Teachers and Trainers in Adult and Lifelong Learning: Asian and European Perspectives
Author:
Regina Egetenmeyer, Ekkehard Nuissl (editors)
ISBN:
9783631612989
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2010
Pages:
223
Size:
15 x 21 cm
Weight:
384 grams
Price:
INR
2290.00
What competences are needed in future by people working within adult and lifelong learning? What pathways of professionalisation are available to them in Europe and Asia? What are the actual effects of teacher training? What are the specific responsibilities of adult and continuing education teachers and trainers? The book focuses on teachers and trainers in lifelong learning and their professional development. Therefore it gives an insight into the state of the art of professional development in Southeast Asia, Europe, China and India. Furthermore, professionalisation in adult and lifelong learning is explored under the headings of the effects of teacher training, role-professionals, competences profiles and the question of responsibility. It also gives an insight into initiatives to professionalise the people working in adult and lifelong learning.
Mathew Varghese
Mathew Varghese is a scholar who works on classical philosophy, mainly, on the works of Nagarjuna, the second century Middle Path (Madhyamika) Buddhist philosopher. He shows keen interest in then discussing contemporary philosophical issues and interpreting them in classical philosophical framework. He has published two text-based interpretational works on Madhyamika philosophy: Principles of Buddhist Tantra (2008) and Exploring the Structure of Emptiness (2012); and also, several papers on Buddhist and comparative philosophy. He is a research fellow at The Nakamura Hajime Eastern Institute, Tokyo; and also teaches at Aoyama Gakuin University, Kanagawa University and Wako University, in and around Tokyo, offering courses on classical philosophy from a comparative perspective. As a researcher, he is keenly interested in researching the classical conception of Negation and its application possibilities.