Description
This book equips instructors with fresh, practical teaching and training methods to support adult learning in both formal and continuing educational environments.
An extensive, how-to guide, Methods for Facilitating Adult Learning covers adult teaching and learning fundamentals, collaborative teaching methods, methods for facilitating autonomous learning, community-based teaching methods, and technology-enhanced teaching and learning approaches. Readers will emerge with an in-depth understanding of each method, made comprehensive by the inclusion of definitions, philosophical and/or theoretical underpinnings, advantages and limitations, practical guidelines for application, and ample real-world examples.
Ideal for any educator working with adult learners, this book offers a toolbox of approaches designed to enhance reader understanding and practice of adult instruction.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Learning Theory and Methods; Part I Fundamentals of Adult Teaching and Learning 2. Interactive Lecture: Engaging Active Learning/Interactive Teaching and Learning with Lecture; 3. Using an African Diasporic Feminist Approach to Teach for Change; 4. Teaching Students to Think Critically in the Age of TikTok, Tweets, and Tenacious Titillation; 5. Teaching Perspectives: A Philosophical Foundation for Methods; Part II Collaborative Methods in Teaching and Learning 6. Dialogue and Discussion: Applying bell hooks to Diverse Education Contexts; 7. Case Studies/Case Stories; 8. Collaborative Learning and Group Work; 9. Mentoring to Facilitate Adult Learning; 10. Learning from Experience Through Role Play; Part III Methods for Facilitating Autonomous Learning 11. Learning Contracts, Individualized Learning Agreements, and Personal Development Plans: Nine Components and Personal Narratives; 12. Teaching and Learning with Portfolios; 13. Reflexive Learning and Reflexive Practice; Part IV Community-Based Teaching and Learning Methods 14. Community-based Service-Learning as Engaged Andragogy; 15. Multiple Ways of Knowing: Facilitating Arts-based and Embodied Learning in Adult Education; 16. Field-based Experiences and C*Sci Training for Adults; 17. Strategies for Working with ESL Learners in Adult Education Classrooms; Part V Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning Methods 18. Gamification of Learning for Adult Learners; 19. Flipped Classrooms for the Adult Learner; 20. Closed and Open Online Discussion Forums; 21. Adopting Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Adult Learning Contexts; 22. Simulation-based Learning in Adult Education
