Education : Adult & Continuing Education

This book contains over 500 practical suggestions designed to help tutors establish active learning amongst their students. Divided into useful sections the tips cover the gamut of teaching and learning situations and comprise a 'start anywhere', dip-in resource suitable for both the newcomer and the old hand. Intended mainly for the university or college lecturer involved in learner-centred learning, the book offers fresh ideas and food for thought on six broad areas of the job: * Getting your students going * Starting off, and working together * The programme itself - lectures, assignments and feedback * Helping students to learn from resources * Assessment: demonstrating evidence of achievement * Skills for career and life in general This lively and stimulating book will prove valuable to lecturers, tutors, teachers, trainers and staff developers. more...

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By exposing the truth and setting you on the right path, The 75 Biggest Myths about College Admissions gives you the edge you need to avoid wrong turns and wasted time and get a few steps ahead in the application process. more...

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Clodomir Santos de Morais is to organizational and entrepreneurial literacy what his Brazilian confrere, Paulo Freire, is to ordinary literacy. This book introduces for the first time in English the experiences of grassroots development workers who have applied his ideas of the Organization Workshop and capacitation in highly diverse social settings. One of the most exciting aspects of de Morais's methods of working with the most marginalized sectors of society is their relevance not just to Third World countries, but also to Eastern Europe's economies in transition and the most deprived areas of the industrialized countries. This highly distinctive grassroots development approach to empowering socially excluded strata in economic and organizational terms holds out the prospect of becoming a very important factor in the struggle against poverty. more...

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Part of the well-known Staff and Educational Development Series, this practice oriented book brings together leading research and evaluation approaches and supporting case studies from leading educational researchers and innovative teachers more...

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This readable and lively guide is an invaluable handbook for postgraduates and lecturers new to publishing, with direct advice based on up to date research that goes beyond that given in current textbooks. more...

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