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Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology

•	Grading

•	Course Design

•	Religion and Academia

•	Teaching Religion

•	Adult Learners

•	"Teaching Theology and Religion" (Wabash journal)

Developing Critical Thinkers: Challenging Adults to Explore Alternative Ways of Thinking and Acting
Brookfield, Stephen D.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1991
From the Publisher
"Developing Critical Thinkers" is a book practitioners and others interested in applying critical thinking principles will find extremely useful. The writing is clear, the examples are many, and the ideas are well grounded in theory and research.

•	Adult Learners

•	Critical Thinking

The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives
Cairncross, Frances
Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA
1997
From the Publisher
Geography, borders, time zones - all are rapidly becoming irrelevant to the way we conduct our business and personal lives, courtesy of the communications revolution. According to renowned Economist journalist Frances Cairncross, this "death of distance" will be the single most important economic force shaping all of society over the next half century. In her new book, Cairncross provides a trend-spotter's guide to thriving...

•	Adult Learners

Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning: A Guide for Adults
Cranton, Patricia
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1994
From the Publisher
Jack Mezirow's theory of transformative learning has developed over nearly two decades into a comprehensive and complex description of how learners construe, validate, and reformulate the meaning of their experiences. But what exactly is transformative learning? How does it differ from other concepts of adult learning? How can educators actively foster transformative learning with adult learners? In this book, Patricia Cranton...

•	Adult Learners

New Perspectives on Designing and Implementing Effective Workshops
Fleming, Jean Anderson, editor
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1997
From the Publisher
This sourcebook provides workshop leaders and designers with the information necessary to hone their skills in everything from planning and instructional design to delivery and evaluation. The authors are seasoned workshop veterans who give practical suggestions grounded in both experience and theory. This volume will help professionals navigate the challenges and exploit the potential of distance learning; effectively use technology...

•	Adult Learners

Developing Teaching Style in Adult Education
Heimlich, Joe E., and Emmalou Norland
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1994
From the Publisher
Presenting numerous activities--for both individuals and groups--designed to foster self-knowledge and growth in teaching, the authors examine the primary elements of the teaching-learning exchange. Valuable special resources, including scales for measuring beliefs and values about teaching describes individual teaching styles.

•	Adult Learners

Learning in Groups: Exploring Fundamental Principles, New Uses and Emerging Opportunities
Imel, Susan, editor
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1997
From the Publisher
Learning in groups has deep historical roots in adult education, and adult educators use groups frequently in structuring learning experiences. Also, groups form the basis for mauch informal adult learning, both within and outside institutional boundaries. Although many adult educators espouse the value of learning in groups, the topic has been a relatively minor theme in the field's recent literature. The purpose of this volume...

•	Adult Learners

Peers in the Classroom: Case Studies in Adult Higher Education
Logan, Regina Lopata and Robert Fromberg
New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK
1999
From the Publisher
From one student's off hand remark, the idea of a casebook for use in adult education grew into a reality. Regina Lopata Logan and Robert M. Fromberg have collected twenty cases representing various experiences of faculty, students, and administrators which, while not necessarily representing historical facts, are all true. These cases convey a sense of the dynamism and complexity that educators of adults and adult students...

•	Adult Learners

Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide, 2nd ed.
Merriam, Sharan B. and Rosemary S. Caffarella
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1999
From the Publisher
The second edition of Learning in Adulthood integrates the most important contributions to adult learning in the last decade. The result is an updated, comprehensive synthesis of what we now know about adult learning--including the context in which it takes place, who the participants are, what they learn and why, the nature of the learning process itself, major theoretical developments, and much more. Sharan Merriam and Rosemary...

•	Adult Learners

Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning
Mezirow, Jack
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1991
From the Publisher
Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning describes the dynamics of how adults learn--and how their perceptions are transformed by learning--as a framework for formulating educational theory and practice. It presents an in-depth analysis of the ways in which adults learn, how they make meaning of the learning experience, and how their lives can be transformed by it.

•	Adult Learners

Fostering Critical Reflection in Adulthood
Mezirow, Jack, and Associates
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1990
From the Publisher
This book presents successful programs, techniques, and strategies for helping adult learners tap into their rich and diverse life experiences as a basis for growth and lifelong learning.

