship'.

This book concerns the pursuit of wisdom in education, and the argument that wisdom - personified here as Sophia - is tragically marginalised or absent in current Western epistemological discourses.

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First Published in 1993.