Cover image for Teaching in practice : how professionals can work effectively with clients, patients, and colleagues
Title:
Teaching in practice : how professionals can work effectively with clients, patients, and colleagues
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 1995
ISBN:
9780787901288

Available:*

Library
Item Barcode
Call Number
Material Type
Item Category 1
Status
Searching...
30000003769084 HV29.7 F37 1995 Open Access Book Book
Searching...

On Order

Summary

Summary

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.


Author Notes

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.


Table of Contents

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