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Best Practices in Adult Learning
Lee Bash
Hardcover - $80.95
A growing dichotomy exists in the academy when it comes to adult learners— between those who recognize the dynamism of this student population and those who don't— with strong convictions expressed on either side. There is a compelling ne ...
New Patterns in Adult Learning
P. Belanger
Hardcover - $203.95
In post-industrial societies some workers will have stable, good jobs in knowledge and learning-intensive workplaces, while many others will be underemployed or locked into a series of precarious, low-skill jobs in the periphery of the economy. In su ...
Toward Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education
Alisa Belzer
Hardcover - $177.95
This volume revisits, problematizes, and expands the meaning of quality in the context of adult basic education. Organized around three themes-Accountability, Standards, and the Use of Documentation and Research; Program Structures and Instruction; a ...
Learner Attitude Effects on Advisement and Achievement in - The Effects of Advisor Persona, Motivational Orientation, and Help-Seeking on Solicited Ad
Thomas Hendon Blaylock
Paperback - $127.95
Modern Practice of Adult Education : A Postmodern Critique
Derek Briton
Paperback - $40.95
Briton challenges the dominant depoliticized vision of adult education, calling into question the modernist tenets and moral integrity of contemporary adult education practice. By examining his own struggle to escape the confines of modernist thought ...
The Power of Critical Theory : Liberating Adult Learning and Teaching
Stephen D. Brookfield
Hardcover - $73.95
"The Power of Critical Theory" is Brookfield's attempt to put the "critical" back into critical thinking by emphasizing that it is an inherently political process. The book presents powerful arguments for the importance of critical theory in fosterin ...
Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning : A Comprehensive Analysis of Principles and Effective Practices
Stephen D. Brookfield
Paperback - $73.95
1986 Winner of the Imogene Okes Award and the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education
The first book to receive both the Imogene Okes Award and the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education presented by the ...