Planning Programs for Adult Learners: A Practical Guide

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Sandra Ratcliff Daffron (Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA) Rosemary S. Caffarella (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond)

Planning Programs for Adult Learners

A Practical Guide

Sandra Ratcliff Daffron (Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA), Rosemary S. Caffarella (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond), Ronald M. Cervero (University of Georgia) , Rosemary S. Caffarella

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Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
12 March 2021

Educational strategies & policy; Adult education, continuous learning

Strengthen your adult education program planning with this essential guide

Planning Programs for Adult Learners: A Practical Guide, 4th Edition is an interactive, practical, and essential guide for anyone involved with planning programs for adult learners. Containing extensive updates, refinements, and revisions to this celebrated book, this edition prepares those charged with planning programs for adult learners across a wide variety of settings.

Spanning a variety of crucial subjects, this book will teach readers how to: Plan, organize, and complete other administrative tasks with helpful templates and practical guides Focus on challenges of displacement, climate change, economic dislocation, and inequality Plan programs using current and emerging digital delivery tools and techniques including virtual and augmented reality

Planning Programs for Adult Learners provides an international perspective and includes globally relevant examples and research that will inform and transform your program planning process. Perfect for adult educators and participants in continuing education programs for adults, the book will also be illuminating for graduate students in fields including education, nursing, human resource development, and more.

By: Sandra Ratcliff Daffron (Western Washington University Bellingham WA), Rosemary S. Caffarella (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond), Rosemary S. Caffarella
Foreword by: Ronald M. Cervero (University of Georgia)
Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 4th edition
Dimensions: Height: 274mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 41mm
Weight: 1.111kg
ISBN: 9781119577409
ISBN 10: 1119577403
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 12 March 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Figures and Exhibits ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xix Dedication xxi The Authors xxiii 1 Planning Programs for Adults: What It’s About Today, Tomorrow, and into the Future 1 2 Introducing the Interactive Model 29 3 Planning Programs in Difficult Times Using Technological Tools 55 4 Exploring the Foundations of Program Planning 91 5 Discerning the Context 115 6 Building Support and Identifying Needs 145 7 Developing Program Goals and Objectives 181 8 Designing Instruction 211 9 Transfer of Training: Adult Education and Workplace Learning 249 10 Formulating Program Evaluation Plans 283 11 Selecting Formats, Scheduling, and Staffing Programs 311 12 Preparing and Managing Budgets 343 13 Marketing Programs 379 14 It’s All in the Details 407 15 Using the Interactive Model and Looking to the Future 441 References 461 Index 511

SANDRA RATCLIFF DAFFRON is a program planner, professional educator, project and program director, administrator, and organizational executive in the U.S. and the Middle East. She has extensive experience working with lawyers, judges, teachers, correctional educators, physicians, military trainers, and graduate students. She is Professor Emeritus of Adult and Continuing Education at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. ROSEMARY S. CAFFARELLA is an emerita professor of education in the College of Agriculture and Life Science at Cornell University. Her research and writing activities have focused on adult development and learning, and program planning and evaluation. She has authored or coauthored a number of books, including the award-winning Learning in Adulthood.