Teaching, Coaching And Mentoring Adult Learners

<P>The challenge for those coaching, mentoring, supervising or teaching adults is to design and deliver high-quality programmes that encompass a blend of teaching and learning approaches and strategies, that are constructed for adult learners in multiple educational environments and that cater for the diversity of adult learners¿ needs. Adult learners are complex individuals who come to the learning process with a multitude of different experiences. <I>Teaching, Coaching and Mentoring Adult Learners </I>helps practitioners step up to this challenge by developing the skills needed to share their expertise with adult learners and engage them in new transformative practices. </P><P>This book also forms a timely contribution to the current period of evolution in adult education, where extreme changes in the nature and scope of work and the globalisation of work and life are influencing learning. The shift in adult education addressed in this book includes:</P><UL><P><LI>the globalisation o