•	Adult Learners

Five Perspectives on Teaching in Adult and Higher Education
Pratt, Daniel D. and Associates
Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, FL
1998
From the Publisher
Presents five different perspectives on teaching adults, based on interviews with 253 teachers of adults in Asia and North America. After an overview of a general model of teaching and an introduction to the perspectives, Section II details the transmission, apprenticeship, developmental, nurturing, and social reform perspectives, presenting each as a legitimate way of teaching. Each perspective is described as an interrelated...

•	Adult Learners

Learning Environments for Women's Adult Development: Bridges Toward Change
Taylor, Kathleen, and Catherine Marienau, editors
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1995
From the Publisher
This volume of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education explores emerging theory and practice in adult development, adult learning, and feminist pedagogy for learning environments designed to meet women's needs. Adult women learners face special challenges as they enter or reenter higher education. Research and experience suggest that historical and current education approaches may not serve men and women equally. The...

•	Adult Learners

A Profile of Contemporary Seminarians Revisited

•	Theological Education

•	Adult Learners

•	Ministerial Formation

•	Theological Education (ATS Journal)

Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults
Vella, Jane
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1994
From the Publisher
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...

•	Adult Learners

Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn: A Comprehensive Guide for Teaching All Adults, rev ed.
Wlodkowski, Raymond J.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1999
From the Publisher
This completely revised edition of Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn offers updated, culturally responsive practical advice and strategies in the jargon-free, readable style that made the original work so popular. This valuable resource is for teachers, trainers, and anyone who wants learning to be a motivating experience for all adults.

•	Adult Learners

Adult Learning and Development: Perspectives from Educational Psychology
Smith, M. Cecil and Thomas Pourchot
Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ
1998
From the Publisher
Adult education occurs whenever individuals engage in sustained, systematic learning in order to affect changes in their attitudes, knowledge, skills, or belief systems. Learning, instruction, and developmental processes are the primary foci of educational psychology research and theorizing, but educational psychologists' work in these domains has centered primarily on the childhood and adolescent school years. More recently,...

•	Adult Learners

•	Cognitive Development

Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education
Tisdell, Elizabeth J.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2003
From the Publisher
"Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education is written from the unique perspective of teacher, researcher, and author Elizabeth Tisdell, who has extensive experience dealing with culture, gender, and educational equity issues in secular adult and higher education classrooms, and formerly in pastoral and religious education settings on college campuses. This book discusses how spiritual development is informed...

•	Adult Learners

Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools
Carroll, Jackson W., Barbara G. Wheeler, Daniel O. Aleshire, and Penny Long Marler
Oxford University Press, New York, NY
1997
From the Publisher
This book offers a close-up look at theological education in the United States today. The authors' goal is to understand the ways in which institutional culture affects the outcome of the educational process. To that end they undertake ethnographic studies of two seminaries - one evangelical and one mainline Protestant. These studies, written in a lively journalistic style, make up the first part of the book and offer fascinating...

•	Theological Education

•	Adult Learners

Learning and Motivation in the Postsecondary Classroom
Svinicki, Marilla
Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
2004
From the Publisher
While there is much available research and theory about learning and motivation, until now there has been no resource that translates esoteric findings into everyday language and examples that can be readily applied in college classrooms. This book brings the findings and theories of educational psychology to classroom faculty, helping them to adopt a scholarly approach to understanding their students' learning problems.

•	Adult Learners

•	Cognitive Development

•	General Best Practices

•	Classroom Management

•	18-22 Year Olds

Integrative Learning: Mapping the Terrain
Huber, Mary Taylor, and Pat Hutchings
Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C.
2004
From the Publisher
Integrative Learning explores the challenges to integrative learning today as well as its longer tradition and rationale within a vision of liberal education. In outlining promising directions for campus work, the authors draw on AAC&U's landmark report, Greater Expectations, as well as the Carnegie Foundation's long-standing initiative on the scholarship of teaching and learning. Readers will find a map of the terrain of integrative...

•	Cognitive Development

•	Adult Learners

•	Method and Theory

Challenging & Supporting The First-Year Student: A Handbook for Improving The First Year of College
Upcraft, M. Lee, John N. Gardner, Betsy O. Barefoot & Associates
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2005
From the Publisher
An authoritative, comprehensive guide to the first year of college, Challenging and Supporting the First-Year Student includes the most current information about the policies, strategies, programs, and services designed to help first-year students make a successful transition to college and fulfill their educational and personal goals.

