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Training through dialogue : promoting effective learning and change with adults / Jane Vella.

By: Vella, Jane Kathryn, 1931-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series: Publisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c1995Edition: 1st ed.Description: xix, 203 ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0787901350; 9780787901356.Subject(s): Adult education teachers -- Training of | Adult learning | Popular education | Education | Teacher training | Adult education, continuous learningDDC classification: 370.71 VEL
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A lively, step-by-step approach to training the trainers of adults. Using numerous examples from a variety of settings, author Jane Vella compels instructors to critically examine their old teaching model and discover a new experience in education.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-198) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Part 1 Training That Respects the Learner
  • 1 Teaching Adults: Insights from Popular Education
  • 2 Training Trainers in the Popular Education Approach: One Model
  • Part 2 Lessons Learned from Practice
  • 3 Group Size and the Role of the ""Professor"": Training Trainers in Community Health
  • 4 The Importance of Dialogue: Training in Nonprofit Organizations
  • 5 Honoring the Role of the Learner: Training with Health Professionals
  • 6 Transforming the Culture of Teaching: Training in Lite

Author notes provided by Syndetics

JANE VELLA is president of Jubilee Popular Education Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, and adjunct professor at the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach (Jossey-Bass, 1994). Vella has designed and led community education and staff development programs in more than forty countries around the world.