Methods for Facilitating Adult Learning: Strategies for Enhancing Instruction and Instructor Effectiveness

✍ Scribed by Joellen E. Coryell (editor), Lisa M. Baumgartner (editor), Jeremy W. Bohonos (editor)

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2024
Tongue: English
Leaves: 405
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book equips instructors with fresh, practical teaching and training methods to support adult learning in both formal and continuing educational environments.

An extensive, how-to guide, Methods for Facilitating Adult Learning covers adult teaching and learning fundamentals, collaborative teaching methods, methods for facilitating autonomous learning, community-based teaching methods, and technology-enhanced teaching and learning approaches. Readers will emerge with an in-depth understanding of each method, made comprehensive by the inclusion of definitions, philosophical and/or theoretical underpinnings, advantages and limitations, practical guidelines for application, and ample real-world examples.

Ideal for any educator working with adult learners, this book offers a toolbox of approaches designed to enhance reader understanding and practice of adult instruction.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Learning Theory and Methods
PART I: FUNDAMENTALS OF ADULT TEACHING AND LEARNING
2. Interactive Lecture: Engaging Active Learning/Interactive Teaching and Learning with Lecture
3. Using an African Diasporic Feminist Approach to Teach for Change
4. Teaching Students to Think Critically in the Age of TikTok, Tweets, and Tenacious Titillation
5. Teaching Perspectives: A Philosophical Foundation for Methods
PART II: COLLABORATIVE METHODS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
6. Dialogue and Discussion: Applying bell hooks to Diverse Education Contexts
7. Case Studies/Case Stories
8. Collaborative Learning and Group Work
9. Mentoring to Facilitate Adult Learning
10. Learning from Experience through Role Play
PART III: METHODS FOR FACILITATING AUTONOMOUS LEARNING
11. Learning Contracts, Individualized Learning Agreements, and Personal Development Plans: Nine Components and Personal Narratives
12. Teaching and Learning with Portfolios
13. Reflexive Learning and Reflexive Practice
PART IV: COMMUNITY-BASED TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS
14. Community-based Service-Learning as Engaged Andragogy
15. Multiple Ways of Knowing: Facilitating Arts-based and Embodied Learning in Adult Education
16. Field-based Experiences and C*Sci Training for Adults
17. Strategies for Working with ESL Learners in Adult Education Classrooms
PART V: TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS
18. Gamification of Learning for Adult Learners
19. Flipped Classrooms for the Adult Learner
20. Closed and Open Online Discussion Forums
21. Adopting Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Adult Learning Contexts
22. Simulation-based Learning in Adult Education
Notes on Contributors
Index

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