In this updated version of her landmark book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach, celebrated adult educator Jane Vella revisits her twelve principles of dialogue education with a new theoretical perspective gleaned from the discipline of quantum physics. Vella sees the path to learning as a holistic, integrated, spiritual, and energetic process. She uses engaging, personal stories of her work in a variety of adult learning settings, in different countries and with different educational purposes, to show readers how to utilize the twelve principles in their own practice with any type of adult learner, anywhere.
By:
Jane Vella (Jubilee Popular Education Center Raleigh North Carolina)
Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Revised Edition
Dimensions:
Height: 221mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780787959678
ISBN 10: 0787959677
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 20 June 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword to the 1994 Edition vii Malcolm S. Knowles Preface to the Revised Edition 2002 ix The Author xxiii Part One: A Process That Works and Why 1. Twelve Principles for Effective Adult Learning 3 2. Quantum Thinking and Dialogue Education 29 3. How the Principles Inform Course Design: Two Examples 37 Part Two: The Principles in Practice: Across Cultures and Around the World 4. LearningNeeds and Resources Assessment: Taking the First Step in Dialogue 57 5. Safety: Creating a Safe Environment for Learning 71 6. Sound Relationships: Using the Power of Friendship 85 7. Sequence and Reinforcement: Supporting Their Learning 101 8. Praxis: Turning Practice into Action and Reflection 115 9. Learners as Decision Makers: Harnessing the Power of Self Through Respect 129 10. Learning with Ideas, Feelings, and Actions: Using the Whole Person 149 11. Immediacy: Teaching What Is Really Useful to Learners 161 12. Assuming New Roles for Dialogue: Embracing the Death of the Professor 179 13. Teamwork: Celebrating Learning Together 191 14. Engagement: Learning Actively 203 15. Accountability: Knowing How They Know They Know 213 Part Three: Becoming an Effective Teacher of Adults 16. Reviewing the Twelve Principles and Quantum Thinking 227 17. How Do You Know You Know? Supposing and Proposing 243 Appendix: Ways of Doing Needs Assessment 247 References 251 Index 255
The Author Jane Vella is the founder of Global Learning Partners, Inc., and is former adjunct professor at the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has designed and led community education and staff development programs in more than forty countries around the world. She is currently retired and living in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she continues her research on adult learning.
Reviews for Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults
Praise for the first edition of Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach The book is highly recommended reading for every trainer in the Habitat for Humanity organization. The deep lessons [this book] contains creep up on you and flower into joyful insights. Jane Vella is one of the most gifted adult educators I have known. --from the Foreword by Malcolm S. Knowles, professor emeritus, North Carolina State University The stories furnish 'real life' support for the effectiveness of this approach to adult learning in different cultures and give the reader the opportunity to vicariously experience popular education in action. --Adult Education Quarterly Recommended for anyone interested in education and training at any level. --Library Journal
