Description
Book SynopsisOffers a practical guide to negotiation for planners of adult education programs. This book covers a range of topics including negotiating social and organizational contexts, learning objectives, development of the instructional program, evaluation and assessment, finance and marketing.
Trade Review"…the authors have done excellent research on the reality of the program planning." (
PsycCritiques, 09/06/2007)
Table of ContentsPreface v
Working the Planning Table: A Theory for Practice
1. Seeing What Matters: Education as a Struggle for Knowledge and Power 5
2. Practicing Educational Planning: Three Stories 27
3. Negotiating Democratically for Educational and Political Outcomes 77
Working the Planning Table: The Theory in Practice
4. Negotiating the Program’s Needs-Assessment 107
5. Negotiating the Program’s Educational, Management, and Political Objectives 137
6. Negotiating the Program’s Instructional Design and Implementation 161
7. Negotiating the Program’s Administrative Organization and Operation 187
8. Negotiating the Program’s Formal and Informal Evaluation 213
9. Working the Planning Table in the Struggle for Knowledge and Power 241
References 269
The Authors 285
Index 289
