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Math Basics Made Easy

by Ginny Crisonino & Steve Slavin

There’s an unspoken weak spot in our society …  most adults can’t do basic math.

 

A recent U.S. Department of Education study found that American adults are largely unable to calculate tips, understand...


Learning Futures

by Keri Facer

In the twenty-first century educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely,...


The Jossey-Bass Reader on Contemporary Issues in Adult Education

by Sharan B. Merriam & Andre P. Grace

This essential resource is compiled by experts in the field and contains the best, most recent previously published literature on the contemporary issues and includes trends affecting adult education. Compelling...


The Profession and Practice of Adult Education: An Introduction

by Sharan B. Merriam & Ralph G. Brockett

The Profession and Practice of Adult Education is a timely book and an excellent introduction to the field. Drawing from an extensive volume of literature, it provides comprehensive coverage and a clear guide....


Transformative Learning in Practice: Insights from Community, Workplace, and Higher Education

by Jack Mezirow & Edward W. Taylor

The leading authorities in the field produced this comprehensive resource, which provides strategies and methods for fostering Transformative Learning (TL) practice in a wide variety of higher and adult education...


Homeland Security

by Mark Sauter & James Carafano

Homeland Security: A Complete Guide to Understanding, Preventing and Surviving Terrorism is the authoritative textbook on one of the most important topics facing our nation. From complex policy issues to common...


Online Education For Dummies

by Kevin Johnson & Susan Manning

From admission to graduation-your personal guide to studying online

Online Education For Dummies explains the ins and outs of attending a virtual classroom, and provides you with the tools you need to hone your...


Learning in Real Time: Synchronous Teaching and Learning Online

by Jonathan E. Finkelstein

Learning in Real Time is a concise and practical resource for education professionals teaching live and online or those wanting to humanize and improve interaction in their online courses by adding a synchronous...


Adult Education and Learning in a Precarious Age: The Hamburg Declaration Revisited: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 138

by Tom Nesbit & Michael Welton

UNESCO’s 1997 CONFINTEA V conference in Hamburg has been described as the high-water mark of international adult education policy-making. It produced one of the most utopian statements about adult education...


Lifelong Learning

by Anne O'Grady

Written specifically for Education Studies students, this accessible text offers a clear introduction to lifelong learning and the impact it has on all areas of society. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject,...


Reconceptualising Feedback in Higher Education: Developing Dialogue with Students

by Stephen Merry, Margaret Price & David Carless

Feedback is a crucial element of teaching, learning and assessment. There is, however, substantial evidence that staff and students are dissatisfied with it, and there is growing impetus for change.

Student...


Activity Theory in Practice: Promoting Learning Across Boundaries and Agencies

by Harry Daniels, Anne Edwards & Yrjo Engeström

This ground-breaking book brings together cutting-edge researchers who study the transformation of practice through the enhancement and transformation of expertise. This is an important moment for such a contribution...


Improving Assessment Through Student Involvement: Practical Solutions for Aiding Learning in Higher and Further Education

by Nancy Falchikov

The assessment of students an activity central to the role of any professional in further and higher education, and is an area that is the subject of constant innovation and debate.

This book provides a scholarly...


Agency through Teacher Education: Reflection, Community, and Learning

by Ryan Flessner, Grant Miller & Julie Horwitz

Agency through Teacher Education: Reflection, Community, and Learning addresses the ways that agency functions for those involved in twenty-first-century teacher education. This book, commissioned by the Association...


Completing Your Doctoral Dissertation/Master's Thesis in Two Semesters or Less

by Evelyn Hunt Ogden

A long-term bestseller, this book is a pragmatic step-by-step guide to completing you dissertation or thesis during two semesters, in fifty workdays or less. It covers advisor and topic selection, proposal development,...


Learning Transfer in Adult Education: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 137

by Leann M. R. Kaiser, Karen Kaminski & Jeffrey M. Foley

Learning transfer is the use of skills and knowledge acquired in one situation or setting in a different environment. It is, fundamentally, the point of education. By consciously building it into our curricula,...


The Book of Ethics: Expert Guidance For Professionals Who Treat Addiction

by Laura Weiss Roberts & Cynthia Geppert

The treatment of addiction as a biological, psychological, social, and spiritual disease requires a high standard of ethical knowledge and professional skill. This groundbreaking, reader-friendly guide to contemporary...


Not Just Getting By: The New Era of Flexible Workforce Development

by Mary L. Gatta & Kevin P. McCabe

Not Just Getting By chronicles groundbreaking thinking and research on new and innovative workforce development initiatives to create flexible and collaborative programs and policies. Author Mary Gatta builds...


Sex in Education

by Edward H. Clarke

"Is there any thing better in a State than that both women and men be rendered the very best? There is not." —Plato.

It is idle to say that what is right for man is wrong for woman. Pure reason, abstract right...


Professional Standards for the Superintendency

by John R. Hoyle & the AASA Commission on Standards for t

These eight standards combine administrative knowledge with research on performance goals, competencies, and skills in the following areas: leadership and district culture; policy and governance; communications...