Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating AdultsIn 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 purposes, to show readers how to utilize the twelve principles in their own practice with any type of adult learner, anywhere. |
Contents
The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults Revised Edition Part Two The Principles in Practice Across Cultures and Around the World | 55 |
The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults Revised Edition Part Three Becoming an Effective Teacher of Adults | 225 |
The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults Revised Edition Appendix Ways of Doing Needs Assessment | 247 |
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