Disaffection And Diversity: Overcoming Barriers For Adult Learners
ISBN: 9780750701181 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A quiet but profound revolution in the design and delivery of learning opportunities for adults and in the accrediation of learning outcomes is taking place. Higher education is expanding at a rate which exceeds even that of the Robbins era; alternative routes for adults into further and higher education and into training are being introduced through the use of Access courses, and through the recognition of competencies acquired in a whole variety of different ways. The structure of the courses and training which adults can now undertake, the methods of teaching those courses and the types of...
A quiet but profound revolution in the design and delivery of learning opportunities for adults and in the accrediation of learning outcomes is taking...
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257,04 zł |
Lifelong Learning: Education Across the Lifespan
ISBN: 9780750709903 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Lifelong Learning' is a hot issue for educators across the world, as societies everywhere are concerned with developing a literate, skilled and flexible workforce and to widen participation in education at all levels and for all age-groups. This book covers all the major issues, with well-known academic contributors working in the field and covering the topics of theoretical, global and curriculum perspectives, widening participation and the industrial university.
Topics covered include: * Community education * Popular education * Higher education * The corporate... 'Lifelong Learning' is a hot issue for educators across the world, as societies everywhere are concerned with developing a literate, skilled ...
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Lessons Without Limit: How Free-Choice Learning is Transforming Education
ISBN: 9780759101609 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lessons Without Limit is not just another book about school reform but a highly readable guide to transforming the entire experience of learning across a lifetime. Free-choice learning is all about what you choose to do in your learning time. We learn every day at home, at school, at work, and out in the world, from books, in museums, watching television, hearing a symphony, building a model rocket. Our motivations and expectations change over our lifetime but learning never stops. This book will give you a new understanding of the learning process and guide you in maximizing your lifelong...
Lessons Without Limit is not just another book about school reform but a highly readable guide to transforming the entire experience of learning acros...
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104,61 zł |
The Research Funding Guidebook: Getting It, Managing It, and Renewing It
ISBN: 9780761902300 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This hands-on guide begins at the point many grant seekers can identify with - rejection. Part One emphasizes how to resubmit unfunded applications to make them more competitive. The material contained in this section is invaluable, especially since funding sources are now limiting the number of times the same application can be resubmitted. Part Two highlights the practical issues of a project after funding has been obtained. The authors provide a map of the people and places that must become part of a researcher's daily and weekly routine, a checklist to aid the newly funded researcher's...
This hands-on guide begins at the point many grant seekers can identify with - rejection. Part One emphasizes how to resubmit unfunded applications to...
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472,22 zł |
The Research Funding Guidebook: Getting It, Managing It, and Renewing It
ISBN: 9780761902317 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This hands-on guide begins at the point many grant seekers can identify with - rejection. Part One emphasizes how to resubmit unfunded applications to make them more competitive. The material contained in this section is invaluable, especially since funding sources are now limiting the number of times the same application can be resubmitted. Part Two highlights the practical issues of a project after funding has been obtained. The authors provide a map of the people and places that must become part of a researcher's daily and weekly routine, a checklist to aid the newly funded researcher's...
This hands-on guide begins at the point many grant seekers can identify with - rejection. Part One emphasizes how to resubmit unfunded applications to...
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262,34 zł |
Building Self-Esteem with Adult Learners
ISBN: 9780761954750 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The book is a useful introductory reader for any initial post-compulsory teacher training programme, or the early stages of a degree in post-compulsory education and training. It would also be valuable additional reading for basic skills tutors embarking on the new adult literacy and numeracy qualifications' - Escalate 'It is a useful and practical resource which, even if not used for the purposes of staff development, contains helpful insights into something we often talk about but rarely stop to examine' - Adult Learners Self-esteem is a major factor in learning outcomes, with research...
'The book is a useful introductory reader for any initial post-compulsory teacher training programme, or the early stages of a degree in post-compulso...
