1st Edition
Methods for Facilitating Adult Learning Strategies for Enhancing Instruction and Instructor Effectiveness
This book equips instructors with fresh, practical teaching and training methods to support adult learning in both formal and continuing educational environments.
An extensive, how-to guide, Methods for Facilitating Adult Learning covers adult teaching and learning fundamentals, collaborative teaching methods, methods for facilitating autonomous learning, community-based teaching methods, and technology-enhanced teaching and learning approaches. Readers will emerge with an in-depth understanding of each method, made comprehensive by the inclusion of definitions, philosophical and/or theoretical underpinnings, advantages and limitations, practical guidelines for application, and ample real-world examples.
Ideal for any educator working with adult learners, this book offers a toolbox of approaches designed to enhance reader understanding and practice of adult instruction.
1. Introduction: Learning Theory and Methods
Lisa M. Baumgartner
Part I Fundamentals of Adult Teaching and Learning
2. Interactive Lecture: Engaging Active Learning/Interactive Teaching and Learning with Lecture
Joellen E. Coryell
3. Using an African Diasporic Feminist Approach to Teach for Change
Vanessa Sheared and Juanita Johnson-Bailey
4. Teaching Students to Think Critically in the Age of TikTok, Tweets, and Tenacious Titillation
Robin Redmon Wright
5. Teaching Perspectives: A Philosophical Foundation for Methods
Daniel D. Pratt
Part II Collaborative Methods in Teaching and Learning
6. Dialogue and Discussion: Applying bell hooks to Diverse Education Contexts
Chaddrick D. James-Gallaway, Patrice B. French, Alyssa Brigham, and Rahsaan Dawson
7. Case Studies/Case Stories
Steven W. Schmidt
8. Collaborative Learning and Group Work
Monica Fedeli and Edward W. Taylor
9. Mentoring to Facilitate Adult Learning
Catherine A. Hansman and Geleana D. Alston
10. Learning from Experience Through Role Play
European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiteness
Part III Methods for Facilitating Autonomous Learning
11. Learning Contracts, Individualized Learning Agreements, and Personal Development Plans: Nine Components and Personal Narratives
Jeremy W. Bohonos, Esther S. Pippins, Eboni Henderson, and Sandra Montalvo
12. Teaching and Learning with Portfolios
Benjamin A. Jimenez
13. Reflexive Learning and Reflexive Practice
Mike Klein
Part IV Community-Based Teaching and Learning Methods
14. Community-based Service-Learning as Engaged Andragogy
Trae Stewart, Tania D. Mitchell, Lane Perry, and Billy O’Steen
15. Multiple Ways of Knowing: Facilitating Arts-based and Embodied Learning in Adult Education
Randee Lipson Lawrence
16. Field-based Experiences and C*Sci Training for Adults
Jill Zaretsky and Lauren Vilen
17. Strategies for Working with ESL Learners in Adult Education Classrooms
Clarena Larrotta
Part V Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning Methods
18. Gamification of Learning for Adult Learners
Wenhao David Huang and Jill Huang
19. Flipped Classrooms for the Adult Learner
Leann M. R. Kaiser and Kalpana Gupta
20. Closed and Open Online Discussion Forums
Simone C. O. Conceição and Susan M. Yelich Biniecki
21. Adopting Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Adult Learning Contexts
Sunyoung Park, Boreum (Jenny) Ju, and Shinhee Jeong
22. Simulation-based Learning in Adult Education
James A. Cleveland
Biography
Joellen E. Coryell is Associate Dean and Professor of Adult, Professional, and Community Education at Texas State University, USA.
Lisa M. Baumgartner is Professor of Adult, Professional, and Community Education at Texas State University, USA.
Jeremy W. Bohonos is Assistant Professor of Adult, Professional, and Community Education at Texas State University, USA.
