Training Through Dialogue Promoting Effective Learning and Change With Adults

In her well-received 1994 book, Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach, Jane Vella showed how adult education could be structured around adult learners' needs. Now, building on that work, Vella offers a lively, step-by-step approach to training the trainers of adults--showing them how to cultivate an entirely new set of skills for interacting with learners.Through numerous examples in a variety of settings, Vella illustrates the effectiveness of her train the trainer program: in Chile with community health educators, in rural Arkansas with small business developers, in rural Vermont with trainers from diverse nonprofit organizations, in Syracuse, New York, with literacy professionals, in a southern U.S. veterans hospital with professionals teaching about substance abuse, and in Haiti with community AIDS educators. Each chapter example Ands with a summary that invites critique and suggestions and presents indicators of changed behavior from individuals who took part in that particular program.Training Through Dialogue will compel teachers of adults to critically examine the philosophical assumptions, principles, and practices of their old, familiar model of teaching and open up to a new experience of education.Vella, Jane K. is the author of 'Training Through Dialogue Promoting Effective Learning and Change With Adults', published 1995 under ISBN 9780787901356 and ISBN 0787901350.