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Handbook of adult and continuing education

Author: Arthur L Wilson; Elisabeth Hayes; American Association for Adult and Continuing Education.
Publisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, ©2000.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : New edView all editions and formats
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This is the eighth comprehensive handbook that has been produced by the national organizations for Adult Education, all of which are now grouped together as the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education. The new edition contains 42 chapters by specialists, the topics of which reflect the diversity that is now true of the field. Topics include the role of critical reflection in professional practice,  Read more...
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Handbook of adult and continuing education.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, ©2000
(OCoLC)606510511
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Arthur L Wilson; Elisabeth Hayes; American Association for Adult and Continuing Education.
ISBN: 0787949981 9780787949983 9780470907481 0470907487
OCLC Number: 43945222
Notes: "A publication of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education."
Description: xxvi, 735 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Contents: A Selective History of the Adult Education Handbooks / A.L. Wilson, E.R. Hayes --
On Thought and Action in Adult and Continuing Education / A.L. Wilson, E.R. Hayes --
The Concept of Critically Reflective Practice / Stephen D. Brookfield --
The Profession's Common Concerns --
Linking the Individual Learner to the Context of Adult Learning / Rosemary Caffarella, Sharan B. Merriam --
Learning from Experience in Adult Education / Nod Miller --
Adult Learning for Self-Development and Change / Mark Tennant --
Moving Beyond a Unitary Self: A Reflective Dialogue / M. Carolyn Clark, John M. Dirkx --
Discourses and Cultures of Teaching / Daniel D. Pratt, Tom Nesbit --
Different Perspectives on Teaching for Critical Consciousness / Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Mary Stone Hanley, Edward W. Taylor --
The Invisible Politics of Race in Adult Education / Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Ronald M. Cervero --
Cultures of Transformation / Ann K. Brooks --
Planning Educational Programs / Thomas J. Sork --
From Functionalism to Postmodernism in Adult Education Leadership / Joe F. Donaldson, Paul Jay Edelson --
Adult Education and Democracy: Reclaiming Our Voice through Social Policy / B. Allan Quigley --
Adult Learning and Technology / Carol E. Kasworm, Carroll A. Londoner --
The Profession in Practice --
Adult Literacy / Eunice N. Askov --
Adult Basic Education and the Crisis of Accountability / Barbara Sparks, Elizabeth A. Peterson --
Moving Beyond Performance Paradigms in Human Resource Development / Laura L. Bierema.
Responsibility: Arthur L. Wilson, Elisabeth R. Hayes, editors.
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