Gramsci, Freire and Adult Education: Possibilities for Transformative Action
ISBN: 9781856496148 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on two of the most cited figures in the debate on radical education, Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and Paulo Freire (1921-1997). Both regarded forms of adult education as having an important role to play in the struggle for liberation from oppression. Peter Mayo examines the extent to which their combined insights can provide the foundation for a theory of transformative adult education. He considers their respective contributions to the development of such a theory, analyzes their ideas comparatively and identifies some of the limitations in their work for incorporation into...
This book focuses on two of the most cited figures in the debate on radical education, Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and Paulo Freire (1921-1997). Both ...
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Learning in Social Action: A Contribution to Understanding Informal Education
ISBN: 9781856496834 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 place, in particular, when people become involved in voluntary organisations, social struggles, and political activity of every kind. In developing the argument that such involvement can provide extraordinarily powerful learning opportunities, he uses case studies from the United States of America, Australia as well as Third World countries -...
This book seeks to increase our understanding of those non-educational contexts and informal circumstances in which people learn. Adult educators, Pro...
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441,75 zł |
Learning in Social Action: A Contribution to Understanding Informal Education
ISBN: 9781856496841 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 place, in particular, when people become involved in voluntary organisations, social struggles, and political activity of every kind. In developing the argument that such involvement can provide extraordinarily powerful learning opportunities, he uses case studies from the United States of America, Australia as well as Third World countries -...
This book seeks to increase our understanding of those non-educational contexts and informal circumstances in which people learn. Adult educators, Pro...
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181,84 zł |
Adult Education at the Crossroads: Learning Our Way Out
ISBN: 9781856497510 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a pithy assessment of where adult education now stands - the traditions out of which it came, its current problems, and possible futures. The authors are particularly concerned with how its longstanding commitment to deliver social change ran into difficulties in the less favourable circumstances of the 1980s and 1990s. They argue that its purposes now need to be reconceptualized in order for it to become, once again, a relevant and effective agent of change.
The authors remind adult educationists of their traditional commitment to social action by surveying the ideas of seminal... This is a pithy assessment of where adult education now stands - the traditions out of which it came, its current problems, and possible futures. The ...
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181,84 zł |
Practising Destiny: Principles and Processes in Adult Learning
ISBN: 9781902636214 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increasingly, people are realizing that education must continue throughout life. We face the choice of remaining as we are or developing ourselves. Through his extensive experience of leading seminars and training, the author developed three paths for adult learning: "vocational learning," "destiny learning," and "spiritual research learning." He describes the sevenfold path of destiny learning that leads through group-work to karmic knowledge. He also describes the seven professional fields of the adult educator as an aid to self-education.
Increasingly, people are realizing that education must continue throughout life. We face the choice of remaining as we are or developing ourselves. Th...
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87,52 zł |
Applying Andragogical Principles to Internet Learning
ISBN: 9781934043196 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this comprehensive study, Isenberg provides a rigorous account and investigation of online adult learning. Utilizing an Internet-based destination site called Virtual Health Coach, this study uses interpretive inquiry methods to assess how adults learn online and identifies 13 critical components of andragogical principles to Internet learning. (Education/Teaching)
In this comprehensive study, Isenberg provides a rigorous account and investigation of online adult learning. Utilizing an Internet-based destination ...
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561,00 zł |
In From the Margins : Adult Education, Work and Civil Society
ISBN: 9789077874462 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The theme of the Book is written in its working title "At the Margins of Adult Education, Work and Civil Society". Rather than focusing on active participants and active participation, the objective is to scrutinize the whole adult population in terms of participation, and to pay special attention to those who are so easily left out of studies concerning adult education, learning at work or active participation in civil society. The aim of the book is to bring into the discussion the views of those who do not find attending adult education possible and who thus form a challenge for the...
The theme of the Book is written in its working title "At the Margins of Adult Education, Work and Civil Society". Rather than focusing on active part...
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239,20 zł |
The Neuroscience of Adult Learning: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 110
ISBN: 9780787987046 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely volume examines links between the emerging neurobiological research on adult learning and the adult educators' practice.
Now that it is possible to trace the pathways of the brain involved in various learning tasks, we can also explore which learning environments are likely to be most effective. Topics explored in The Neuroscience of Adult Learning include:
This timely volume examines links between the emerging neurobiological research on adult learning and the adult educators' practice.
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Art, Culture, & Education: Artful Teaching in a Fractured Landscape
ISBN: 9780820457451 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the authors of this book were team teaching a course called -High and Low Art: Good and Bad Taste-, the -Sensation- controversy at the Brooklyn Museum broke out. This controversy not only shaped their course, but had larger implications for art, culture, and education in general for the twenty-first century. By asking serious aesthetic and cultural questions about art and teaching, this book explores the power of art to shape both our emotions and our intellect."
While the authors of this book were team teaching a course called -High and Low Art: Good and Bad Taste-, the -Sensation- controversy at the Brooklyn ...
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187,40 zł |
John Dewey Primer
ISBN: 9780820471365 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book lucidly and brilliantly demonstrates John Dewey s ongoing significance as an educational critic. After providing a fresh and provocative personal and intellectual biography of Dewey, this primer focuses on the relevance of his views of reflective thinking for both educational practice and theorizing about issues concerning curriculum, teaching, knowledge, ethics, moral education, constructivism, and perspectivism. This book also shows the crucial differences between reflective and dogmatic thinking and their implications for schooling, teaching, and learning. The work is a primer...
