Reconsidering Open and Distance Learning in the Developing World

Meeting Students' Learning Needs

By David Kember

Distance learning is now more prevalent in the developing world than ever before. This book reconsiders the suitability and success of established modes of distance...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40140-1 (Routledge)

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Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, Volume 7

Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice

Edited by John Comings, Barbara Garner, Cristine Smith

Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice, Volume 7, is the newest volume in a series of annual publications of the...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-6165-5 (Routledge)

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World Yearbook of Education 2007

Educating the Global Workforce: Knowledge, Knowledge Work and Knowledge Workers

Edited by Lesley Farrell, Tara Fenwick

The 2007 edition of this respected international volume considers the challenges facing work related education arising from the rapid expansion of the global economy and...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41603-0 (Routledge)

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Toward Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education

Issues and Challenges

Edited by Alisa Belzer

This volume revisits, problematizes, and expands the meaning of quality in the context of adult basic education. Covering a wide range of relevant topics, it...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-5545-6 (Routledge)

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The Theory and Practice of Teaching

Edited by Peter Jarvis

This book is a complete introduction for all educators who want to understand the techniques, theories and methods of teaching today. It explores the issues that underpin...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36525-3 (Routledge)

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From Adult Education to the Learning Society

21 Years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education

By Peter Jarvis

This unique text provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in adult education and lifelong learning. It includes more than twenty-five seminal...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36494-2 (Routledge)

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Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, Volume 6

Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice: A Project of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

Edited by John Comings, Barbara Garner, Cristine Smith

Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice, Volume 6, includes chapters on:

*Demographic change and low-literacy Americans;
*The role of vocabulary in Adult...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5460-2 (Routledge)

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Psychology and Adult Learning

By Mark Tennant

The third edition of this popular book examines the role of psychology in informing adult education practice and has been fully updated to reflect the effect...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37335-7 (Routledge)

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Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, Volume 5

Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice: A Project of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

Edited by John Comings, Barbara Garner, Cristine Smith

The Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice, Volume 5 is the newest volume in a series of annual publications of...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5140-3 (Routledge)

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Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education

In Quest of a U.S. Democratic Politics of Literacy

By George Demetrion

The book provides a historical overview of adult literacy theory, policy, practice, and research from the mid-1980s to the present. The main focus is a...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-4624-9 (Routledge)

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