Education / Adult & Continuing Education

Adaptive Education explains how schools and universities can incorporate research processes into their activities, institutionalize a policy of inquiry and experimentation, and make teaching an evidence-based profession.

Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners, the book speaks clearly to how teaching and learning insights can be used to improve health in clinical, higher education, and community settings.

Schooling for Life represents a blueprint for community education and development as society faces the challenges of social, economic, and political renewal.

"Edited by one of the world's leading educational sociologists, based on national survey data and close-focus case studies, this book makes a powerful case for new policy, industrial, and educational thinking." - Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney

Written for people preparing to become adult educators, Making Sense of Adult Learning provides background information about the nature of adult learning and the characteristics that typify adult learners

Brian Morgan uses his own teaching experience in Canada and China to investigate the complexities of teaching English as a second language to those newly arrived in Canada and to suggest ways of becoming a more effective ESL teacher.

Adult educators/students and practitioners as well as those interested in the social and intellectual history of Canada will find in this book an attempt to recover a past we can keep faith with, and an endeavour to provide a context and depth for the current discourse on the social purpose of adult education.

In this volume the development and activities of universities, colleges of applied arts and technology, and other institutions of post-secondary education are described in detail. The public and private training activities of business and industry are outlined, and government programs for adult retraining described.

A variety of institutions and activities including the training of teachers, research and development, and educational television services are discussed in this volume, and it describes in detail the creation and growth of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and its research activities.

Professor Graham's book gives useful and practical suggestions on how to go about becoming fluent in French. It offers not a course of instruction, but a listing of practical ways of applying oneself to a study of the language.