Author: Rosemary S. Caffarella
Publisher: Jossey-Ba
Keywords: educators, trainers, staff, developers, guide, practical, programs, adult, learners, planning
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-11-16
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 0787952257
ISBN-13: 9780787952259

The ongoing education and training of adults has become a necessity in many professional areas. Yet the staff who set up and administer these programs often lack skills for the very task that is so critical to the success of their efforts--the planning of the programs themselves. Drawing on the tremendous success of the first edition, Planning Programs for Adult Learners, Second Edition covers the development of adult education programs in clear, specific detail. This popular guide contains information on every area of program planning for adult learners, from understanding the purpose of educ

Authors:Sharan B. Merriam, Rosemary S. Caffarella,
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: higher, adult, education, series, bass, jossey, adulthood, comprehensive, guide, learning
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1998-11-06
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0787910430
ISBN-13: 9780787910433

"An essential volume in adult education."--Choice "Merriam and Caffarella provide an excellent resource whose value will last until the appearance of the third edition."--Continuing Higher Education Review The second edition of Learning in Adulthood integrates the most important contributions to adult learning in the last decade. The result is an updated, comprehensive synthesis of what we now know about adult learning--including the context in which it takes place, who the participants are, what they learn and why, the nature of the learning process itself, major theoretical developments,

Authors:M. Carolyn Clark, Rosemary S. Caffarella,
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: adult, continuing, education, new, amp, issue, ace, single, directions, life, theory, development, ways, thinking, update, course
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2000-02-17
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0787911712
ISBN-13: 9780787911713

Our approach to adult learners and the learning process is shaped by our knowledge of how adults change and develop across the life span. This issue of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education reviews the latest work in adult developmental theory in the biological, psychological, sociocultural, and integrated domains, and explores the implications of this work for adult education. Chapters examine how gAnder, race, and sexual orientation affect our sense of self; explore spiritual development and theories of aging; and offer a way of understanding development in terms of how people u

Authors:Sharan B. Merriam, Rosemary S. Caffarella, Lisa M.
Publisher: Jossey-Ba
Keywords: higher, adult, education, bass, jossey, adulthood, comprehensive, guide, learning
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2006-10-27
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0787975885
ISBN-13: 9780787975883

In this updated landmark book, the authors have gathered the seminal work and most current thinking on adult learning into one volume. Learning in Adulthood addresses a wide range of topics including: Who are adult learners? How do adults learn? Why are adults involved in learning activities? How does the social context shape the learning that adults are engaged in? How does aging affect learning ability?

Authors:Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, M
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: america, volume, north, religion, women, encyclopedia
Published: 2006-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 025334686X
ISBN-13: 9780253346865

Authors:Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, M
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: america, volume, north, religion, women, encyclopedia
Published: 2006-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0253346886
ISBN-13: 9780253346889

Authors:Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, M
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: america, volume, north, religion, women, encyclopedia
Published: 2006-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0253346878
ISBN-13: 9780253346872