Alan Rogers

The Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) at the University of Hong Kong is proud and privileged to present this book in its series CERC Studies in Comparative Education. Alan Rogers is a distinguished figure in the field of non-formal education, and brings to this volume more than three decades of experience. The book is a masterly account, which will be seen as a milestone in the literature. It is based on the one hand on an exhaustive review of the literature, and on the other hand on extensive practical experience in all parts of the world. It is a truly comparative work, which fits admirably into the series Much of the thrust of Rogers' work is an analysis not only of the significance of non-formal education but also of the reasons for changing fashions in the development community. Confronting a major question at the outset, Rogers ask why the terminology of non-formal education, which was so much in vogue in the 1970s and 1980s, practically disappeared from the mainstream discourse in the 1990s and initial years of the present century. Much of the book is therefore about paradigms in the domain of development studies, and about the ways that fashions may gloss over substance.

Flexible Schooling or Participatory Education?

Non-Formal Education

The weather keeps changing and Red Rhino can't decide what to wear, but his friends are full of advice.

Bright and Breezy

The Book of Stamford

The importance of photonics in science and engineering is widely recognized and will continue to increase through the foreseeable future. In particular, applications in telecommunications, medicine, astronomy, industrial sensing, optical computing and signal processing continue to become more diverse. Essentials of Photonics, Second Edition describes the entire range of photonic principles and techniques in detail. Previously named Essentials of Optoelectronics, this newly named second edition of a bestseller felects changes that have occurred in this field. The book presents a new approach that concentrates on the physical principbestles, demonstrating their interdependence, and developing them to explain more complex phenomena. It gives insight into the underlying physical processes in a way that is readable and easy to follow, as well as entirely self-contained. Written by an author with many years of experience in teaching and research, this book includes a detailed treatment of lasers, waveguides (including optical fibres), modulators, detectors, non-linear optics and optical signal processing. This new edition is brought up-to-date with additional sections on photonic crystal fibres, distributed optical-fibre sensing, and the latest developments in optical-fibre communications.

Essentials of Photonics, Second Edition

Robert Asher

Lawrence B. Goodheart

A historical romp through the fascinating subject of murder jurisprudence in the United States from the colonial period to the present, showing how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder law.

1620-2002

Murder on Trial

An eminent historian sheds light on the serial killings that terrorized Boston in the early 1960s, the man arrested for them, and the brash young lawyer, F. Lee Bailey, who defended him.

The Boston Strangler

Dai the Dragon Keeper was milking his dragons when he noticed the leeks had all vanished from his fields. After drinking a bottle of dragon's milk, Dai storms to the castle of Kevin the Conqueror to find the culprit!

Dai the Dragon Keeper

Teaching Adults is a comprehensive treatment of the major issues faced by teachers of adults. It is aimed at those teaching formally through courses or informally through voluntary organisations whether in classes of advanced study or at beginners' level. It is not only useful for lecturers, tutors, instructors or trainers but also for those, like health visitors or clergy, who are primarily engaged in another activity. It will appeal to those supervising practical courses with the emphasis laid on specific skills, to the liberal arts tutor seeking to extend perception and understanding in a more general sense, and to those engaged in adult vocational training and continuing professional development. The second edition of this best-selling text has been thoroughly updated and revised. The section on 'learning' has been completely rewritten and the chapters on 'Blocks of Learning' and 'Evaluation' have been expanded, incorporating new material. Teaching Adults is based on more than thirty-five years of practical experience in teaching adults in a variety of contexts in the United Kingdom and overseas. It draws on the many tutor training courses with which the author has been engaged. It seeks to come to grips with what it is that makes teaching adults different from all other branches of education, with what is so distinctive about teaching adults rather than school or college students. It is concerned both with basic principles as well as useful hints for teachers, and as such it will be of value to teachers and programme organisers alike, to students engaged on adult education courses and to their teachers, to policy makers and administrators. Its emphasis is towards the practice of teaching through greater understanding of what it is we are doing, and the author speaks with involvement and from experience.

Teaching Adults

Brian V. Street

Keiko Yasukawa

Kara Jackson

Learning takes place both inside and outside of the classroom, embedded in local practices, traditions and interactions. But whereas the importance of social practice is increasingly recognised in literacy education, Numeracy as Social Practice: Global and Local Perspectives is the first book to fully explore these principles in the context of numeracy. The book brings together a wide range of accounts and studies from around the world to build a picture of the challenges and benefits of seeing numeracy as social practice ̶ that is, as mathematical activities embedded in the social, cultural, historical and political contexts in which these activities take place. Drawing on workplace, community and classroom contexts, Numeracy as Social Practice shows how everyday numeracy practices can be used in formal and non-formal maths teaching and how, in turn, classroom teaching can help to validate and strengthen local numeracy practices. At a time when an increasingly transnational approach is taken to education policy making, this book will appeal to development practitioners and researchers, and adult education, mathematics and numeracy teachers, researchers and policy makers around the world.

Alan Rogers

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