Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults
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...
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Vella discusses the 12 principles of dialogue education. Throughout the text, she uses examples drawn from her 50-plus years of experience teaching adults in the U.S., Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. The revised edition also covers recent research on learning tasks, updated methods for needs assessment, and new insights taken from the field of quantum physics and applied to adult learning. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Booknews Vella discusses the 12 principles of dialogue education. Throughout the text, she uses examples drawn from her 50-plus years of experience teaching adults in the U.S., Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. The revised edition also covers recent research on learning tasks, updated methods for needs assessment, and new insights taken from the field of quantum physics and applied to adult learning. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
\ 1\ \ \ Twelve Principles for Effective Adult Learning
Foreword to the 1994 EditionPreface to the Revised Edition 2002The AuthorPt. 1A Process That Works and Why1Twelve Principles for Effective Adult Learning32Quantum Thinking and Dialogue Education293How the Principles Inform Course Design: Two Examples37Pt. 2The Principles in Practice: Across Cultures and Around the World4Learning Needs and Resources Assessment: Taking the First Step in Dialogue575Safety: Creating a Safe Environment for Learning716Sound Relationships: Using the Power of Friendship857Sequence and Reinforcement: Supporting Their Learning1018Praxis: Turning Practice into Action and Reflection1159Learners as Decision Makers: Harnessing the Power of Self Through Respect12910Learning with Ideas, Feelings, and Actions: Using the Whole Person14911Immediacy: Teaching What Is Really Useful to Learners16112Assuming New Roles for Dialogue: Embracing the Death of the Professor17913Teamwork: Celebrating Learning Together19114Engagement: Learning Actively20315Accountability: Knowing How They Know They Know213Pt. 3Becoming an Effective Teacher of Adults16Reviewing the Twelve Principles and Quantum Thinking22717How Do You Know You Know? Supposing and Proposing243AppWays of Doing Needs Assessment247References251Index255
\ BooknewsVella discusses the 12 principles of dialogue education. Throughout the text, she uses examples drawn from her 50-plus years of experience teaching adults in the U.S., Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. The revised edition also covers recent research on learning tasks, updated methods for needs assessment, and new insights taken from the field of quantum physics and applied to adult learning. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
