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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...


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...


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...


Adult Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 131

by Elizabeth J. Tisdell & Ann L. Swartz

Delve into the nature and mystery of wisdom in adult education, and what it might mean for the practice of adult education in the complexity of changing times.

This issue begins with a look at the nature...


Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn: A Comprehensive Guide for Teaching All Adults

by Raymond J. Wlodkowski

New to this edition is the blending of a neuroscientific understanding of motivation and learning with an instructional approach responsive to linguistically and culturally different adult learners. Based on...


Third Update on Adult Learning Theory: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 119

by Sharan B. Merriam

This Third Update on Adult Learning Theory follows two earlier volumes on the same topic, the first published in 1993 and the second in 2001. Only one topic, transformative learning theory, can be found in all...


An International Dictionary of Adult and Continuing Education

by Peter Jarvis

Containing over 5000 essential references to people, organisations, words and concepts in the field of adult education, this thorough and comprehensive volume represents the standard reference for anyone seeking...


Enhancing Learning Through Technology In Lifelong Learning: Fresh Ideas: Innovative Strategies

Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning

by Marion Bowl, Robert Tobias & Jennifer Leahy

Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning reflects on current debates and discourses around gender and education, in which some academics, practitioners and policy-makers have referred to a crisis of masculinity....


Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults

by Stephen D. Brookfield

This book is designed as a practical resource that reviews some of the most helpful approaches and exercises that teachers use when working with adult learners. Written in an accessible style, with numerous...