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Planning and Teaching Creatively Within a Required Curriculum for Adult Learners
This volume in TESOL s Language Curriculum Development Series presents the stories of teachers, curriculum developers, and administrators from all over the world who seek to understand adult learners needs and respond to them in creative, realistic, and effective ways. The contributors to this volume teach adult English language learners, and all have negotiated changes to the curriculum they were required to teach. The changes occurred in very different teaching contexts around the world and interacted in various ways with local factors. Despite these differences, the teachers shared a common goal: to sustain a viable, effective curriculum that reflected their values, beliefs, and ideals. This goal led th… More >>
Planning and Teaching Creatively Within a Required Curriculum for Adult Learners
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The Annual Review of Adult Learning and Literacy
A Project of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy and World Education This essential resource presents the major issues, latest research, and best practices in the field of adult learning and literacy. It is for policymakers, scholars, and practitioners dedicated to improving the quality of adult basic education (ABE), adult English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), and adult secondary education (ASE) programs. Each annual review will feature articles on the year’s most critical topics; annotated reviews of the best books and journal articles; and timely updates on evolving policy and research. Written by diverse experts in the field, the articles in this first volume exa… More >>
The Annual Review of Adult Learning and Literacy
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New Beginnings: A Guide for Adult Learners
For first-year/entry-level Learning Skills, Learning Strategies, and Study Skills courses. Specifically addressing adults by relating to and drawing upon their life experiences, this friendly, accessible, and supportive guide to achieving college success helps users assess their own strengths as a learner, better manage their time, hone good study skills, and write effective college papers…. More >>
New Beginnings: A Guide for Adult Learners
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Reaching Out Across the Border: Canadian Perspectives in Adult Education: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, No. 124
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. Specifically, the authors have addressed the uniqueness of Canada?s emphasis on linking health and adult literacy; the use of video and dialogue to promote adult and literacy education in the North; the historical adult education initiatives such as Frontier College and the Antigonish movement; the special language and cultural issues that define Quebec?s role of adult educat… More >>
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Meeting the Special Needs of Adult Students: New Directions for Student Services
In this volume, we examine the ways student services professionals in institutions of higher education can best meet the needs of adult learners. Most of the discussion here is situated in four-year colleges and universities, although we recognize that community colleges play a large role in the higher education of adults. However, we made the decision to focus on four-year and post-graduate institutions because we believe that these institutions often are focused on traditional-aged students despite growing adult enrollments, and are most in need of guidance about how to serve this ever-growing population. Students in higher education often are defined as “adult learners” or “non-traditional students” i… More >>
Meeting the Special Needs of Adult Students: New Directions for Student Services
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