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Learning to listen, learning to teach : the power of dialogue in adult education
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"In a distinctly personal and highly entertaining style, Jane Vella offers a practical, proven, universally applicable approach to adult education. From a graduate school in New York to the mountai...
"In a distinctly personal and highly entertaining style, Jane Vella offers a practical, proven, universally applicable approach to adult education. From a graduate school in New York to the mountains of Nepal to the drought-parched fields of Ethiopia, Vella draws on her rich personal experiences as an adult educator to reveal twelve basic principles of adult learning that transcend cultural differences. The principles include seeing the learner as decision maker in the learning process, building relationships for open communication, inviting participation by learners in goal setting through needs assessment, honoring cultural perspectives, and realizing the accountability of the teacher to the learners." "Each of Vella's twelve stories describes a specific problem, analyzes the learners and their perceived needs, details the educational program and process, and examines one particular principle of teaching and learning. Every chapter concludes with a learning challenge, inviting readers to use the principle in some way that is appropriate to their own situation. Vella's stories reveal the courage of individual adult learners under often trying circumstances, and the power of dialogue to enable all to teach and all to learn."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Jane Vella
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- English
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- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [1994]
- ©1994
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- xxi, 202 pages ; 24 cm
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- 9781555426309, 1555426301
- OCLC
- ocm29356971
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword / Malcolm S. Knowles -- Pt. 1. A Proven Approach to Teaching Adults. 1. Twelve Principles for Effective Adult Learning. 2. How the Principles Inform Course Design and Teaching -- Pt. 2. The Principles in Action - Across Cultures and Around the World. 3. Needs Assessment: The First Step in Dialogue. 4. Safety: Creating a Safe Environment for Learning. 5. Sound Relationships: The Power of Friendship and Respect. 6. Sequence and Reinforcement: Knowing Where and How to Begin. 7. Action with Reflection: A Lesson in Leadership. 8. Learners as Subjects of Their Own Learning. 9. Learning with Ideas, Feelings, and Actions. 10. Immediacy: Teaching What Is Really Useful. 11. Assuming New Roles for Dialogue: The Death of the "Professor" 12. Teamwork: How People Learn Together. 13. Engagement: Learning as an Active Process. 14. Accountability: Success Is in the Eyes of the Learner -- Pt. 3. Becoming an Effective Teacher of Adults. 15. Using the Twelve Principles in Your Own Teaching. 16. How Do You Know You Know?