This book lucidly and brilliantly demonstrates John Dewey s ongoing significance as an educational critic. After providing a fresh and provocative per...
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106,90 zł |
The Ecology of Learning: Sustainability, Lifelong Learning and Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781844072040 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Your house is flooded by 'unseasonal' heavy rain. What do you learn from this experience? Do you shrug your shoulders and call your insurer? Or do you choose to learn about climate change, switch to renewable energy and lobby politicians? In this insightful book, John Blewitt explores the possibilities for developing a sustainable society through 'lifelong learning' � that is, learning that happens in everyday environments and activities as diverse as shopping, community, 'edutainment', information and communication technology, the internet, broadcasting, people's experience of place...
Your house is flooded by 'unseasonal' heavy rain. What do you learn from this experience? Do you shrug your shoulders and call your insurer? Or do you...
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228,62 zł |
Literacy, Language and Community Publishing: Essays in Adult Education
ISBN: 9781853592799 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together theoretical and practical debates from adult literacy and language education with those of creative writing and community publishing work. Illustrated by accounts of first-hand experience, each chapter focuses on the practical business of achieving good learning and development opportunities for women and men of all ages. Whether working with refugees seeking confidence in spoken English, elderly people reflecting on life experience, or basic education students wishing to 'improve' their literacy, the principle with which the writers are engaged is that of democracy...
This book brings together theoretical and practical debates from adult literacy and language education with those of creative writing and community pu...
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136,49 zł |
Navigating the Glass Maze: Phenomenological Interviews with Graduate Students of Adult Education Diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity D
ISBN: 9780595446179 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Navigating the Glass Maze: Phenomenological Interviews with Graduate Students of Adult Education Diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity D
ISBN: 9780595711260 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much has been written, in recent years, on what it is to be an adult diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). Whether interested in diagnostics, treatment, socialization, self-help, or the history of AD/HD, informative and insightful literature abounds. With publication of Navigating the Glass Maze, Tad A. Vogl, Ed.D. takes the reader on a somewhat different journey. Dual-diagnosed with AD/HD and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in his early thirties, Dr. Vogl initiated a series of interviews with four individual graduate students of adult education - all of whom...
Much has been written, in recent years, on what it is to be an adult diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). Whether interest...
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108,72 zł |
Global Perspectives on Adult Education
ISBN: 9780230607958 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates how processes of globalization (economic, cultural, socio-political) are creating new possibilities and inequities and are thereby creating corresponding roles for adult education and learning in the South (Africa, Asia, South America) that are embedded in multiple political, economic and cultural projects for social change.
This book demonstrates how processes of globalization (economic, cultural, socio-political) are creating new possibilities and inequities and are ther...
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428,00 zł |
The Profession and Practice of Adult Education: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780470181539 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Profession and Practice of Adult Education is a timely book and an excellent introduction to the field. Drawing from an extensive volume of literature, it provides comprehensive coverage and a clear guide. Graduate students will benefit from it and practitioners will be kept abreast of changes that are occurring.
--Peter Jarvis, professor of continuing education and senior research professor, University of Surrey, United Kingdom The Profession and Practice of Adult Education is a timely book and an excellent introduction to the field. Drawing from an extensive volume of...
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202,36 zł |
Learning to Teach Adults: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780415423625 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learning to Teach Adults is an indispensable guide for anyone who teaches, or is planning to teach adults. This comprehensive yet light-hearted book gives sensible advice on the business of teaching and training, and is relevant for any subject taught, be it archery or zoology. Writing with passion and humour, the author provides helpful tips, ideas and practical examples throughout.
... Learning to Teach Adults is an indispensable guide for anyone who teaches, or is planning to teach adults. This comprehensive yet light-he... |
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909,47 zł |
Engaging Older Adults in Environmental Education
ISBN: 9783836490481 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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361,66 zł |
The Effects of Cooperative Learning in a Medical Education Program - Cooperative Learning versus Traditional Lecture: A Comparison Study in a Medical Education Program
ISBN: 9783836475938 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 21st century educators in the field of medical education will face a pedagogic paradigm shift to empower students to develop critical thinking skills and embrace collaborative learning. There is a lack of research in the field of medical education that validates that cooperative learning can successfully faciliate the acquisition of a content heavy curriculum with equal efficacy than tradition lecture. This educational monograph provides both the historical context and a practical application to incorporate cooperative learning into a medical education curriculum. The theoretical...
In the 21st century educators in the field of medical education will face a pedagogic paradigm shift to empower students to develop critical thinking ...
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270,10 zł |
Learner Attitude Effects on Advisement and Achievement in - The Effects of Advisor Persona, Motivational Orientation, and Help-Seeking on Solicited Ad
ISBN: 9783836499156 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of perceived self-efficacy, achievement goals, instructor effectiveness, meta-cognitive help-seeking strategy, and advisor familiarity upon frequency of advisement selection and learning achievement in multimedia-based instruction. The part experimental, part correlational research was conducted using 116 university undergraduate and graduate student volunteers. Participants self-reported perceptions and learning characteristics. A computer-based lesson on basic statistical concepts was completed to measure frequency of requested...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of perceived self-efficacy, achievement goals, instructor effectiveness, meta-cognitive help-...
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224,32 zł |