•	Adult Learners

The Gathering Storm: The Educational Debt of Theological Students
Ruger, Anthony, Sharon L. Miller, and Kim Maphis Early
Auburn Theological Seminary, New York, NY
2005
From the Publisher
This issue on the educational debt of theological students revisits a topic first studied ten years ago by the Auburn Center for the Study of Theological Education. The 1995 report found that debt was indeed becoming a problem for a significant, although small, proportion of students. A majority of students now carry educational debt, and they are borrowing larger amounts than in the past. As a result, many theological school...

•	Theological Education

•	Adult Learners

International Encyclopedia of Adult Education
English, Leona M.
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY
2005
From the Publisher
The Encyclopedia of Adult Education is the first comprehensive reference work in this important and fast-growing field, and is an invaluable resource for adult educators who research and teach in the fields of higher education, work in community-based settings, or practice in public or private organizations. Its 200 articles, written by an international team of contributors, detail the research and practice of the field from...

•	Adult Learners

Adult Learners in the Academy
Bash, Lee
Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA
2003
From the Publisher
As higher education enters the 21st century, the focus on adult learning programs and initiatives will be greater than ever. This book is designed to assist faculty members or administrators who want to understand how the impact of adult learning programs has already helped transform the academy and how newer initiatives are likely to change their own campuses in the coming decades.

Drawing on his extensive expertise,...

•	Adult Learners

The Adult Learner: The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development
Knowles, Malcolm S., Richard A. Swanson, and Elwood F. Holton
Elsevier Butterworth Heinman, Burlington, MA
2005
From the Publisher
This much acclaimed text has been fully updated to incorporate the latest advances in the field. As leading authorities on adult education and training, Elwood Holton and Dick Swanson have revised this edition building on the work of the late Malcolm Knolwes.

Keeping to the practical format of the last edition, this book is divided into three parts. The first part contains the classic chapters that describe the roots...

•	Adult Learners

Aging Education: Teaching and Practice Strategies
Langer, Nieli and Terry Tirrito, Editors
University Press of America, Lanham, MD
2004
From the Publisher
Aging Education provides educators in aging studies with a unique text that responds to the paucity of instructional strategies and teaching materials. By developing and explaining a multidisciplinary approach to working with older adults in areas related to health, education, ethics, law, cultural competency for a multicultural population, translating social policy into practice, spirituality, and human services, the editors...

•	Adult Learners

•	Ministerial Formation

•	Diversity

Teaching the Bible in the Church
Bracke, John M. and Karen B. Tye
Chalice Press, St. Louis, MO
2003
From the Publisher
John Bracke and Karen Tye, a biblical scholar and a religious educator, have come together to offer a vital new work of practical insight into the task of teaching the Bible in the church. Intended for pastors, church educators, lay teachers, and those in seminary, this book provides a blueprint for effective teaching that lead beyond just conveying information to opening oneself and the learner to transformation through the...

•	Adult Learners

•	Ministerial Formation

•	Teaching Religion

•	Biblical Studies

Adult Learning Methods: A Guide for Effective Instruction, Third Edition
Galbraith, Michael W., editor
Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, FL
2004
From the Publisher
Twenty-seven American academics and educational consultants contribute 22 chapters providing practitioners with an overview of adult learning, and practical information regarding methods and techniques for use in a range of educational settings. The third edition is oriented toward a more formal instructional environment than were previous editions. Some chapters from the second (1998) edition have been deleted, the remaining...

•	General Best Practices

•	Adult Learners

Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners
Daloz, Laurent A.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1999
From the Publisher
Drawing on the myth of Mentor as companion and advisor to Odysseus, preeminent educational mentoring expert Laurent A. Daloz uses the metaphor of the mythic journey as a way of making sense of life's changes. He looks closely at what good teachers and mentors actually do, and inspires post-secondary educators to think of their work in fresh new ways. This classic, beautifully written work has been newly updated and is available...

•	Adult Learners

•	Mentoring

Women as Learners: The Significance of Gender in Adult Learning
Hayes, Elisabeth, Daniele D. Flannery, Ann K. Brooks, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, and Jane M. Hugo
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2000
From the Publisher
Here, at last, is a volume that explores and analyzes learning as a distinctive experience for women. The authors are all established adult education professionals and recognized authorities on women as adult learners. Together, they examine and compare theimportance of such factors as sense of identity, self-esteem, social world, and power in what and how women learn. Drawing from extensive research and scholarship, as well...

