Adult Learning articles from January 2001

Adult Learning archives from January 2001

Continuing professional education in today's changing world.
January 1, 2001... In his classic work, The Inquiring Mind, Cyril O. Houle noted the "value of widespread lifelong learning in professional and vocational accomplishment. The need to maintain and enhance occupational skills has been brought home forcefully by the...

Improving practice through action research.
January 1, 2001... Action research is fulfilling, frustrating, messy, confusing, and exciting--just like real life in fact." Nod Miller Action research is a powerful tool for continuing professional education. It assumes that people learn best when they...

Creating continuing professional online learning communities.
January 1, 2001... With continuing professional education increasingly offered through distance and distributed learning technologies, adult educators need to creatively interweave online and traditional face-to-face delivery strategies to craft successful...

Mentoring as continuing professional education.
January 1, 2001... When we think of continuing professional education (CPE) programs we have attended during our careers, we may remember sitting for what seemed like boundless hours in workshops as "experts" in our field endlessly droned on about how to better...

Peer-based learning: a new-old alternative to professional development.
January 1, 2001... Rabbi Joshua ben Perachya said: Get yourself a teacher; acquire a friend to study with you." This ancient piece of wisdom comes from Pirket Avot 1:6, the Hebrew Book of Our Fathers, written thousands of years ago as a compilation of the best...

Diversity and intercultural communication in continuing professional education.
January 1, 2001... A key mandate for continuing professional educators is the updating of professionals in the workplace, making it possible for the latter group to improve their day-to-day practice. This mandate is critical as workplaces throughout the world...

Continuing professional education in the multilingual and multicultural environment of the 21st century.
January 1, 2001... Continuing education is rarely an established system. It is much more ephemeral in nature than initial education, changing with a variety of social pressures and emerging and disappearing in different parts of the world as the demands of the...

Understanding professionals' reasons for participating in continuing professional education.
January 1, 2001... The demand for continuing professional education (CPE) programs has dramatically increased during the past decade. According to various reports, U.S. employers increased employee education spending by 24 to 32 percent in the past decade. Many...

Don't call it homework! Strengthening the link between workshop and work.
January 1, 2001... Many continuing professional education activities are organized as single-event workshops and seminars, an approach to education that is frequently criticized because of its limited relevance to the workplace. We also know that to make workshop...

Ethics and continuing professional education: today's challenges, tomorrow's solutions.
January 1, 2001... Today more than ever continuing professional education (CPE) is being called upon to meet the demands of a changing workplace. Whether we are providing CPE for nurses or purchasing agents, literacy teachers or engineers, pilots or computer...

Help create our future. (Commentary).(continuing education)
January 1, 2001... This is an invitation. I invite you to help create a shared vision of desirable future directions for the broad field of adult and continuing education. If you respond to this invitation, I offer you at least three potential benefits. One...

New York City adult education remembers Sept. 11. (Personal Reflections).
January 1, 2001... As the consequences of the terrorists' attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 continue to sink in, we realize that no one has been left untouched. Few people outside New York City may realize, however, how these events have been felt by the adult education...

Prospects and Trends in Adult Education: A Selection of Contemporary Writing on Project Work.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... edited by Uwe Gartenschlaeger and Heribert Hinzen. Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany: The Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (Institut fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit des Deutschen...

Assessing Adult Learning: A Guide for Practitioners.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... by Joseph J. Moran [Revised edition]. Professional Practices in Adult Education and Human Resource Development Series. Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 2001. ISBN 1-57524-195-1. Hardcover, 187 pages. The 2001 edition of Joseph...

Developing Adult Learners: Strategies for Teachers and Trainers.(Book Review)
January 1, 2001... by Kathleen Taylor, Catherine Marienau, and Morris Fiddler. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000. ISBN 0-7879-4573-0. Hardcover, 391 pages. Is it possible for one text to effectively combine theories of adult development, characteristics of...