Brings together seminal work and thinking on adult learning, providing a comprehensive overview and synthesis of what we know about adult learning.

Explores the learning and teaching of second language reading. This title brings together a range of analyses of adult foreign language reading. It provides important research findings that assist foreign language readers and those who support their efforts.

Looks at what is distinctive about adult learning and teaching. This book discusses what it is that makes helping adults to learn different from teaching younger students. It is suitable for teachers and programme organisers, students on adult education courses, and policy makers and administrators.

A guide on how to teach adults. It attempts to unravel the myths of teaching adults, while explaining why it is both a rewarding and a complex task. It explains how to deal with a group of mixed ability; how to manage the conflicts that may arise in a group; and, different teaching methods.

Explores the different ways in which the various social practices in which people participate becomes signed as learning, how and why that occurs and with what consequences. This book discusses the linguistic turn in social theory to draw upon semiotics and post-structuralism through which to explore the significance of lifelong learning.

Attempts to understand the poorly understood learning sector by both talking to students and front-line staff and by interviewing the officials responsible for managing post-compulsory education and lifelong learning. It conclude that there are serious failings and suggest principles and features of a more equitable and effective learning system.

Explores lifelong learning in the context of development as it is used for low and middle income countries, particularly with reference to Africa and South Asia. This monograph includes references to African Renaissance texts on African philosophies and education traditions, and feminist theories on lifelong learning.

Provides comprehensive coverage of words essential for adult jobs, relationships and lifestyles.

Helps you master the basic competencies necessary to understand and evaluate the research of others. This work features common research problems in a step-by-step manner through examples that clarify complex concepts supported by end-of-chapter exercises. It is suitable for those planning to conduct research or interpret the research of others.

This text explores how the notion of a learning society has developed over recent years: the changes that have given rise to the requirement for flexibility, and the changed discourses and practices that have emerged in the education and training of adults.

A collection of readings capturing the depth and diversity of the learning literature of the past decade. Reviewing seminal work on personal and corporate learning, all contributors look forward with their own mix of role-models and recommendations to guide organizational learning in the future.

Written by adult educator Jane Vella, this book presents her twelve principles of dialogue education along with a fresh theoretical perspective gleaned from the discipline of quantum physics.

Useful for both new and continuing teachers, this book examines post-compulsory education (PCE) from Adult and Further Education through to training in private and public industry and commerce. It explores key areas in PCE through topical discussion, practical exercises, theory, reading, analysis, information, and examples of student work.

Naomi Sargant (1933 -2006) was a television executive, educator, consultant and writer. This volume covers her writing on the rights of women to educational opportunity and recognition; and the challenges posed by the digital divide.

Explores the fundamental aspects of teaching and learning, drawing on the theories and developments. This book covers topics such as communication; learning theories; planning and preparing; assessment for learning; and, questioning and explaining.

People continually learn through their participation with others in everyday activities. This title gathers together the scholarly materials directly emanating from a workshop held in August 2005, when a multidisciplinary group of scholars met at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology to discuss 'learning in communities'.