Teaching in Practice

Andy Farquharson

• 07 september 1995
• 9780787901288

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This work links the practices and techniques of adult education with the teaching and learning needs of "helping professionals". The author demonstrates how nurses, doctors and social workers can learn to teach successfully and remove barriers to learning that occur in their daily practice.

Drawing on the literature of adult education and on a wealth of practical examples from different kinds of professional practice--including nursing and medicine, community education, social work, and psychology--Farquhason provides a wide range of conceptual models for improving teaching in human service practice. The author's practical methods are geared to the day-to-day realities encountered by professionals in the human services.

Teaching in Practice offers a range of practical methods for teaching and facilitating learning geared to the day-to-day realities encountered by professionals in the human services. Drawing on the literature of adult education and on a wealth of practical examples from different kinds of professional, practice Farquharson provides a wide range of conceptual models for improving teaching in human service practice.