Adult Education, Continuous Learning

What does ‘professionalism’ mean for teachers and trainers in further education colleges or adult education centres? Over the last twenty years, id...

Originally published in 1987, this book focuses on the areas of labour and employment education, the environment and ecological education, peacemak...

Published in 1983. The concept of education has generally been assumed to relate to childhood and it is only with more recent developments in the f...

Originally published in 1981 this volume provides a detailed analysis of the factors - strategic, pedagogic, operational, organisational and financ...

This book is a culmination of many educational and business practices to accelerate and distribute learning throughout the organization. You will f...

First published in 1962, this book comprises lectures given in November 1961 to what was then the University College of North Staffordshire. It dea...

This book is an expansion and major updating of the highly successful Theories of Learning for the Workplace, first published in 2011. It offers fa...

This book looks at the development of vocational education and training in China and how it is crucial to human resource development and improving ...

This book explores issues related to people, policy, and places of teaching and learning resulting from the trend towards dual and multi-mode provi...

Much of higher education was originally designed to meet the needs of full time 18-22 year-old students who enter directly from high school. Howev...

Weaving outwards from a centripetal force of biographical stances, this book presents the collective perspectives of literacy researchers from Brun...

Originally published in 1990 this supplement to No. 34 (1990) of the journal Adult Education, discusses the relationship between adult education a...

Informal Learning and Literacy among Maasai Women highlights the importance and role of informal education in the emancipation and development of M...

This book provides core knowledge and guidance for successful teaching in Business, Economics and Enterprise Education, and is based on the most up...

This book provides core knowledge and guidance for successful teaching in Business, Economics and Enterprise Education, and is based on the most up...

In recent years, economic and demographic changes have brought into question the adequacy of initial education programmes for continuous employment...

Originally published in 1987, this book focuses on the areas of labour and employment education, the environment and ecological education, peacemak...

Originally published in 1985. This book explores issues around education for women and uses the British experience as an example of what adult educ...

What happens when teachers are removed from the equation, when we learn by ourselves or with peers?Increasingly rapid change is part of our world t...

Originally published in 1982 this volume provides nine case studies of particular distance teaching universities in Canada, China, Cost Rica, Germa...

Originally published in 1985 this book is a critique and comparison of the nature, structure and provision of university adult education in England...

Since independence in 1957, Malaysia has become a globally-recognised industrial trading partner. With a 60% Muslim population, it also enjoys the ...

Originally published in 1987 and now with an updated preface, this book distils and reflects upon major issues confronting adult educators worldwid...

Originally published in 1988, this book provides perspective on conceptualisations of adult education in the late 20th century, the range of provid...

The college sector is facing a growing number of new challenges caused by technological change, globalisation and the growth of mass higher educati...

Originally published in 1982 this volume provides nine case studies of particular distance teaching universities in Canada, China, Cost Rica, Germa...

Originally published in 1991 this book is a comparative study of systems of preparing adult educators in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Fra...

Originally published in 1980 this book examines why adult education historically failed to attract working class students and whether experiences i...

This title was first published in 2000:  This collection of papers examines the development of education for older adults against the background of...

Originally published in 1979, this book reports on a 3 year action research programme (The New Communities Project) which aimed in increase working...

Originally published in 1987, at a time of high unemployment, this book provides a critical analysis of the role played by education in solving une...

Originally published in 1982, this book discusses the role of adult education in social and community action. In particular it presents a critical ...

Partnering with Online Program Managers for Distance Education offers fresh insights into the practice, implications, and outcomes of partnerships ...

Developing Effective 16-19 Teaching Skills aims to enhance the competence of student- teachers in secondary schools and FE college as they confront...

Originally published in 1991, this book gives international coverage of opportunities in youth development and education from a unique comparative ...

Ten Steps to Complex Learning presents a path from an educational problem to a solution in a way that students, design practitioners, and researche...

Partnering with Online Program Managers for Distance Education offers fresh insights into the practice, implications, and outcomes of partnerships ...

This book, first published in 1965, gives a thumb-nail sketch of the Working Men’s College during two periods of total war. It describes from conte...

Designed to mentor aspiring and current faculty, Becoming a Successful Community College Professor analyzes the ways in which the current instituti...

This book is an authoritative text that explores best classroom practices for engaging adult learners in beginner-level foreign language courses. B...

Ten Steps to Complex Learning presents a path from an educational problem to a solution in a way that students, design practitioners, and researche...

Reimagining Adult Education as World Building offers a new way of thinking about adult education by re-envisaging how adult education works. It exp...

Designed to mentor aspiring and current faculty, Becoming a Successful Community College Professor analyzes the ways in which the current instituti...

Exploring Social Justice in Practice in Education focuses on the tensions and challenges to issues of fairness and social and cognitive justice in ...

COVID-19 has exposed and exacerbated entrenched inequities spawned by the historical and structural reality of bigotry, prejudice, discrimination, ...

This book analyzes the deep historical and theoretical roots of self-directed learning models in order to put forward a new conceptual understandin...

Reimagining Adult Education as World Building offers a new way of thinking about adult education by re-envisaging how adult education works. It exp...