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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Table of ContentsForeword to the 1994 Edition vii
Malcolm S. Knowles
Preface to the Revised Edition 2002 ix
The Author xxiii
Part One: A Process That Works and Why
1. Twelve Principles for Effective Adult Learning 3
2. Quantum Thinking and Dialogue Education 29
3. How the Principles Inform Course Design: Two Examples 37
Part Two: The Principles in Practice: Across Cultures and Around the World
4. LearningNeeds and Resources Assessment: Taking the First Step in Dialogue 57
5. Safety: Creating a Safe Environment for Learning 71
6. Sound Relationships: Using the Power of Friendship 85
7. Sequence and Reinforcement: Supporting Their Learning 101
8. Praxis: Turning Practice into Action and Reflection 115
9. Learners as Decision Makers: Harnessing the Power of Self Through Respect 129
10. Learning with Ideas, Feelings, and Actions: Using the Whole Person 149
11. Immediacy: Teaching What Is Really Useful to Learners 161
12. Assuming New Roles for Dialogue: Embracing the Death of the Professor 179
13. Teamwork: Celebrating Learning Together 191
14. Engagement: Learning Actively 203
15. Accountability: Knowing How They Know They Know 213
Part Three: Becoming an Effective Teacher of Adults
16. Reviewing the Twelve Principles and Quantum Thinking 227
17. How Do You Know You Know? Supposing and Proposing 243
Appendix: Ways of Doing Needs Assessment 247
References 251
Index 255
