Reviews: Mature students
11 reviews found for "Mature students"
- Book Review: Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, Theory and Practice [3rd Edition]
- This is the third edition of a book that was published first in 1983 as Adult and Continuing Education and revised for a second edition in 1995. The central theme is the depiction and analysis of the responses that education has been required to make to social forces
- Book Review: Building self-esteem with adult learners
- Denis Lawrence examines the issue of building self-esteem with adult learners from a number of perspectives including basic underpinning theory, tutor approaches and a six-session self-esteem enhancement programme that tutors can use with individuals or small groups of learners. Although the development of self-esteem is set within the context of adult literacy programmes, tutors working across the post-compulsory sector with adults who lack...
- Book Review: Adult Education at the Crossroads: learning our way out
- Lifelong learning and the concept of the knowledge society have raised the status of adult education and training. However, this new importance is accompanied by threats to its integrity, hence the title, 'Adult Education at the Crossroads'. This book has clear links with many recent texts on lifelong learning, adult education and social change. It could be added to reading lists of several adult education modules. What makes this so different is...
- Book Review: Reconstructing the lifelong learner: Pedagogy and Identity in individual, organisation and social change
- Lifelong learning starts at birth and ends at death. This book focuses on the adult learner, so the title is imprecise. It also features 'pedagogy' meaning 'attending to the training of children'. These highlight pitfalls awaiting writer on adult education. The solution 'andragogy' is not an answer, since this is gendered, 'attending to the training of men'. I propose we simply talk about learning strategies
- Book review : Learning support for mature students
- This is a book review of Learning support for mature students by Elizabeth Hoult, published by Sage in 2006, ISBN 9781412902953. It was reviewed by Sarah Cornelius of the University of Aberdeen on behalf of ESCalate. Early chapters address motivation, ideas of intelligence, how to learn effectively and issues of confidence and personality. Hoult does not shy away from introducing academic concepts and terminology and taking a critical look at...
- Book Review: From Teaching To Mentoring: Principle and Practice, dialogue and life in adult education
- This book draws on case studies from the authors' extensive experience of teaching to explore and illustrate a dialogic process of mentoring adult, non-traditional learners in American Higher Education. They draw extensively on classical Platonic philosophical precepts to structure the framework of the Socratic, dialogic relationship, supplemented by the concepts of life-world and system as defined by Habermas. The case studies would make useful...
- Book Review: Key Concepts in Adult Education and Training 2nd Edition
- For those of us intimately involved in the education and development of educational professionals at all levels engaged in adult education and training, what tools or resources are available to us in enabling our students to develop their own senses of translation competence? An invaluable resource is offered by Malcolm Tight, in his second edition of 'Key Concepts in Adult Education and Training'. This new edition presents sections and chapters...
- Book Review: A Question of Value: achievement and progression in adult learning - a discussion paper
- This is an important discussion paper that will make interesting reading for all those involved in adult education. It also feeds into the wider and enduring debates about the measurement of learning outcomes and the relationship between learning and learning outcomes. The competing interpretations of the concepts of progression, achievement, and outcomes are prevalent in all educational arenas but the debate is especially pertinent with regards...
- Book Review: Learning to Teach Adults: An Introduction
- 'Learning to Teach Adults' has been specified as an introductory guide, suitable for those making a first foray into the world of adult education. Written in a style that is easily accessible and colloquial, this book aims to give sensible advice on how to teach and train adults irrespective of the subject area that is being taught
- Book Review: Adults Learning (4th edition)
- The fourth edition of this book provides well-argued, up-to-date discussion in lively prose on what you need to know about adult learners, learning styles, getting started, and handling small groups, as well as sound advice on teaching methods, such as lectures and demonstrations, role play, discussion and facilitation. New chapters deal with tutoring open learners, coaching and mentoring; and a final chapter provides that now essential section...
- Book Review: Non-Traditional Entrants to Higher Education. 'They talk about people like me'
- This is a fascinating account of a four-year action research project run by the author, Marion Bowl, in collaboration with colleagues and students from Birmingham Reachout - a community based initiative to encourage mature, working class and minority ethnic students to access higher education. Through detailed histories of the students who became involved in the project between 1997 and 2001, Bowl attempts to answer three research questions....