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Adult Education at the Crossroads : Learning Our Way Out
Matthias Finger
Paperback - $82.95
This assessment the state of adult education--its traditions, current problems, and possible futures--is written from a social action perspective. The authors demonstrate how adult education's commitment to deliver social change ran into difficulties ...
Learning in Real Time : Synchronous Teaching and Learning Online
Jonathan E. Finkelstein
Paperback - $53.95
"Learning in Real Time" is a concise and practical resource for education professionals teaching live and online or those wanting to humanize and improve interaction in their online courses by adding a synchronous learning component. The book offers ...
Using Learning to Meet the Challenges of Older Adulthood : New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education
James C. Fisher
Paperback - $59.95
Significant changes in the national demography bring us to a turning point in our understanding of older adults, in the challenges they are likely to face, and in the contribution learning may make to their later years. This sourcebook views learning ...
Applying Cognitive Learning Theory to Adult Learning : New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education
Daniele D. Flannery
Paperback - $55.95
While much is written about adult learning, basic tenets of cognitive theory are ften taken for granted. The purpose of this volume of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education is to present an understanding of basic cognitive theory and to a ...
Dimensions of Adult Learning : Adult Education and Training in a Global Era
Griff Foley
Paperback - $123.95
Learning in Social Action : A Contribution to Understanding Education and Training
Griff Foley
Hardcover - $172.95
This book seeks to increase our understanding of those non-educational contexts and informal circumstances in which people learn. Adult educators, Professor Foley argues, ought not to neglect the importance of the incidental learning which can take p ...
Closing the Achievement Gap : How to Reach Limited-Formal-Schooling and Long-Term English Learners
Yvonne S. Freeman
Paperback - $43.95
Struggling older English learners pose a real challenge for educators. Some of these students are new arrivals with limited or interrupted schooling.
A Transactional Perspective on Teaching and Learning : A Framework for Adult and Higher Education
D. R. Garrison
Hardcover - $246.95
Published as part of the successful Advances in Learning and Instruction Series, this book provides a comprehensive and coherent perspective on the processes and outcomes of a meaningful and worthwhile educational experience in adult and higher educa ...
Lifelong Education
Ettore Gelpi
Paperback - $82.95
The nature of education is changing radically throughout the world. It is increasingly becoming a lifelong process in which the most important learning happens in the post-school years, outside the traditional educational institutions. The human life ...