Learning to listen, learning to teach :
Vella, Jane Kathryn, 1931-
Learning to listen, learning to teach : the power of dialogue in educating adults / Jane Vella - Revised edition - xxiii, 263 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index
Part one: a process that works and why. Twelve principles for effective adult learning -- Quantum thinking and dialogue education -- How the principles inform course design: two examples -- Part two: the principles in practice: across cultures and around the world. Learning needs and resources assessment: taking the first step in dialogue -- Safety: creating a safe environment for learning -- Sound relationships: using the power of friendship -- Sequence and reinforcement: supporting their learning -- Praxis: turning practice into action and reflection -- Learners as decision makers: harnessing the power of self through respect -- Learning with ideas, feelings, and actions: using the whole person -- Immediacy: teaching what is really useful to learners -- Assuming new roles for dialogue: embracing the death of the professor -- Teamwork: celebrating learning together -- Engagement: learning actively -- Accountability: knowing how they know they know -- Part three: becoming an effective teacher of adults. Reviewing the twelve principles and quantum thinking -- How do you know you know? Supposing and proposing -- Appendix: Ways of doing needs assessment
In this updated version of her landmark book, celebrated adult educator Jane Vella revisits her twelve principles of dialogue education with a new theoretical perspective gleaned from the discipline of quantum physics
0787959677 9780787959678
Adult education
Adult learning
Teaching
Education
Education, Continuing
Learning
Psychology, Educational
Teaching
Adult
LC5225.L42
374
Learning to listen, learning to teach : the power of dialogue in educating adults / Jane Vella - Revised edition - xxiii, 263 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index
Part one: a process that works and why. Twelve principles for effective adult learning -- Quantum thinking and dialogue education -- How the principles inform course design: two examples -- Part two: the principles in practice: across cultures and around the world. Learning needs and resources assessment: taking the first step in dialogue -- Safety: creating a safe environment for learning -- Sound relationships: using the power of friendship -- Sequence and reinforcement: supporting their learning -- Praxis: turning practice into action and reflection -- Learners as decision makers: harnessing the power of self through respect -- Learning with ideas, feelings, and actions: using the whole person -- Immediacy: teaching what is really useful to learners -- Assuming new roles for dialogue: embracing the death of the professor -- Teamwork: celebrating learning together -- Engagement: learning actively -- Accountability: knowing how they know they know -- Part three: becoming an effective teacher of adults. Reviewing the twelve principles and quantum thinking -- How do you know you know? Supposing and proposing -- Appendix: Ways of doing needs assessment
In this updated version of her landmark book, celebrated adult educator Jane Vella revisits her twelve principles of dialogue education with a new theoretical perspective gleaned from the discipline of quantum physics
0787959677 9780787959678
Adult education
Adult learning
Teaching
Education
Education, Continuing
Learning
Psychology, Educational
Teaching
Adult
LC5225.L42
374