Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults

by Brookfield, Stephen D.

• ISBN13: 9781118017005
• ISBN10: 1118017005
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-03-11
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

This book is designed as a practical resource that reviews some of the most helpful approaches and exercises that teachers use when working with adult learners. Written in an accessible style, with numerous examples of practical applications scattered throughout the text, the book does not assume any prior experience with adult learning theory or adult educational history and philosophy on the reader's part. The book invites the reader into a conversation about some of the major challenges and problems involved in teaching adults, a conversation which draws on the author's long history of working with adult learners to describe how to understand and respond to these same challenges and problems.

Author Biography

Stephen D. Brookfield is Distinguished University Professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For forty years he has taught in England, Canada, Australia, and the United States. A six-time winner of the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education, he is the author of numerous books on teaching including Teaching for Critical Thinking, The Skillful Teacher, and Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning, all from Jossey-Bass.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xvii

About the Author xix

1. The Essence of Powerful Teaching 1

2. Teaching for Critical Thinking 35

3. Using Discussion Methods 63

4. Fostering Self-Directed Learning 89

5. Democratizing the Classroom 119

6. Teaching About Power 149

7. Teaching Using the Creative Arts 185

8. Negotiating the Emotions of Powerful Teaching 217

References 245

Index 265