Adult Learning: Designing and Implementing Learning Events - A Dialogic Approach - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0627025064 ISBN 13: 9780627025068

Synopsis

This title offers practical guidelines, underpinned by sound scholarship, for the design and implementation of learning events. The author illiminates this process, which she view as a learning-centred and dialogic endeavour, by drawing on perennial and cutting-edge theory as well as personal experience. She guides the reader in exploring the theory on adult learners and their needs, the learning process and strategies educators can use for guiding and facilitating learning, culminating in a discussion of a specific strategy for designing and implementing dialogic learning events - The Seven Steps of Planning. The author explains in practical terms how this strategy puts dialofic teaching into action, using learningtasks to structure dialogue with learners.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0627025064
• ISBN 13: 9780627025068
• Binding: Paperback