Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education

Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education
By:Arthur L. Wilson,Elisabeth Hayes
Published on 2009-04-27 by John Wiley & Sons

Sponsored by the American Association of Adult & Continuing Education |This monumental work is a testimony to the science of adult education and the skills of Wilson and Hayes. It is a veritable feast for nourishing our understanding of the current field of adult education. The editors and their well-chosen colleagues consistently question how we know and upon what grounds we act. They invite us to consider not only how we can design effective adult education, but also why we practice in a particular socio-economic context.| —Jane Vella, author of Taking Learning to Task and Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach |This new handbook captures the exciting intellectual and professional development of our field in the last decade. It is an indispensable resource for faculty, students, and professionals.| —Jack Mezirow, emeritus professor, Adult and Continuing Education, Teachers College, Columbia University For nearly seventy years, the handbooks of adult and continuing education have been definitive references on the best practices, programs, and institutions in the field. In this new edition, over sixty leading authorities share their diverse perspectives in a single volume--exploring a wealth of topics, including: learning from experience, adult learning for self-development, race and culture in adult learning, technology and distance learning, learning in the workplace, adult education for community action and development, and much more. Much more than a catalogue of theory and historical facts, this handbook strongly reflects the values of adult educators and instructors who are dedicated to promoting social and educational opportunity for learners and to sustaining fair and ethical practices.

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This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to learn is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks in the first place, if it had been meant to be read, then it would have been a novel, not a play. Along with that the teach had us students read the play aloud (on person for every character for a couple pages). None folks had see the play before. None of us wanted to read it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared to be they weren't paying attention. This compounded to create me more or less hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. Plus it really can fuck up your GPA. 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