Adult Learning articles from September 2000

Adult Learning archives from September 2000

A potpourri of approaches to Adult Learning. (President's Podium).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 22, 2000... If someone were to hold my fingers to the fire and ask for one characteristic that defines the teaching of adults, I would have to say that it is the need for the adult educator to have a variety of ways to teach the same material. We all...

Facilitating the learning of adults.
September 22, 2000... The articles in this issue of Adult Learning address varied ways of facilitating adult learning or administering programs. They are designed for different settings and purposes, but all discuss facilitating the learning of adults. Some focus on...

Student-centered teaching: making it work.
September 22, 2000... I recently taught a new course at a two-year technical school. I knew from my investigation of the program that learners were typically exposed to authority approaches to learning. At the first session, I asked learners to complete an...

Simulated field trips: facilitating Adult Learning in and out of the classroom.
September 22, 2000... The term "field trip" traditionally evokes an image of children escaping boring classrooms and rote exercises. There is nothing wrong with this typical pedagogical memory. A graduate class in adult education, however, recently experienced a...

Learning as creativity: implications for adult learners.
September 22, 2000... Carl Rogers, in Freedom to Learn (1969), describes an educational approach and philosophy in which the learner becomes "the architect of himself." With this metaphor for adult learning as the design and building of oneself and the creative...

Learning stories of our own.(autobiographical projects)
September 22, 2000... Telling one's life story can be a powerful and transformative learning experience. Every adult learner has the right to tell the story of their life--or significant parts of it. And sometimes the only permission they need is to be asked. ...

Volunteer voices: a model for the professional development of volunteer teachers.
September 22, 2000... The term volunteer, once widely associated with religious do-gooders, no longer characterizes the institution. Today volunteerism covers a much broader spectrum of activities than when the Volunteers of America (1896), for example, acted as...

University-based welfare to work project: lessons learned.(Project Learn at University of Alabama at Birmingham)
September 22, 2000... Introduction The passage of Public Law 104-193, "The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act" (Congressional Record, July 30, 1996) provides incentive to employers to hire individuals from the welfare rolls. Well...

Five basic principles for effectively managing the classroom.
September 22, 2000... Introduction Valuable lessons about good teaching often come from spontaneous experiences in the classroom. According to Eble (1988), good teachers are knowledgeable, organized, and possess certain personal qualities and attitudes...

What is the state of adult education research today? (Directions For Research).
September 22, 2000... Adult Education is more integrated into the general educational framework than ever before. Issues related to workplace learning, adult and family learning, continuing professional education, and international development are almost constantly...

Building intercultural understanding: the passenger in row 22. (Personal Reflections).
September 22, 2000... The captain announced that we were number one for takeoff and asked the flight attendants to take their seats. While walking to the rear of the aircraft, an attendant stopped and spoke quietly with the passenger seated three rows in front of...

The making of an adult educator: moving beyond empathy. (Personal Reflections).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... I had been hired to teach a course in English Grammar at one of the local community colleges in my neighborhood. This course was the prerequisite for entry into the multi-streamed Office Administration program. And it was this Program that held...

Am I Teaching Well? Self-Evaluation Strategies for Effective Teachers.
September 22, 2000... by Vesna Nikolic and Hanna Cabaj. Toronto: Pippin Publishing Corporation, 2000. ISBN 0-88751-087-6. Paperbound, 64 pages. The primary audience for Am I Teaching Well? is the "classroom practitioner hard at work `in the trenches,' with a...

Too Scared to Learn: Women, Violence, and Education.
September 22, 2000... by Jenny Horsman. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000. ISBN 0-8058-3659-4. Paperbound, 335 pages. Violence permeates our lives through the daily newspaper, television, movies, and even comic strips. I have often shut out this...

Collaborative Program Planning: Principles, Practices, and Strategies.
September 22, 2000... by Joe F. Donaldson and Charles E. Kozoll. Malabar, FL: Krieger, 1999. Hardbound, 155 pages. The strongest elements of Donaldson's and Kozoll's approach are hidden from the hurried seeker who scans only the table of contents and the index....

Understanding and Managing Learning Disabilities in Adults.
September 22, 2000... by Dale R. Jordan. Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 2000. ISBN 1-57524-108-0. Hardbound, 137 pages. This small book could have been a weighty tome, given the author's accomplishments over four decades. Instead, it's an inviting...