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Informal education, childhood and youth : geographies, histories, practices
This collection of original chapters brings together cutting-edge research on informal education - that is, learning practices that emphasise dialogue and learning through everyday life. For the first time, it highlights the way in which geography matters to informal education practices.
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Teaching in further education
This realistic, relevant and accessible book explores the teacher's role and what makes for effective learning and teaching in the further education sector through means of a fictional approach. It provides a series of linked case study chapters, each set in the same fictional institution and each involving characters, with a range of pertinent roles, who appear and re-appear as their overall story arcs develop. The chapter aims are clearly stated and each narrative is followed by an analysis of key points through challenging critical thinking activities.
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LEARNING WITH ADULTS
\"This is an excellent book that is useful for understanding educating adults. A range of themes is considered within a lively set of sections that are thought provoking and engaging. Readers will find the sections accessible and invaluable if they need to demonstrate awareness of current thought about educating adults.\" -- in: Teachers College Record, May 2014.
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Lifelong learning, the arts and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university
Lifelong learning, the arts, and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university maps the work of adult educators, teachers, researchers and graduate students from North America, Europe and Africa who use the arts in their university classroom teaching, their research and in service. It is written specifically for graduate students, and educators working in higher education, communities, schools, and practitioners who want to learn how to better integrate the arts in their practice to critically and creativity communicate, teach, make meaning, uncover, and involve. The book contextualises the place and role of the arts in society, adult education, higher education and knowledge creation, outlines current arts-based theories and methodologies and provides examples of visual and performing arts practices to critically and creatively see, explore, represent, learn and discover the potential of the human aesthetic dimension in higher education teaching and research.
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Mapping the Field of Adult and Continuing Education
Co-published with The field of Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) has long been influential beyond its already porous borders and continues to be a source of important ideas, inspiration, and innovative practices for those in disciplines such as educational administration, social work, nursing, and counseling. Recognizing this, the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education commissioned the editors to create this compendium, which provides an invaluable resource to readers already established in the field, those entering the field, and to myriad neighbors of the field as well.This four-volume compendium (also available as a combined e-book) brings together a host of national and international contributors to map the field of ACE in a series of brief articles addressing key theories and practices across its many domains and settings. These are arranged in four volumes, available either individually or as a set:
Volume One: Adult Learners
Volume Two: Teaching and Learning
Volume Three: Leadership and Administration
Volume Four: Inquiry and Influences
The volume on Adult Learners will include articles addressing topics such as adult development, diversity, learning abilities, the influence of personality on learning, and the role of experience in adult learning. By far the largest segment of learners in society, and currently the largest segment of college students as well, a better understanding of the adult learner is vital for educators of all kinds.Volume two addresses Teaching and Learning topics ranging from methods and roles to programs and materials. Encompassing formal and informal learning, as well as the variety of focus and setting, from cultural to occupational, this volume explores the wide range of theory and practice in ACE.Issues of Leadership and Administration such as planning and resource allocation, organizational change and culture, and the value of a shared vision for all stakeholders are addressed in the third volume. From practical
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Ecologizing Education
Ecologizing Education explores
how we can reenvision education to meet the demands of an unjust
and rapidly changing world. Going beyond \"green\" schooling
programs that aim only to shape behavior, Sean Blenkinsop and
Estella Kuchta advance a pedagogical approach that seeks to
instills eco-conscious and socially just change at the cultural
level. Ecologizing education, as this approach is called, involves
identifying and working to overcome anti-ecological features of
contemporary education. This approach, called ecologizing
education, aims to develop a classroom culture in sync with the
more-than-human world where diversity and interdependency are
intrinsic.
Blenkinsop and Kuchta illustrate this educational paradigm shift
through the real-world stories of two public elementary schools
located in British Columbia. They show that this approach to
learning starts with recognizing the environmental and social
injustices that pervade our industrialized societies. By
documenting how ecologizing education helps children create new
relationships with the natural world and move toward mutual
healing, Blenkinsop and Kuchta offer a roadmap for what may be the
most potent chance we have at meaningful change in the face of
myriad climate crises.
Timely, practical, and ultimately inspirational, Ecologizing
Education is vital reading for any parent, caregiver,
environmentalist, or educator looking for wholistic education that
places nature and the environment front and center.
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