Written for those who are training to teach in further and adult education, this book accommodates the range and diversity of post-16 education with a sequence of activities and case studies. It is valuable for in-service training, pre-service PGCE or Cert Ed and all FE teacher training courses.

An overview of the basic theories of learning. It looks at how these have developed and demonstrates how they can be put into practice. The authors put forward their own theory as well as examining others.

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Product Description: Analyzes current trends and policies likely to affect both teachers and teacher trainers in the UK's post-compulsory educational sector. Includes an Anglo-German comparison of vocational education and transitions in employment. Covers further education under New Labour; National Vocational Qualifi...read more

Product Description: Taking an international perspective, the authors examine the theoretical and practical aspects of lifelong learning. A number of issues and key areas of debate are addressed in different national and international contexts and case studies are provided from countries including Hong Kong...read more

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Product Description: This volume brings together papers from the 1991 Conference on Experiential Learning, and provides a broad illustration of best practice in this fast-developing field. The editors have highlighted the emerging ideas of empowerment, for example as a development of autonomy and control, public recognition of personal learning, a shift of emphasis from teaching to learning, the decoupling of learning and formal education, and the relocation of learning in the workplace, community and personal life...read more

Product Description: Traces the roots of policy in alternative social welfare models to their ideological source and to the origins of adult education theory itself.

Product Description: Book by Griffin, Colin