Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach

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.

Foreword to the 1994 Edition vii Malcolm S. Knowles Preface to the Revised Edition 2002 ix The Author xxiii Part One: A Process That Works and Why 1. Twelve Principles for Effective Adult Learning 3 2. Quantum Thinking and Dialogue Education 29 3. How the Principles Inform Course Design: Two Examples 37 Part Two: The Principles in Practice: Across Cultures and Around the World 4. LearningNeeds and Resources Assessment: Taking the First Step in Dialogue 57 5. Safety: Creating a Safe Environment for Learning 71 6. Sound Relationships: Using the Power of Friendship 85 7. Sequence and Reinforcement: Supporting Their Learning 101 8. Praxis: Turning Practice into Action and Reflection 115 9. Learners as Decision Makers: Harnessing the Power of Self Through Respect 129 10. Learning with Ideas, Feelings, and Actions: Using the Whole Person 149 11. Immediacy: Teaching What Is Really Useful to Learners 161 12. Assuming New Roles for Dialogue: Embracing the Death of the Professor 179 13. Teamwork: Celebrating Learning Together 191 14. Engagement: Learning Actively 203 15. Accountability: Knowing How They Know They Know 213 Part Three: Becoming an Effective Teacher of Adults 16. Reviewing the Twelve Principles and Quantum Thinking 227 17. How Do You Know You Know? Supposing and Proposing 243 Appendix: Ways of Doing Needs Assessment 247 References 251 Index 255