Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults - Softcover

Vella, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787959677 ISBN 13: 9780787959678

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2002

Synopsis

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.

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From the Inside Flap

"The deep lessons [this book] contains creep up on you and flower into joyful insights. Jane Vella is one of the most gifted adult educators I have known."—from the foreword by Malcolm S. Knowles, professor emeritus, North Carolina State University"Anyone who wants to help make the world a better place should read this book. Jane Vella is an educator par excellence. But the message of this book is not for academics; it is for the people who will help things change on the ground. This book is about reality—real people, real situations, and what I call real development."—James P. Grant, executive director, UNICEF "Adult educators, because they are also lifelong learners, will continually cheer, ™YES!? as they read Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach. The management and literacy trainers in our organization need this book as they prepare to become better facilitators of learning"—Margaret A. Price, director of field services, Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. "The principles and practices contained in these wonderful stories are an invaluable source for people who view learning as a transformative, enriching process of discovering and creating knowledge."—Fernando MenAndez, program coordinator, New England Institute for Non-Profits, Tufts University "Contains a wealth of information on how we can develop the skills and attitudes that will make a difference in the way we teach our medical students, our residents, and our patients. Medicine is changing drastically and we need tools that help us return to the essence of our art. This book is one of them. Let's use it."—Rodrigo Escalona, M.D., assistant professor, Department of Psychiatric and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine. In a distinctly personal and highly entertaining style, Jane Vella offers a practical, proven, universally applicable approach to adult education. From a graduate school in New York to the mountains of Nepal to the drought-parch

From the Back Cover

LEARNING To Listen LEARNING To Teach

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.

New material includes: the latest research on learning tasks; updated ways to do needs assessment; and new insights from the field of quantum physics applied to adult teaching and learning.

Praise for the first edition of Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach

"The book is required reading for every trainer in the Habitat for Humanity organization."
―Jodi-Beth McCain, Habitat for Humanity

"The deep lessons [this book] contains creep up on you and flower into joyful insights. Jane Vella is one of the most gifted adult educators I have known."
―from the Foreword by Malcolm S. Knowles, professor emeritus, North Carolina State University

"The stories furnish 'real life' support for the effectiveness of this approach to adult learning in different cultures and give the reader the opportunity to vicariously experience popular education in action."
―Adult Education Quarterly

"Recommended for anyone interested in education and training at any level."
―Library Journal

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0787959677
• ISBN 13: 9780787959678
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 263