White Privilege and Racism

Ace, Adult and Continuing Education (Ace)

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 125
• White privilege is viewed by many as a birthright and is in essence an existentialist norm that is based upon the power and privilege of pigmentation.... Lees meer

Narrative Perspectives on Adult Education

Ace, Adult and Continuing Education (Ace)

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 126
• This volume presents a variety of perspectives on the role of narrative in adult learning and explores how those perspectives can be translated into p... Lees meer

Arts and Societal Learning: Transforming Communities Socially, Politically, and Culturally

Ace

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 116
• The literature on adult education reflects a growing recognition of the role that the arts can play in facilitating adult and societal learning. This ... Lees meer

Meeting the Transitional Needs of Young Adult Learners

Ace

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 143
• This is the first New Directions volume related to young adult learners since 1984. Then, as now, young adults are an important segment of the adult p... Lees meer

Learning Transfer in Adult Education

Ace

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 134
• Learning transfer is the use of skills and knowledge acquired in one situation or setting in a different environment. It is, fundamentally, the point ... Lees meer

HIV / AIDS Education for Adults

Ace, Egan

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 105
• Contributors from the United States, Canada, and Australia, working in university-based and community-based environments and for divergent communities... Lees meer

Possible Selves and Adult Learning: Perspectives and Potential

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 114
• This issue introduces practitioners, scholars and students to the construct of possible selves and its potential applications in the field of adult ed... Lees meer

Bringing Community to the Adult ESL Classroom

Ace

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 121
• Using the concept of community building as a framework, this volume summarizes and updates readers on the state of adult English as a second language ... Lees meer

Adult Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom

Adult and Continuing Education (ACE)

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 131
• Delve into the nature and mystery of wisdom in adult education, and what it might mean for the practice of adult education in the complexity of changi... Lees meer

Meeting Adult Learner Needs Through the Nontraditional Doctoral Degree

Ace

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 129
• Topics covered in this work include the emergence of the nontraditional doctorate, faculty concerns related to distance learning within nontraditional... Lees meer

Contemporary Viewpoints on Teaching Adults Effectively

Jovita M Ross-Gordon, Ace, Ross-Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 93
• This issue brings together several authors who have contributed to the recent literature on effective teaching of adults. Rather than promoting a sing... Lees meer

Understanding and Negotiating the Political Landscape of Adult Education

Ace, Hansman, Sissel

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 91
• Provides key insights into the politics and policy issues in adult education today. Offering effective strategies for reflection and action, chapters ... Lees meer

Class Concerns: Adult Education and Social Class

Ace, Nesbit

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 106
• This volume brings together leading progressive adult educators to explore how class affects different arenas of adult education practice and discours... Lees meer

Authenticity in Teaching

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 111
• Becoming an authentic teacher appears to be a developmental process that relies on experience, maturity, self-exploration, and reflection. It is the p... Lees meer

Environmental Adult Education: Ecological Learning, Theory, and Practice for Socioenvironmental Change

Ace, Clover, Hill

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 99
• Environmental adult education brings an ecological perspective to studies of adult learning by concretizing the interconnections between people's expe... Lees meer

Developing and Delivering Adult Degree Programs

Ace, Jerman, Pappas

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 103
• This issue explores the growing field of adult degree programs and considers the theoretical underpinnings of such programs and hands-on issues as cur... Lees meer

Teaching Strategies in the Online Environment

Ace

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 113
• One of the challenges for adult educators who teach online is identifying teaching strategies that fit the needs of learners content and the environme... Lees meer

Promoting Critical Practice in Adult Education

Ace, Sandlin

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 102
• Offering theoretical and practical knowledge to help critical adult educators in their attempts to enact critical pedagogy in their own classroom, thi... Lees meer

The Struggle for Democracy in Adult Education

Ace, Adult and Continuing Education (Ace)

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 128
• Adult education in the United States has its roots in democracy. The editors and contributors of this volume build on that historical relationship and... Lees meer

Adult Education in the Rural Context: People, Place, and Change

Ace

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 117
• Although there has recently been a relative abundance of material produced on adult education in rural areas outside the United States, little work ha... Lees meer

Adult Education in Libraries, Museums, Parks, and Zoos

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 127
• On any given week millions of adults around the world can be found gathering in libraries, parks, zoos, arboretums, and museums in person or online. T... Lees meer

Expanding the Boundaries of Adult Religious Education: Strategies, Techniques, and Partnerships for the New Millenium

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education
• The field of adult religious education is rich with opportunities for study and service. This sourcebook showcases adult religious education as an imp... Lees meer

Adult Civic Engagement in Adult Learning

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 135
• Take an in-depth look at adult learning and education for citizenship and civic engagement. This issue presents the foundational connections between t... Lees meer

Social Capital and Women's Support Systems

Ace, Adult and Continuing Education (Ace)

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education | nr. 122
• The concept of social capital goes back to the early twentieth century. Although it has sociological underpinnings, it has been primarily applied in t... Lees meer