Adult Continuing Education category: 1694 books
The seven year education itch
Adult Learning in Vocational Training – my digital journey so far
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
As I approach seven years in the vocational education industry, I realised I’ve covered a fair bit of ground in the eLearning space. I wanted to share with others the experiences that I’ve had and lessons I’ve learnt. Understand what I’ve discovered about adult learners from a coal face perspective. ...
Adult Education
International Perspectives From China
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Originally published in 1987 and now with an updated preface, this book distils and reflects upon major issues confronting adult educators worldwide. Theories, practices and systems of adult education unify the contradictions between different traditions and phases, drawing on the distinctive perspective...
Grassroots Approaches to Combatting Poverty Through Adult Education
Supplement to Adult Education and Development No. 34/1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Originally published in 1990 this supplement to No. 34 (1990) of the journal Adult Education, discusses the relationship between adult education and development. All the studies included in it focus on the reduction of poverty.The majority of the studies cover Africa and South Asia, but there is also one covering the Aboriginal indigenous people of Australia.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
First published in 1984, this collection of essays was the first account of the development of the University of the Third Age in Britain (U3A). Changing employment patterns and increasing pressure on traditional areas of secondary and higher education has led to the idea that learning can be a life-long...
Wil Lou Gray
The Making of a Southern Progressive from New South to New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
In Wil Lou Gray: The Making of a Southern Progressive from New South to New Deal, Mary Macdonald Ogden examines the first fifty years of the life and work of South Carolina's Wil Lou Gray (1883-1984), an uncompromising advocate of public and private programs to improve education, health, citizen participation,...
From Adult Education to the Learning Society
21 Years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This unique text provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in adult education and lifelong learning. It includes more than twenty-five seminal articles from the first two decades of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, written by leading authors in the field from the...
by David Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Originally published in 1988, this book examines the concept of culture and the transmission of cultural values in relations to adult education. It emphasizes the importance of perceiving culture as a social construct which is part of a specific value system and questions how cultural development...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
In order to deliver optimum educational opportunities to learners, higher education institutions must utilize emerging innovations and resources. By doing so, they can begin to develop more student-centric pedagogies. Adult Education and Vocational Training in the Digital Age is an authoritative reference...
Working and Educating for Life
Feminist and International Perspectives on Adult Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Originally published in 1992, this book presents an alternative view of adult education. The author moves the analysis from the usual focus in adult education literature on skills and skill deficits, and concentrates instead on the educational potential of work itself. By linking issues of gender...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
The definition of education and learning has been changing in recent years, as the field experienced, and is still experiencing, many changes. One of those changes is a rise in adult learners in higher education. In order to cope with this particular change and set their classrooms up for success,...
Radicalizing Learning
Adult Education for a Just World
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Radicalizing Learning calls for a total rethinking of what the field of adult education stands for and how adult educators should assess their effectiveness. Arguing that major changes in society are needed to create a more just world, the authors set out to show how educators can help learners envision...
Skills for Employability Part One
Pre-Employment
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Further titles in the new Lifelong Learning: Personal Effectiveness Guides by Rosalie Marsh, which draw from her extensive skills & industrial experience in sales management, and work-based learning in adult and further education. It is a step in the personal and professional development journey...
by Peter Scales, Jo Pickering, Lynn Senior
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
A comprehensive guide to continuing professional development in the lifelong learning sector providing teachers with practical support and guidance alongside development activities.
Inquiry into the Future of Lifelong Learning in the UK
An International Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This volume offers a comprehensive international response to the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)’s inquiry into the future of lifelong learning in the UK. The book focuses upon some of the main themes of the inquiry, and analyses them from very broad perspectives undertaken...