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Teaching Adults

4th Edition
0335240364 · 9780335240364
The current edition of Teaching Adults, 3e provides an overview of teaching adults in a range of different contexts. In doing so, the author aims to cover the key principles that he believes teachers of adults will encounter and may find useful to kn… Read More
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Before You Start

Teaching adults today: The context
A contract to learn
Perceptions of adult education
Adult students
The nature of Learning
From learning to teaching

Pause for thought

Aims, goals and objectives
The adult learning group
Roles and the teacher
Teaching: Contents and methods

Pause for more thought

Blocks to learning
Evaluation
Participation

Conclusion
Bibliography

The current edition of Teaching Adults, 3e provides an overview of teaching adults in a range of different contexts. In doing so, the author aims to cover the key principles that he believes teachers of adults will encounter and may find useful to know.

The new edition will retain the strengths of the current edition:

• Engaging writing style
• Clear links between theory and practice
• Accessible nature
• Comprehensive overview of teaching

The new edition will also feature the following:

• Up to date further reading and references
• The authors plan to strengthen the CPD coverage in the new edition

The new edition aims to retain the overall theme of what is distinctive about adult education.