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This bestselling book will help anyone who is engaged in teaching adults. Whether you are working with groups or individuals, in a formal or informal setting, face-to-face or via distance learning channels, it will help you to develop a relationship with your student learners while increasing your understanding of yourself as a teacher.

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Full title :EBOOK.

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Publication Date:©2010.
Edition:4th ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):McGraw-Hill Education
Place of Publication:Berkshire
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (362 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780335240364, 0335240364
oclc:on1371449118
LC Classification:LC5215 -- .R64 2010eb
Dewey Decimal:374.13;374/.13

Front cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Before You Start -- 1 Teaching Adults Today -- the Context -- From certainty to uncertainty -- From deficit to diversity and back again -- From (adult) education to (lifelong) learning -- Exploring the context of your teaching -- Three main parties -- Further reading -- Appendix: Taxonomy -- 2 A Contract to Learn -- Adult participation is voluntary and purposeful -- A contract to learn -- Making and interpreting the contract -- Writing a contract of learning -- Further reading -- 3 Perceptions of Adult Education -- The search for understanding: adult education -- Adult -- Education -- Adult education -- Further reading -- 4 Adult Students -- Student profi les -- Lifespan studies -- General characteristics of adult student learners -- Implications for the teacher of adults -- Further reading -- 5 The Nature of Learning -- Learning and change -- Learner-based theories -- Context-based theories -- Knowledge-based theories -- Process-based theories -- Diversity of ways of learning -- Further reading -- 6 From Learning to Teaching -- Learning and life -- Learning episodes -- Two different kinds of…