Learning and Development: Making Connections to Enhance Teaching

Comprehensive yet easy to follow, Learning and Development is designed to help faculty, student affairs professionals, and other educators understand how students learn and what they can do to foster student achievement. Sharon Silverman and Martha Casazza reveal how diverse developmental needs—such as lack of self–esteem or cultural alienation—can be at the root of a student′s learning difficulties. They draw from the latest theory and research to explore the critical connection between learning and development in six key areas: self and identity, motivation, interaction with the environment, ways of knowing, learning styles and preferences, and self–regulation and goal setting. The authors also present six case studies to show how educators can assess and resolve learning problems while enriching and advancing their own teaching expertise. Written in clear, nontechnical language, Learning and Development provides useful, systematic approaches for making connections between teaching and learning.

Spis treści:
UNDERSTANDING LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT.
Today′s Learners.
Theories of Personal Development and Learning.
Theories Related to Cognitive Development and Learning.
A Framework for Effective Practice.
APPLYING RESEARCH TO TEACHING.
Self and Identity.
Motivation.
Interaction with the Environment.
Ways of Knowing.
Learning Styles and Preferences.
Self–Regulation and Goal Setting.
NEW TEACHING PERSPECTIVES.
Critical Reflection on Practice.
Educator as Innovator, Researcher, and Change Agent.

Nota biograficzna:
SHARON L. SILVERMAN is former director of the Learning Assistance Center and has taught in the School of Education at Loyola University. She currently teaches in the developmental studies graduate program at National–Louis University in Chicago.
MARTHA E. CASAZZA is director of the developmental studies graduate program in the Adult Education Department at National–Louis University. She served as president of the National Association for Developmental Education in 1999.Both authors were Fulbright Senior Scholars at the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa during the 1999 academic year.

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Comprehensive yet easy to follow, Learning and Development is designed to help faculty, student affairs professionals, and other educators understand how students learn and what they can do to foster student achievement. Sharon Silverman and Martha Casazza reveal how diverse developmental needs—such as lack of self–esteem or cultural alienation—can be at the root of a student′s learning difficulties. They draw from the latest theory and research to explore the critical connection between learning and development in six key areas: self and identity, motivation, interaction with the environment, ways of knowing, learning styles and preferences, and self–regulation and goal setting. The authors also present six case studies to show how educators can assess and resolve learning problems while enriching and advancing their own teaching expertise. Written in clear, nontechnical language, Learning and Development provides useful, systematic approaches for making connections between teaching and learning.