Planning Programs for Adult Learners: A Practical Guide

by Sandra Ratcliff Daffron, Rosemary S. Caffarella

Strengthen your adult education program planning with this essential guide Planning Programs for Adult Learners: A Practical Guide, 4th Edition is an interactive, practical, and essential guide for anyone involved with planning programs for adult learners. Containing extensive updates, refinements, and revisions to this celebrated book, this edition prepares those charged with planning programs for adult learners across a wide variety of settings.   Planning Programs for Adult Learners provides an international perspective and includes globally relevant examples and research that will inform and transform your program planning process. Perfect for adult educators and participants in continuing education programs for adults, the book will also be illuminating for graduate students in fields including education, nursing, human resource development, and more.

560 pages, Paperback

Published March 30, 2021

Reviews

[Kristin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read it for school. It was boring!

[Diane Stephens · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book that teaches you *almost everything you need to know about program planning in todays modern world. Loaded with case studies and easy to follow diagrams of the interactive planning model. Highly recommend!

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite long and a bit over-engineered. However, if you are new to program planning or desire a flexible, interwoven design model, it works well.

[Emily Carroll · Rating 4 out of 5]

As far as books I’ve read for academia go, this was lovely. I have minimal experience in program planning, but this was part of my required reading for a course I’m taking online to obtain my Master’s degree. Daffron and Caffarella are natural teachers: they use stories and anecdotes in order to bring to life the points they are trying to make. I read this book exclusively at the gym while on a treadmill. With other books, when I find myself not focusing on the reading, I know it’s time to go home. Surprise, surprise that Daffron and Caffarella sucked me in, and I burned almost 1000 calories and read about two longer chapters without growing bored. Will I read any additional work these two authors publish? Why, yes. Yes I will.