Teaching in Practice

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.

• 1. Teaching and Learning as Facets of Professional Practice. 2. Viewing Clients and Patients as Learners. 3. Developing Learning Relationships with Clients, Patients, andColleagues. 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.

"Here is a book I have been waiting for for a long time a clearly written, theoretically sound, and up-to-date helpmate for workers at all levels. Farquharson's enthusiasm for the idea that the most potent tool in human service practice is the facilitation of lifelong learning is contagious." (Malcolm S. Knowles, professor emeritus, North Carolina State University)