•	Adult Learners

•	Gender

Adult Learning and the Internet
Cahoon, Brad
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1998
From the Publisher
More than thirty-six million people in the United States are already using the Internet, and many more will join them in the years to come. Tools such as e-mail, Web browsers, and on-line conferencing present exciting opportunities for both adult learners and their instructors. The purpose of this volume of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education is to explore the effects of the Internet on adult learning--both as...

•	Adult Learners

Addressing the Spiritual Dimensions of Adult Learning: What Educators Can Do
English, Leona M. and Marie A. Gillen, editors
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2000
From the Publisher
In this issue, the authors argue that adult educators must find ways to add a spiritual dimension to their practice if they are to take a truly comprehensive approach to adult education, one that meets all of adult learners needs. They show how an integral part of adult education is helping learners discover a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives, a feeling of connection with something larger than themselves. The contributors...

•	Adult Learners

Web-Based Training: Using Technology to Design Adult Learning Experiences - CD-ROM Included
Driscoll, Margaret
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1998
From the Publisher
People without technical knowledge need a basic guide that sheds light on best practices for Web-based training. People with technical knowledge need a savvy, practical primer on instructional design for Web-based training. This is the Web-based training book that everyone has waited for!

•	Adult Learners

•	Technology Critique

Learning From Our Lives: Using Educational Biographies with Adults
Dominice, Pierre
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2000
From the Publisher
Learning from Our Lives is the first professional guide to using educational biography with adult learners. It offers anecdotes and narratives, interpretations and analyses, and numerous examples of different biographical approaches. Written for practitioners who conduct adult educational programs in formal or informal settings, this book can help teachers, trainers, career counselors, and human resource professionals to empower...

•	Adult Learners

The Art of Teaching Adults: How to Become an Exceptional Instructor and Facilitator
Renner, Peter
Training Associates, Vancouver
1993
From the Publisher
The Art brims with practical tips on a range of need-to-know topics, including how to plan sessions; set up a class room; facilitate group work; deliver lively lectures; ask questions effectively; generate participation; assign projects; design tests and quizzes; use visual aids; assess courses; and more.

•	Adult Learners

Taking Learning to Task: Creative Strategies for Teaching Adults
Vella, Jane
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2000
From the Publisher
In Taking Learning to Task, Vella draws from current theory and practice to explore the meaning and power of learning tasks. To illustrate this unique approach, she provides seven steps to planning learning-centered courses, four types of learning tasks, a checklist of principles and practices, critical questions for instructional design, key components for evaluation, and other invaluable tools." "Taking Learning to Task is...

•	Adult Learners

The Close: A Young Woman's First Year at Seminary
Breyer, Chloe
Basic Books, New York, NY
2000
From the Publisher
An intimate and inspiring chronicle of a young woman entering a vocation that for centuries has been the exclusive dominion of menSet in the context of the Church Year, The Close is an enthralling account of one young woman's spiritual journey. It is both a personal meditation on faith, in the spirit of Kathleen Norris's Cloister Walk, and a fascinating behind-the-scenes story of a graduate student's first year, in the mode...

•	Theological Education

•	Vocation of Teaching

•	Adult Learners

Team Teaching and Learning in Adult Education
Eisen, Mary-Jane and Elizabeth J. Tisdell, editors
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2000
From the Publisher
"This volume illustrates several successful applications of team teaching and learning in educational contexts ranging from the traditional classroom to the online classroom, to the workplace, to the community. The emphasis on practice is intentional; it is designed to vivify the inclusive nature of teaming relative to including different perspectives, different pedagogical methods, and both teachers and learners in the multidirectional...

•	Adult Learners

The New Update on Adult Learning Theory
Merriam, Sharan B., Susan Imel, and Phillip Owenby, editors
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2001
From the Publisher
"This volume is an up-to-date version of the popular Update on Adult Learning Theory published in 1993. Traditional theories of andragogy and self-directed learning are revisited, and the burgeoning scholarship on transformational learning and informal and incidental learning is reviewed. Three chapters are devoted to new developments in perspectives introduced in 1993 - women's learning, context-based learning (situated cognition),...

