Description
Book SynopsisPowerful Techniques for Teaching in Lifelong Learning is a practical handbook that offers a range of helpful ideas and approaches for working with older learners. Written in an accessible and conversational style, it draws on the authorâs vast experience of working with older learners and tackles some of the major challenges and problems you are likely to face in teaching older learners, such as addressing inequality and diversity and dealing with resistance.
Over fifty techniques, exercises and methods explained in the book promote:
- Teaching for critical thinking
- Using discussion
- Self directed learning
- Creating democratic classrooms
- Teaching about power
- Teaching through the creative arts
The book is informed by a particular understanding of what constitutes a powerful technique, taking into account the power relationships that exist in the adult classroom and empowering students to develop a sense of their own agency and confidence in their abiliti
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
The authorThe essence of powerful teaching
Teaching for critical thinking
Using discussion methods
Fostering self-directed learning
Democratizing the classroom
Teaching about power
Teaching using the creative arts
Negotiating the emotions of powerful teaching
References
Index
