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Just out March 2013 - Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults, Stephen D. Brookfield Sample Chapter @
http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/05/11180170/1118017005-114.pdf"In this chapter I have argued that teachers of adults, even in non- credit classrooms where there is no formal evaluation by teachers and no compulsion for students to attend, need an understanding of how power dynamics constantly intersect with individual and group learning. I have tried to define the terms I will be using through- out this book, and to address how even the most nondirective and low key facilitator always exercises power. In the next chapter, I look at a common adult learning process—learning how to think critically—that often requires the full force of teacher power to be employed before learners will take it seriously. It is also a teaching approach that usually is explicitly tied to learner empowerment"
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
