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Scholarship March 29, 2017

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

The Wabash Center

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Author
Vella, Jane
Publisher
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
ISBN
787959677
Table of Contents
Foreword to the 1994 Edition
Preface to the Revised Edition 2002
The Author

Pt. 1 A Process That Works and Why
ch. 1 Twelve Principles for Effective Adult Learning
ch. 2 Quantum Thinking and Dialogue Education
ch. 3 How the Principles Inform Course Design: Two Examples

Pt. 2 The Principles in Practice: Across Cultures and Around the World
ch. 4 Learning Needs and Resources Assessment: Taking the First Step in Dialogue
ch. 5 Safety: Creating a Safe Environment for Learning
ch. 6 Sound Relationships: Using the Power of Friendship
ch. 7 Sequence and Reinforcement: Supporting Their Learning
ch. 8 Praxis: Turning Practice into Action and Reflection
ch. 9 Learners as Decision Makers: Harnessing the Power of Self Through Respect
ch. 10 Learning with Ideas, Feelings, and Actions: Using the Whole Person
ch. 11 Immediacy: Teaching What Is Really Useful to Learners
ch. 12 Assuming New Roles for Dialogue: Embracing the Death of the Professor
ch. 13 Teamwork: Celebrating Learning Together
ch. 14 Engagement: Learning Actively
ch. 15 Accountability: Knowing How They Know They Know

Pt. 3 Becoming an Effective Teacher of Adults
ch. 16 Reviewing the Twelve Principles and Quantum Thinking
ch. 17 How Do You Know You Know? Supposing and Proposing

App Ways of Doing Needs Assessment
References
Index
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. (From the Publisher)