Adult education, continuous learning

This book examines continuing professional development (CPD) of teachers in Finland.

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.

This book contributes to understanding of how individual teachers in developing countries grow and evolve throughout their careers.

This book contains the full research papers presented at  the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held in 2017 at Wageningen University &  Research  in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

This book discusses the tradition of clowning from an educational perspective, highlighting the resonant philosophies between the two professions and asking what one can learn from the other.

The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work Education provides an authoritative overview of current understanding through coverage of key debates, exploring the state of play in particular social work education fields and reflecting on where the future might be taking us.

Are you looking for ways to encourage learners to think more creatively?

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.

Berufliche Bildung soll junge Menschen auf die Mitgestaltung einer digitalen Arbeitswelt vorbereiten, deren Anforderungen noch unbekannt sind.

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

Originally published in 1985 this book addresses important questions about the nature and meaning of development as these concern adult education in the developing world.

Teachers across the country are seeking ways to make their multicultural classrooms come alive with student talk about content.

This book explores the unique set of challenges faced by mature-age male undergraduates as they adapt to university study.

Everyone knows that education is important.

In both paid and unpaid work contexts adults learn powerfully from their experiences.

First published in 1988, International Organizations in Education is a collection of essays written to explore the various roles of international organizations in the field of adult education.

In this book, the basic conditions for local learning are described using the example of two regions in Styria and related to demographic and spatial factors.

Originally published in 1996.

Lifelong Learning is essential to all individuals and in recent years has become a guiding principle for policy initiatives, ranging from national economic competition to issues of social cohesion and personal fulfilment.

`This concise book is strongly recommended as an invaluable source both for new teachers and for their mentors who may be well experienced, but nevertheless glad of new ideas for coping with the demanding and fundamental shifts in how teaching is undertaken and assessed' - ESCaslate Making Teaching Work provides a down-to-earth, jargon-free book for teaching staff in universities and colleges and includes reference to some of the best modern literature on assessment, teaching and feedback.

This book explores the state of open education in terms of self-directed learning on the African continent.

Der Band stellt ein Konzept werte- und sozialraumorientierter Bildung vor, das Bürger in politischen und kirchlichen Gemeinden anregt, im Alltag neue Lernorte (Bank, Kunstatelier etc.

Nach seinem ersten Werk über betriebliche Inklusion bietet Paco D'Acquarica mit "Gemeinsam wachsen: Wie Inklusion von Menschen mit Behinderung am Ausbildungs- und Arbeitsplatz gelingt" eine weitere umfassende und praxisnahe Beratung für Unternehmen und Fachpersonal auf dem Weg zur Vielfalt.

Winner of the AAACE Cyril O.

Reflective Practice for Professional Development provides an accessible introduction to the theory and practice of reflection.

A competency is a combination of knowledge, skills and attitude that one needs in order to function adequately in any given professional situation - a nurse must know how to give a crying child a vaccination, and a policeman must be able to stop a drunken brawl.

Social science departments, both nationally and internationally, market boundless career destinations for their graduates but fail to identify the pathways to these lucrative destinations, and appear oblivious to the social forces that threaten their existence, such as the discerning parent's investment in their offspring's education and mounting individual student debt.

Die Handreichung dient als Leitfaden zur Durchführung von Bildungsmaßnahmen nach dem Konzept "Zertifizierte Teilqualifikationen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit" (TQ-Konzept) für die Beruf Servicefachkraft für Dialogmarketing.

Der Sammelband ist Retrospektive und reflektierte Mutmaung uber die Zukunft der Planspiele (Gaming).

Die sechs englischsprachigen Beitrage dokumentieren die Konzepte der von der EU im Rahmen von Prevalet geforderten internationalen Zusammenarbeit zwischen regionalen Regierungen im europaischen Raum sowie dem daraus resultierenden Aufbau eines Systems zur Unterstutzung und Beschleunigung des Lern- und Innovationstransfers zwischen den europaischen Regionen.

The Grants Register 2022 is the most authoritative and comprehensive guide available of postgraduate and professional funding worldwide.

During the 1980s and 1990s the elaboration of a reformed system of vocational qualifications was perhaps the most controversial of all the governments efforts to improve the provision of vocational education and training.

';It's not the doing that matters; it's the thinking about the doing,' said John Dewey.

Around the world, the landscape of Higher Education is increasingly shaped by discourses of employability, rankings, and student satisfaction.

Women's careers have been a topic of research and discussion in many disciplines including sociology, business, industrial, organisational and vocational psychology, and career guidance.

This edited volume uses an African-centred approach to examine a renewed vision of development education in Africa.

Whether entering higher education straight from school, or returning to study later in life, students need to develop effective study skills to get the most out of a course.

Written to assist those seeking to understand the key global drivers, and an overview of key challenges facing senior leaders and managers today, this book focuses on the complex and highly politicised area of teaching and learning in higher education.

Originally published in 1983, this book not only dissects the intrinsic and oppressive sexism of conventional adult and continuing education, but also argues the case for women-centred education with a powerful and compelling logic.

Winner of the 2025 James W.

Originally published in 1990 this supplement to No.

This book presents how to keep working on education in contexts of crisis, such as emergencies, zones of conflict, wars and health pandemics such as COVID-19.

Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy brings together a diverse selection of essays to examine the knowledge production crisis in higher education and the role that news media and technology play in this process.

This book presents thoughts on and experiences with the introduction of Theme-centered Interaction (TCI) into academia.

This book advocates for teacher professional development done differently.

Spark a culture of success.