Teaching in Practice: How Professionals Can Work Effectively with Clients, Patients, and Colleagues

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.

Spis treści:
1. Teaching and Learning as Facets of Professional Practice.
2. Viewing Clients and Patients as Learners.
3. Developing Learning Relationships with Clients, Patients, and Colleagues.
4. Becoming Skilled at Group Facilitation.
5. Assessing What Needs to Be Learned.
6. Teaching Effectively––Spontaneously and By Design.
7. Selecting Resources and Activities to Support Teaching.
8. Using Evaluation to Enhance Effectiveness.
9. Helping Through Teaching: Enhancing Professional Practice.

Nota biograficzna:
ANDY FARQUHARSON is a professor in the School of Social Work and director of the Learning and Teaching Centre at the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada. He has consulted widely on issues of adult learning and self–help groups.

Okładka tylna:
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.