The exploration of self-awareness as an essential component for understanding ourselves as a teacher of adults is rather absent in the literature. This article focuses on the elements that are foundational within the self-awareness journey--beliefs, values, and attitudes. Understanding these elements establishes the basis for practice…

Describes principles aimed at helping adult instructors manage the classroom: (1) encourage timely attendance; (2) encourage timely assignments; (3) encourage high-quality learning tasks; (4) encourage class participation; and (5) attend to the classroom process. (Contains 23 references.) (JOW)

Building on the framework of Peters and Armstrong's (1998) three Types of Teaching/Learning, this article explores the use of dialogue to foster a collaborative and democratic learning experience. There are three conditions under which dialogue can be facilitated as a part of the collaborative learning experience: (a) intent, (b) a dialogical…