Product Description: Lawrence and Cranton present a unique research methodology involving fictional characters as research participants. Transformative learning themes are identified through a content analysis of six contemporary novels. The characters from these novels are invited to come to a virtual space, the Butterfly Café where they engage in a series of dialogues on the research themes related to their transformative learning experiences...read more

Product Description: Stories of Transformative Learning is intended to encourage people to explore the potential for transformative learning in their lives, practices, and communities. This book illustrates the transformative learning process through ten stories of individuals from both inside and outside of the classroom...read more

Product Description: An immensely practical work, now in its third edition, Planning Instruction for Adult Learners shows you how to analyze the characteristics of adult learners, formulate realistic goals and objectives, plan the sequence of topics to be taught, select appropriate instructional strategies, and the kinds of materials to be used...read more

Product Description: This volume brings together Canadian scholars and practitioners to articulate a variety of historical, geographical, and political positions on the field of adult education in Canada. The chapter authors examine the country?s interests and discourses and detail Canada?s history, educational initiatives, movements, and linguistic struggles...read more

Product Description: Becoming an authentic teacher appears to be a developmental process that relies on experience, maturity, self-exploration, and reflection. It is the purpose of this volume to explore a variety of ways of thinking about authenticity in teaching, from the perspective of both scholars and practitioners...read more

Perceptive, provocative, and lucid...Patricia Cranton's clear and careful analysis and her down-to-earth examples of transformative learning concepts move my work significantly closer to the practitioner. Highly recommAnded! --Jack Mezirow, professor emeritus of adult education, Teachers College, Columbia University

Product Description: This is a book of definitive advice on how to teach groups of adults. It provides adult educators with a complete guide to their field, encompassing all aspects of learning from underlying educational theory to effective classroom practice...read more

Product Description: Student ratings have long been the primary means of evaluating teaching in higher education, but are they sufficient to meet the increasing demands in public accountability and the changes in learning needs? This volume explores a wide range of alternative approaches to assessing teaching performance and presents methods for documenting and judging teaching that have often been overlooked in the sometimes acrimonious debate about the reliability and validity of student questionnaires...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Teacher development is presented in this guide as a process of coming to know the Self, recognizing the archetype of the Good Teacher, and seeing how this archetype can lead us to feel we are the Bad Teacher. This process is illustrated with case studies of authentic teachers. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: No One Way: Teaching and Learning in Higher Educationa book for all educators who wish to improve the quality of teaching and learning in their institutions. With a theoretical framework based on research on domains of knowledge and psychological type are effective and versatile ideas and strategies for classroom practice for both beginning and experienced university or college teachers...read more

Product Description: Global developments directly or indirectly affect teaching and learning in higher education. In this new era of telecommunication revolution and growing international cooperation, it is time for university and college teachers to talk across national boundaries about teaching...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume offers nine first-hand accounts of transformative learning theory in practice, illuminating the rational, practical, intuitive, and emotional routes adults use to understand and change their values and perspectives in order to learn...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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