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272,83 zł |
Key Concepts in Leisure Studies
ISBN: 9780761970576 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book confirms David Harris' status as a leading theorist in contemporary culture and leisure in the UK. He offers a distinctive, coherent and authoritative guide to the major concepts and debates that should engage leisure scholars and scholarship' - Dr Peter Bramham, Senior Lecturer in Leisure Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University Written with the needs of today's student in mind, the SAGE Key Concepts series provides accessible, authoritative and reliable coverage of the essential issues in a range of disciplines. Written in each case by... This book confirms David Harris' status as a leading theorist in contemporary culture and leisure in the UK. He offers a distinctive, coherent and ... |
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918,20 zł |
Key Concepts in Leisure Studies
ISBN: 9780761970583 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book confirms David Harris' status as a leading theorist in contemporary culture and leisure in the UK. He offers a distinctive, coherent and authoritative guide to the major concepts and debates that should engage leisure scholars and scholarship' - Dr Peter Bramham, Senior Lecturer in Leisure Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University Written with the needs of today's student in mind, the SAGE Key Concepts series provides accessible, authoritative and reliable coverage of the essential issues in a range of disciplines. Written in each case by... This book confirms David Harris' status as a leading theorist in contemporary culture and leisure in the UK. He offers a distinctive, coherent and ... |
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204,57 zł |
Schools and Work: Technical and Vocational Education in France Since the Third Republic
ISBN: 9780773521476 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the half century since the World War II, France has developed from a conservative, semi-rural society in which the great majority of the population had only a primary education to a highly developed modern one with a remarkably well-educated and well-trained citizenry and labour force. Technical and vocational education, which before 1960 were confined to an enclave within the French education system, now permeate the entire system. Business and industry, long isolated from education, now play a major role in educational decision making. The French educational system today meets the demand...
In the half century since the World War II, France has developed from a conservative, semi-rural society in which the great majority of the population...
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540,42 zł |
Adult Education in the American Experience: From the Colonial Period to the Present
ISBN: 9780787900250 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Stubblefield and Keane have brought a high degree of organization and coherence to the very complex history of adult education in the United States. No one who is serious about the study of adult learning can afford to be without this thoroughly researched volume."
—David W. Stewart, director of program development, the Center for Adult Learning and Educational Credentials, American Council on Education From the earliest contributions of Native Americans in the colonial period to the workforce preparation crisis in the 1980s, this book explores the patterns,... "Stubblefield and Keane have brought a high degree of organization and coherence to the very complex history of adult education in the United States. ...
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283,74 zł |
Leadership for the Emerging Age: Transforming Practice in Adult and Continuing Education
ISBN: 9780787900366 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jerold W. Apps draws on twenty-five years of experience researching and teaching leadership and leadership development to provide adult educators with a blueprint for developing a profoundly different approach to leadership--one that is all-embracing of ideas and people, capitalizes on diversity, and remains open and responsive to change.
Jerold W. Apps draws on twenty-five years of experience researching and teaching leadership and leadership development to provide adult educators with...
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204,30 zł |
The Bases of Competence: Skills for Lifelong Learning and Employability
ISBN: 9780787909215 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Bases of Competence explains what skills and competencies students need to succeed in today's workplace and details how colleges and universities can strengthen the curriculum to cultivate these skills in their undergraduate students. The book addresses the continuing disparity between the skills developed in college and the essential skills needed in the dynamic workplace environment. By providing a common language from which to work, The Bases of Competence enables both educators and employers to create educational experiences of practical and enduring value.
Drawing on... The Bases of Competence explains what skills and competencies students need to succeed in today's workplace and details how colleges and universities ...
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187,73 zł |
Learning from Our Lives: Using Educational Biographies with Adults
ISBN: 9780787910310 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -This book is refreshingly personal and studded with insightful case study examples. It is a timely and major contribution to the literature of adult education.-
--Jack Mezirow, professor emeritus, Adult and Continuing Education, Teachers College, Columbia University -A brilliant tribute to the value of teachers intentionally guiding students to sharpen what I believe Howard Gardner has named intrapersonal intelligence.- --Margaret Holt, assistant professor, University of Georgia, Athens -A valuable contribution to the growing dialogue centering around... -This book is refreshingly personal and studded with insightful case study examples. It is a timely and major contribution to the literature of adult ...
