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Michael Fullan – Teachers College Press, 2025
The sixth edition of The New Meaning of Educational Change is unlike any of its predecessors. Michael Fullan first provides a deeply critical account of the last 60 years of educational change across the world with a focus on the United States. He then presents a radically different future based on learnings from the past and innovative examples…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, Influence of Technology, School Restructuring
Baumgartner, Lisa M.; Lee, Ming-Yeh; Birden, Susan; Flowers, Doris – 2003
The purpose of this monograph is to serve as a primer for practitioners on the foundational theories of adult learning. It begins with an explanation two lenses through which learning theory is viewed: behaviorism and constructivism. The next section defines andragogy and delineates Knowles's five assumptions about adult learners. This is followed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Afrocentrism, Andragogy
Tisdell, Elizabeth J. – 2003
This book discusses how spiritual development is informed by culture, how spirituality assists in meaning making, and how understanding the relationship between culture and spirituality can help adult educators make their students' educational experiences more transformative and culturally relevant. Particular attention is paid to spirituality's…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cultural Context