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Planning Programs for Adult Learners

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ISBN :1119577403
Publisher :Jossey-Bass; 4th edition
Publication Date :March 30, 2021
Language :English
Print Length :560

Planning Programs for Adult Learners: A Practical Guide 4th Edition

Strengthen your adult education program planning with this essential guide

Planning Programs for Adult Learners: A Practical Guide, 4th Edition is an interactive, practical, and essential guide for anyone involved with planning programs for adult learners. Containing extensive updates, refinements, and revisions to this celebrated book, this edition prepares those charged with planning programs for adult learners across a wide variety of settings.

Spanning a variety of crucial subjects, this book will teach readers how to:
Plan, organize, and complete other administrative tasks with helpful templates and practical guides
Focus on challenges of displacement, climate change, economic dislocation, and inequality
Plan programs using current and emerging digital delivery tools and techniques including virtual and augmented reality

Planning Programs for Adult Learners provides an international perspective and includes globally relevant examples and research that will inform and transform your program planning process. Perfect for adult educators and participants in continuing education programs for adults, the book will also be illuminating for graduate students in fields including education, nursing, human resource development, and more.

From the Inside Flap

TRANSFORM YOUR ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM PLANNING WITH THIS INDISPENSABLE GUIDE

In the newly revised edition of Planning Programs for Adult Learners: A Practical Guide, Sandra Ratcliff Daffron and Rosemary Caffarella deliver an interactive, practical, and essential guide for anyone involved in planning programs for adult learners. Along with international perspectives and global examples, this edition features extensive updates, refinements, and revisions to simplify and enhance the reader experience. Perfect for adult educators and participants in continuing education programs for adults, Planning Programs for Adult Learners will also earn a place in the libraries of graduate students in education, nursing, and human resource development.

“Planning Programs for Adult Learners is the go-to resource for adult educators who want a comprehensive guide to creating meaningful, impactful, and timely evidence-based ideas and tools for making learning experiences meaningful for adults and translating their value and impact to key stakeholders.”
—Laura Bierema, Professor of Adult Learning, University of Georgia

“This is a wonderful update of a true classic of our field, adding important contemporary issues and insights alongside a well-established and proven foundation. Sandra Daffron is an experienced and respected educator of adults, and has positioned this powerful text to offer pragmatic value for practitioners and theoretical links for students of the field. An essential volume for anyone working alongside adult learners.”
—Ralf St. Clair, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria, Canada

From the Back Cover

TRANSFORM YOUR ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM PLANNING WITH THIS INDISPENSABLE GUIDE

“Planning Programs for Adult Learners is the go-to resource for adult educators who want a comprehensive guide to creating meaningful, impactful, and timely evidence-based ideas and tools for making learning experiences meaningful for adults and translating their value and impact to key stakeholders.”
―Laura Bierema, Professor of Adult Learning, University of Georgia

“This is a wonderful update of a true classic of our field, adding important contemporary issues and insights alongside a well-established and proven foundation. Sandra Daffron is an experienced and respected educator of adults, and has positioned this powerful text to offer pragmatic value for practitioners and theoretical links for students of the field. An essential volume for anyone working alongside adult learners.”
―Ralf St. Clair, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria, Canada

About the Author

SANDRA RATCLIFF DAFFRON is a program planner, professional educator, project and program director, administrator, and organizational executive in the U.S. and the Middle East. She has extensive experience working with lawyers, judges, teachers, correctional educators, physicians, military trainers, and graduate students. She is Professor Emeritus of Adult and Continuing Education at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.

ROSEMARY S. CAFFARELLA is an emerita professor of education in the College of Agriculture and Life Science at Cornell University. Her research and writing activities have focused on adult development and learning, and program planning and evaluation. She has authored or coauthored a number of books, including the award-winning Learning in Adulthood.