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176,68 zł |
Lifelong Learning at Its Best: Innovative Practices in Adult Credit Programs
ISBN: 9780787946036 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -A must-read for anyone in higher education, human resource development, or adult education. This impeccably researched book reflects an encyclopedic and intimate knowledge of innovative adult higher education programs and provides an impressive historical context for such programs. It will be a classic sourcebook for anyone in the field.-
--Howard Y. Williams, professor emeritus, Human Resource Development and Adult Education, University of Minnesota -A comprehensive, careful, and compelling study of adult learners and learning today. Lifelong Learning at Its Best... -A must-read for anyone in higher education, human resource development, or adult education. This impeccably researched book reflects an encyclopedic ...
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215,25 zł |
Power in Practice: Adult Education and the Struggle for Knowledge and Power in Society
ISBN: 9780787947293 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -The single most important contribution to our field's knowledge base in the past two decades. The authors have managed to shift the focus of adult education back to the social concerns that were taken for granted when the field was founded. We are ready for this long overdue book. Indeed, we have been yearning for this book. It will tilt our field back towards its moral center.-
--B. Allan Quigley, chair, Department of Adult Education, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia -Power in Practice is a wonderful book--full of case studies, updated theories, new perspectives,... -The single most important contribution to our field's knowledge base in the past two decades. The authors have managed to shift the focus of adult ed...
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225,04 zł |
The Power of Critical Theory: Liberating Adult Learning and Teaching
ISBN: 9780787956011 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 fostering the kind of learning that leads to a truly democratic society, and it explores a number of tasks for adult learners including learning to challenge ideology, contest hegemony, unmask power, overcome alienation, learn liberation, reclaim reason, and practice democracy.
The Power of Critical Theory is Brookfield's attempt to put the -critical- back into critical thinking by emphasizing that it is an inherently ...
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176,68 zł |
Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education
ISBN: 9780787957230 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education is written from the unique perspective of teacher, researcher, and author Elizabeth Tisdell who has extensive experience dealing with culture, gender, and educational equity issues in secular adult and higher education classrooms, and formerly in pastoral and religious education settings on college campuses. This important book discusses how spiritual development is informed by culture and how this knowledge is relevant to teaching and learning. For educators, an understanding of how spirituality is informed by culture, and how...
Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education is written from the unique perspective of teacher, researcher, and author Elizabeth T...
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215,25 zł |
Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults
ISBN: 9780787959678 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this updated version of her landmark book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach, celebrated adult educator Jane Vella revisits her twelve principles of dialogue education with a new theoretical perspective gleaned from the discipline of quantum physics. Vella sees the path to learning as a holistic, integrated, spiritual, and energetic process. She uses engaging, personal stories of her work in a variety of adult learning settings, in different countries and with different educational purposes, to show readers how to utilize the twelve principles in their own practice with any type of...
In this updated version of her landmark book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach, celebrated adult educator Jane Vella revisits her twelve principle...
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176,68 zł |
Working Planning Table Negotiating
ISBN: 9780787962067 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Working the Planning Table, Ronald M. Cervero and Arthur L. Wilson offer a theory that accounts for planners' lived experience and provides a guide for developing effective educational programs for adults. The book presents three planning case studies that illustrate how power, interests, ethical commitment, and negotiation are central to planners' everyday work. These stories offer guidance on how to respond to the realities of practice and clearly point out that the technical work of planning is always political. Working the Planning Table reveals how people work to...
In Working the Planning Table, Ronald M. Cervero and Arthur L. Wilson offer a theory that accounts for planners' lived experience and provides ...
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198,83 zł |
Rethinking Student Affairs Practice
ISBN: 9780787962142 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To be effective managers, student affairs professionals must understand the structures and processes that form the organizational context in which they work, and must be able to work within them. These structures are often characterized by a rigid division of labor and an expectation that good managers can predict the outcomes of their efforts and can and should exercise control over the inputs. However, to be effective leaders, they must be able to perceive new possibilities beyond those structures and expectations. How can they do both?
Rethinking Student Affairs Practice offers... To be effective managers, student affairs professionals must understand the structures and processes that form the organizational context in which the...
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193,25 zł |