•	Adult Learners

Promoting Journal Writing in Adult Education
English, Leona M., and Marie A. Gillen, editors
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2001
From the Publisher
The use of journal writing to enhance reflective practice is not well documented in the adult education literature. This New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education volume brings insights relating to journal writing to bear on the theory and practice of adult education. The goal of this volume is to establish journal writing as an integral part of the teaching and learning process, point out how journal writing can blur...

•	Adult Learners

The Modern Practice of Adult Education: A Postmodern Critique
Briton, Derek
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
1996
From the Publisher
Briton challenges the dominant depoliticized vision of adult education, calling into question the modernist tenets and moral integrity of contemporary adult education practice. By examining his own struggle to escape the confines of modernist thought, the author delivers a succinct yet decisive critique of modern educational practice and challenges educators to reconceptualize their field of endeavor as a postmodern pedagogy...

•	Adult Learners

Teaching Adults
From the Publisher
Religious Education, the journal of the Religious Education Association: An Association of Professors, Practitioners, and Researchers in Religious Education, offers an interfaith forum for exploring religious identity, formation, and education in faith communities, academic disciplines and institutions, and public life and the global community.

•	Theological Education

•	Adult Learners

Developing Adult Learners: Strategies for Teachers and Trainers
Taylor, Kathleen, Catherine Marienau, Morris Fiddler,
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2000
From the Publisher
Developing Adult Learners highlights the powerful and compelling voices of teachers and students who have discovered the excitement of growing and changing through learning. It is full of pragmatic advice for faculty members, part-time instructors, workplace educators, leadership trainers, and virtually anyone dedicated to helping adult learners achieve rich and rewarding experiences.

•	Adult Learners

Teacher Teams That Get Results: 61 Strategies for Sustaining and Renewing Professional Learning Communities
Gregory, Gayle H. and Kuzmich, Lin
Corwin Press, A SAGE Publications Company, Thousand Oaks, CA
2007
From the Publisher
Successful professional learning communities achieve their positive results through team efforts, and each strategy in this illustrated collection of team and group process skills offers readers ready-to-use tools for success. Best-selling authors Gayle Gregory and Lin Kuzmich focus on the where, what, why, how, and when to use each strategy in order to deepen understanding, solve real problems, plan steps for transfer, develop...

•	Active Learning

•	Adult Learners

Non-Western Perspectives on Learning and Knowing
Merriam, Sharan B., and Associates
Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, FL
2007
From the Publisher
This book introduces readers to systems of knowing and learning different from our familiar Western educational tradition. As with other areas of education, the knowledge base that has developed around adult learning and education has been firmly lodged in Western values and culture. But we need only look beyond our borders as well as to our own indigenous Native Americans to find major systems of thought and beliefs embedded...

•	Diversity

•	Adult Learners

Narrative and the Practice of Adult Education
Rossiter, Marsha and M. Carolyn Clark
Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, FL
2007
From the Publisher
Within at least the past twenty years, there has been a dramatic "narrative turn" in the humanities and social sciences which finds its source in the understanding of narrative as the primary structure of human meaning making. Researchers and practitioners in psychology, adult development, and education have given increasing attention to the power and pedagogical effectiveness of narrative. The purpose of this book is to apply...

•	Critical Pedagogies

•	Adult Learners

Creating Inclusive Adult Learning Environments: Insights from Multicultural Education and Feminist Pedagogy
From the Publisher
Adult educators are increasingly faced with the task of creating and facilitating learning activities for participants from diverse backgrounds. They need to take into account the needs of both male and female learners, learners of different ethnic and racial groups, and learners from different social backgrounds in creating an inclusive adult learning environment. The developing body of literature on multicultural concerns...

•	Adult Learners

•	Gender/Race/Multicultural

•	Gender

•	Diversity

Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn: A Comprehensive Guide for Teaching All Adults, Third Edition
Wlodkowski, Raymond J.
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
2008
From the Publisher
New to this edition is the blending of a neuroscientific understanding of motivation and learning with an instructional approach responsive to linguistically and culturally different adult learners. Based on the most current educational and biological research, Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn addresses issues that focus on deepening learner motivation and helping adults to want to learn. In the book, Raymond J. Wlodkowski...

•	Adult Learners

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