Teaching in Practice: How Professionals Can Work Effectively with Clients, Patients, and Colleagues (Jossey Bass Higher & Adult Education Series) - Hardcover

Farquharson, Andy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787901288 ISBN 13: 9780787901288

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1995

Synopsis

Teaching in Practice offers a range of practical methods for teaching and facilitating learning geared to the day-to-day realities encountered by professionals in the human services. Drawing on the literature of adult education and on a wealth of practical examples from different kinds of professional, practice Farquharson provides a wide range of conceptual models for improving teaching in human service practice.

About this title

About the Author

ANDY FARQUHARSON is a professor in the School of Social Work and director of the Learning and Teaching Centre at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada. He has consulted widely on issues of adult learning and self-help groups.

From the Back Cover

Drawing on the literature of adult education and on a wealth of practical examples from different kinds of professional practice--including nursing and medicine, community education, social work, and psychology--Farquhason provides a wide range of conceptual models for improving teaching in human service practice. The author's practical methods are geared to the day-to-day realities encountered by professionals in the human services.

From the Inside Flap

This book offers a range of practical methods for teaching and facilitating learning geared to the day-to-day realities encountered by professionals in the human services. Drawing on the literature of adult education and on a wealth of practical examples from different kinds of professional practice--including nursing and medicine, community education, social work, and psychology--Farquhason provides a wide range of conceptual models for improving teaching in human service practice. He provides professionals with the tools to identify the broad variety of teaching opportunities that are present in their daily practice, and he shows them how they can improve the effectiveness of that teaching. Farquharson also includes practical advice on assessing learning needs, designing motivating learning experiences, and improving facilitation skills so that people can become partners in and directors of their own learning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787901288
• ISBN 13: 9780787901288
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 311