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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.
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About the Author
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.
From the Back Cover
The author reveals twelve basic principles of adult learning that transcAnd cultural differences. She draws on a wealth of rich personal experiences--from a graduate school in New York, to the mountains of Nepal, to the drought parched fields of Ethiopia.
From the Inside Flap
In her well-received 1994 book, Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach, Jane Vella showed how adult education could be structured around adult learners' needs. Now, building on that work, Vella offers a lively, step-by-step approach to training the trainers of adults--showing them how to cultivate an entirely new set of skills for interacting with learners.Through numerous examples in a variety of settings, Vella illustrates the effectiveness of her train the trainer program: in Chile with community health educators, in rural Arkansas with small business developers, in rural Vermont with trainers from diverse nonprofit organizations, in Syracuse, New York, with literacy professionals, in a southern U.S. veterans hospital with professionals teaching about substance abuse, and in Haiti with community AIDS educators. Each chapter example Ands with a summary that invites critique and suggestions and presents indicators of changed behavior from individuals who took part in that particular program.Training Through Dialogue will compel teachers of adults to critically examine the philosophical assumptions, principles, and practices of their old, familiar model of teaching and open up to a new experience of education.
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