Curriculum development for adult learners in the global community; v.2: Teaching and learning.

9781575243009

Curriculum development for adult learners in the global community; v.2: Teaching and learning.

Ed. by Victor C. X. Wang.

Krieger Publishing Co.

2009

222 pages

$36.50

Hardcover

LC5219

Seven American adult education and human resource development academics and practitioners contribute seven chapters providing teacher-practitioners with a current, practical, international and adult learning-based approach to designing and developing curriculum for vocational and adult education. Where many texts on curriculum development draw mainly from behavioral philosophy, this book incorporates a variety of philosophies, judgments, and values--behavioral, humanistic, progressive, liberal, radical, and analytical--applicable to the development of sound curricula for adult learners in diverse social, cultural and economic contexts. Opening chapters address cultures and demographic changes and how culture and social forces affect curriculum development for adult learners in the global context. Subsequent chapters discuss how adult educators can help adult learners learn best, using digital technologies and in the global context.

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