Full Description
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 purposes, to show readers how to utilize the twelve principles in their own practice with any type of adult learner, anywhere.
Contents
Foreword to the 1994 Edition vii
Malcolm S. Knowles
Preface to the Revised Edition 2002 ix
The Author xxiii
Part One: A Process That Works and Why
1. Twelve Principles for Effective Adult Learning 3
2. Quantum Thinking and Dialogue Education 29
3. How the Principles Inform Course Design: Two Examples 37
Part Two: The Principles in Practice: Across Cultures and Around the World
4. LearningNeeds and Resources Assessment: Taking the First Step in Dialogue 57
5. Safety: Creating a Safe Environment for Learning 71
6. Sound Relationships: Using the Power of Friendship 85
7. Sequence and Reinforcement: Supporting Their Learning 101
8. Praxis: Turning Practice into Action and Reflection 115
9. Learners as Decision Makers: Harnessing the Power of Self Through Respect 129
10. Learning with Ideas, Feelings, and Actions: Using the Whole Person 149
11. Immediacy: Teaching What Is Really Useful to Learners 161
12. Assuming New Roles for Dialogue: Embracing the Death of the Professor 179
13. Teamwork: Celebrating Learning Together 191
14. Engagement: Learning Actively 203
15. Accountability: Knowing How They Know They Know 213
Part Three: Becoming an Effective Teacher of Adults
16. Reviewing the Twelve Principles and Quantum Thinking 227
17. How Do You Know You Know? Supposing and Proposing 243
Appendix: Ways of Doing Needs Assessment 247
References 251
Index 255
