Product Description

• How do adults really learn?
• How do I handle the first class or session?
• How can I get my material across in a way that will interest and excite people?

Completely revised and updated throughout, the new edition of this friendly and practical book is the guide on how to teach adults. Written in an accessible style, it unravels the myths of teaching adults, while explaining why it is both a rewarding and a complex task.

Using case studies and examples from a wide range of sources including higher education, adult education and management development, Adults Learning answers questions such as:

• How do I deal with a group of mixed ability?
• How can I can I manage the conflicts that may arise in a group?
• Which teaching methods work best and which are least effective?

The author includes new chapters on problem-based learning and action learning, updated and extensive new material on handling groups, and a revised chapter on coaching, providing plenty of points for further discussion.

Adults Learning is a must-read for anyone involved in teaching adults.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #137111 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
Jenny Rogers is an executive coach and a Director of the London-based consulting and coaching practice Management Futures Ltd. She has been teaching adults throughout her career, dealing specifically with management development and training other executive coaches over the last sixteen years. She is author of Coaching Skills (Open University Press, 2004) and Developing a Coaching Business (Open University Press, 2006).

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Customer Reviews

Easy to Read & Lots of Information
I read this book after I first started work in Adult Eduction. I wish I had read it before I started! I realised after reading it all of the errors I had been making.

This is a very practical book, it won't bog you down in concepts and theory. There wasn't a single page I didn't find useful.

It's written in a very accessible friendly style, but still gets all the information you need accross. I tore my way though it the first time and then I found it really easy to flick through and find something I wanted to recap on.

It really has made a difference to my work.

Best book on adult teaching there is!
I am a Learndirect tutor of adults with disabilities and wanted to read more about how adults actually learn. This perfect little book answered all my questions. The foreward has a lovely warm tone and sets the scene for the rest of the book which has a down-to-earth, not overly theoretical approach as do some of the post-compulsory education teaching books.

Chapter headings are as follows to give you an idea of the content: Adult learners: what you need to know, Giving Feedback, Understanding your Group, Mixed ability groups, Lectures and Demonstrations, Case Studies, role-play, simulation and games, Discussion and Facilitation, Tutoring Open Learners, Coaching and Mentoring, and Evaluating Learning.

The book sees learning from the learner's point of view, which helps the tutor decide how best to go about facilitating that learning, rather than 'teaching'. I like the way the book looks at ALL the different and newer settings that trainers/tutors/teachers may now find themselves in, and though first written in 1971 it has been updated to a fourth edition.

This is the most friendly and practical book on teaching adults I have read and I thoroughly recommend it whether you are a further education teacher, evening class tutor, private one-to-one tutor, coach or mentor or any of the other guises adult educators fall into in modern times.

Great for 730 students
This book is great for the practical approch of the C&G 730. It covers a lot of the touchy feel areas that might be missing in more theory based texts. The case studies are also valuable. They feel real.