Methods for Facilitating Adult Learning

Strategies for Enhancing Instruction and Instructor Effectiveness
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-64267-496-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 736 g

This book equips instructors with fresh, practical teaching and training methods to support adult learning in both formal and continuing educational environments.

An extensive, how-to guide, Methods for Facilitating Adult Learning covers adult teaching and learning fundamentals, collaborative teaching methods, methods for facilitating autonomous learning, community-based teaching methods, and technology-enhanced teaching and learning approaches. Readers will emerge with an in-depth understanding of each method, made comprehensive by the inclusion of definitions, philosophical and/or theoretical underpinnings, advantages and limitations, practical guidelines for application, and ample real-world examples.

Ideal for any educator working with adult learners, this book offers a toolbox of approaches designed to enhance reader understanding and practice of adult instruction.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coryell, Joellen E.

Baumgartner, Lisa M.

Bohonos, Jeremy W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Learning Theory and Methods; Part I Fundamentals of Adult Teaching and Learning 2. Interactive Lecture: Engaging Active Learning/Interactive Teaching and Learning with Lecture; 3. Using an African Diasporic Feminist Approach to Teach for Change; 4. Teaching Students to Think Critically in the Age of TikTok, Tweets, and Tenacious Titillation; 5. Teaching Perspectives: A Philosophical Foundation for Methods; Part II Collaborative Methods in Teaching and Learning 6. Dialogue and Discussion: Applying bell hooks to Diverse Education Contexts; 7. Case Studies/Case Stories; 8. Collaborative Learning and Group Work; 9. Mentoring to Facilitate Adult Learning; 10. Learning from Experience Through Role Play; Part III Methods for Facilitating Autonomous Learning 11. Learning Contracts, Individualized Learning Agreements, and Personal Development Plans: Nine Components and Personal Narratives; 12. Teaching and Learning with Portfolios; 13. Reflexive Learning and Reflexive Practice; Part IV Community-Based Teaching and Learning Methods 14. Community-based Service-Learning as Engaged Andragogy; 15. Multiple Ways of Knowing: Facilitating Arts-based and Embodied Learning in Adult Education; 16. Field-based Experiences and C*Sci Training for Adults; 17. Strategies for Working with ESL Learners in Adult Education Classrooms; Part V Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning Methods 18. Gamification of Learning for Adult Learners; 19. Flipped Classrooms for the Adult Learner; 20. Closed and Open Online Discussion Forums; 21. Adopting Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Adult Learning Contexts; 22. Simulation-based Learning in Adult Education

Über Autor(innen)

Joellen E. Coryell is Associate Dean and Professor of Adult, Professional, and Community Education at Texas State University, USA.

Lisa M. Baumgartner is Professor of Adult, Professional, and Community Education at Texas State University, USA.

Jeremy W. Bohonos is Assistant Professor of Adult, Professional, and Community Education at Texas State University, USA.