Methods for Facilitating Adult Learning: Strategies for Enhancing Instruction and Instructor Effectiveness - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1642674974 ISBN 13: 9781642674972

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1642674974
• ISBN 13: 9781642674972
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 404
• Editor: Coryell Joellen E., Baumgartner Lisa M., Bohonos Jeremy W.