Adult education, continuous learning

The Handbook of Race and Adult Education While much attention has been given to inclusion, diversity, and multiculturalism within adult education, The Handbook of Race and Adult Education is the first comprehensive work to engage in a dialogue specifically about race and racism and the effect these factors have on the marginalization or oppression of groups and individuals.

Drawing on a rich variety of participatory action research methods including ethnographic observation, artefact collection, focus groups, and interviews, this volume explores the transformational potential of development programs which actively involve marginalized groups.

'This book provides teachers in higher education with what they need - a compelling framework for improving student learning.

Peace Education and the Adult Learner presents a survey of recent developments in adult and peace education.

What type of questioning invigorates and sustains productive discussions?

Learners complain that they do not get enough feedback, and educators resent that although they put considerable time into generating feedback, students take little notice of it.

Looking for a comprehensive one-stop resource on transitions across the life course?

If you have ever found yourself frustrated by the lack of printed materials for ideas to be used in conducting classes or activities with older adults, look no more!

Der Band verbindet mehr als 60 Kolumnen, die in der Schweizer Zeitschrift für Berufsbildung Folio zwischen 2012 und 2022 erschienen sind.

The PTLLS qualification has since been replaced with the Award in Education and Training (with a text book of the same name).

Drawing on debates around the global/local dimensions of cultural production, an international team of contributors explore the appropriation of Shakespeare's plays in film and performance around the world.

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

This book examines the experiences of adult learners in times of austerity.

A research-based foundational overview of contemporary adult education Foundations of Adult and Continuing Education distills decades of scholarship in the field to provide students and practitioners with an up-to-date practical resource.

Originally published in 1980 this book examines why adult education historically failed to attract working class students and whether experiences in Northern Ireland, the USA and Italy have any lessons to teach.

This book investigates the sustainable education policy development in China in the aspects of challenges and strategies.

This book provides both an overview of the core dilemma in America--racism and the deadly impact it has had on American society--and an account of the ways in which the book's contributors have attempted to deal with this dilemma in their own teaching practice.

This book explores the mental and social landscape of the city of today and tomorrow; the way in which people think, interact, work together, learn and live with and among each other.

Teaching in Post-14 Education & Training provides a skilfully balanced mix of essential theory and practical guidance to support you if you are studying an ‘education and training’ qualification.

What is the role of narrative in how people learn throughout their lives?

The book offers a well-grounded vision of the significant theory and application of the concept of Capability as a lifecourse and lifespan development.

This practical book explores creative ways of teaching and learning in the lifelong learning sector and provides a toolkit of creative teaching approaches with the potential to transform your teaching practice.

Improving Mathematics at Work questions the mathematical knowledge and skills that matter in the twenty-first century world of work, and studies how the use of mathematics in the workplace is evolving in the rapidly-changing context of new technologies and globalisation.

It all began when the world's first business school, the European School of Commerce Paris (ESCP), was established in 1819.

This book explores the contributions that research, with refugees and with faith-based organizations for example, makes to strengthen community development and consequently promote active citizenship and social justice.

In this age of a hyper-complex and totally interconnected world that no longer knows pauses, forgiveness is essential.

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What if everything you know about careers is false?

Dieser Studientext Band 2 befasst sich mit den "Institutionen der Berufsbildung".

Critical Mobile Pedagogy is an exploration of mobile technologies for designing and delivering equitable and empowering education around the globe.

Work now invariably requires a continual focus on learning: to improve productivity, to enhance the flexibility of employees and to develop and transform organizations.

This book brings out the need for lifelong learning theory and explores how it is possible from a postmodern perspective.

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.

Curriculum is a key issue for trainee teachers in the lifelong learning sector and a core component of most courses.

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

This popular introductory textbook is ideal for anyone working or training to work in the lifelong learning sector.

Thousands of students graduate from university each year.

In dieser Studie werden die subjektiven Perspektiven von Teilnehmenden einer berufsvorbereitenden Bildungsmaßnahme im Übergangssektor rekonstruiert.

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.

In recent years, citizen science has emerged as a powerful new concept to enable the general public, students, and volunteers to become involved in scientific research.

Career Development: A Human Resource Development Perspective second edition offers an integrated framework for career development within the Human Resource function.

Reflexion gilt als Kernkompetenz pädagogischen Handelns im Lehrer*innenberuf, dennoch ist sie hinsichtlich ihrer Didaktisierung und Förderung umstritten.

Interest in learning at work has captured the attention of many people around the world, often taking centre stage in policy debates about improving economic performance, prosperity and well-being.

Understanding Applied Learning enables teachers, lecturers and educators to facilitate applied learning effectively with learners in schools, colleges and universities.

Schule ist ein Ort des Lernens der Schüler*innen, aber auch der Lehrer*innen.

Die räumliche Dimension der Bildung wird in den letzten Jahren immer intensiver diskutiert - von der Raumwahrnehmung und Raumgestaltung als Element von Bildung über kommunale und regionale Aspekte der Bildung bis hin zur Bildung an Lernorten unterschiedlichster Art.