A lively, step-by-step approach to training the trainers of adults. Using numerous examples from a variety of settings, author Jane Vella compels instructors to critically examine their old teaching model and discover a new experience in education.

Training Through Dialogue: Promoting Effective Learning and Change with Adults

Education & Teaching

Vella, Jane

Higher & Continuing Education

Jossey-Bass

Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults

"Vella writes persuasively about the power of listening as the predominant tool for effective teaching.... This is a book that broadens cultural horizons, tears down superficial boundaries, and presents excellent practical ideas for all adult educators." --NACADA Journal 
"Anyone who wants to help make the world a better place should read this book. Jane Vella is an educator par excellence. But the message of this book is not for academics; it is for the people who will help things change on the ground. This book is about reality--real people, real situations, and what I call real development." --James P. Grant, executive director, UNICEF In a distinctly personal and highly entertaining style, Jane Vella reveals twelve basic principles of adult learning to offer a practical, proven, universally applicable approach to adult education.

In 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. She uses engaging, personal stories of her work in a variety of adult learning settings, in different countries and with different educational purposes, to show readers how to utilize the twelve principles in their own practice with any type of adult learner, anywhere.

Business & Money

Education & Reference

In her landmark book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach, celebrated adult educator Jane Vella outlined twelve principles of Dialogue Education, an approach to learning as a holistic, integrated, spiritual, and energetic process. Since the book was first published, her learning principles have been used in a wide variety of adult learning settings, in different countries and with different educational purposes, clearly demonstrating that these principles can be used successfully with any type of adult learner, anywhere. Dialogue Education at Work is the companion book to Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach. This is the first book to show how educators worldwide have used Vella's methods to transform their classrooms and organizations into vital places of learning. Written for adult educators, staff developers, leaders of community service organizations, volunteer coordinators, and vocational trainers, Dialogue Education at Work is filled with illustrative case studies from a broad range of organizations that show how to put Vella's principles into action.

Dialogue Education at Work: A Case Book

On Teaching and Learning takes the ideas explored in renowned educator Jane Vella’s best-selling book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach to the next level and explores how dialogue education has been applied in educational settings around the world. Throughout the book, she shows how to put the principles and practices of dialogue education into action and uses illustrative stories and examples from her extensive travels. Dialogue education values inquiry, integrity, and commitment to equity―values that are also central to democracy. Learners are treated as beings worthy of respect, recognized for the knowledge and experience they bring to the learning experience. Dialogue education emphasizes the importance of safety and belonging. It is an approach that welcomes one’s certainties and one’s questions.

On Teaching and Learning: Putting the Principles and Practices of Dialogue Education into Action

Applies principles and concepts of popular education to evaluation?a critical piece in program development and training with adults. Using real-life case studies, the book shows how the model works in a variety of settings to help trainers evaluate adult learning.

How Do They Know They Know?: Evaluating Adult Learning

Burrow, Jim

Berardinelli, Paula

Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults (JOSSEY BASS ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION SERIES)

Friends and Family: Anecdotes and Lessons

Schools & Teaching

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

The Little Blue Book Of Dialogue Education

Job Hunting & Careers

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Training Through Dialogue: Promoting Effective Learning and Change with Adults

Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults

Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults

Dialogue Education at Work: A Case Book

On Teaching and Learning: Putting the Principles and Practices of Dialogue Education into Action

How Do They Know They Know?: Evaluating Adult Learning

Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults (JOSSEY BASS ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION SERIES)

Friends and Family: Anecdotes and Lessons

The Little Blue Book Of Dialogue Education