TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vella,Jane Kathryn
TI  - Learning to listen, learning to teach: the power of dialogue in educating adults 
SN  - 0787959677
AV  - LC5225.L42 
U1  - 374 
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - San Francisco, CA
PB  - Jossey-Bass
KW  - Adult education
KW  - Adult learning
KW  - Teaching
KW  - Education
KW  - Education, Continuing
KW  - Learning
KW  - Psychology, Educational
KW  - Adult
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -