In Working the Planning Table, Ronald M. Cervero and Arthur L. Wilson offer a theory that accounts for planners’ lived experience and provides a guide for developing effective educational programs for adults. The book presents three planning case studies that illustrate how power, interests, ethical commitment, and negotiation are central to planners’ everyday work. These stories offer guidance on how to respond to the realities of practice and clearly point out that the technical work of planning is always political. Working the Planning Table reveals how people work to negotiate educational and political outcomes for multiple stakeholders.
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"…the authors have done excellent research on the reality of the program planning." (PsycCritiques, 09/06/2007)
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“This book doesn’t just tell, it shows how real-world politics oozes around the planning table. These case studies are gritty and complex—excellent for class discussion that gets beneath the usual gloss of program development.”--Tara Fenwick, associate professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta
“Cervero and Wilson recognize the need of practitioners for concrete advice about how to approach common planning tasks, but they also do a fine job of blending these practical concerns with a thorough and thoughtful political analysis of useful cases from their own planning experience.”--Thomas J. Sork, professor of adult education,
“The authors’ unrelenting adherence to the real stories of planners as they negotiate interests and power cannot help but strike a responsive chord among practitioners for whom the political and ethical dimensions of planning can not longer be ignored.”--Tom Heaney,
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This review is from: Working the Planning Table: Negotiating Democratically for Adult, Continuing and Workplace Education (Hardcover)
Cervero and Wilson do a great job modeling adult learning theory as authentic examples were used to present a solid theoretical framework for leaders planning educational programming. The authors confirm that people use models, power and social context when seated at the planning table thus leaders must have a clear understanding of each. On a negative note, I found the books binding to be problematic. I had to continually press the book flat to keep it open and this caused pages to fall out. Pretty frustrating!
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Ralph Tyler was right, but only partly, when he offered guidance to educational planners in his classic 1949 curriculum manual. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
planners exercise power, power relations frame, instructor training clinic, desert survival exercise, adult education program planning, deliberative tradition, adult literacy teachers, whose interests matter, valuation professions, ning table, practitioner inquiry, third retreat, planning educational programs, valuation program, table metaphor, retreat agenda, planning stories, previous retreat, appraisal profession, retreat format, democratic evaluation, negotiating objectives, staff development project, instrumental problem solving, next retreat Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Phoenix Company, Professional Development Committee, Executive Adventure, Fundamentals of Valuation, Education Committee, Sam Jones, Seeing What Matters, Tyler Rationale, United States, Drawing Attention, Group Resume New!
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Ralph Tyler was right, but only partly, when he offered guidance to educational planners in his classic 1949 curriculum manual. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
planners exercise power, power relations frame, instructor training clinic, desert survival exercise, adult education program planning, deliberative tradition, adult literacy teachers, whose interests matter, valuation professions, ning table, practitioner inquiry, third retreat, planning educational programs, valuation program, table metaphor, retreat agenda, planning stories, previous retreat, appraisal profession, retreat format, democratic evaluation, negotiating objectives, staff development project, instrumental problem solving, next retreat Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Phoenix Company, Professional Development Committee, Executive Adventure, Fundamentals of Valuation, Education Committee, Sam Jones, Seeing What Matters, Tyler Rationale, United States, Drawing Attention, Group Resume New!
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- Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction by Ralph W. Tyler on page 21, and page 243
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary Edition by Paulo Freire on page 246
- Problems and Prospects in Continuing Professional Education (New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education) by Ronald M. Cervero in Back Matter
- Power in Practice: Adult Education and the Struggle for Knowledge and Power in Society by Ronald M. Cervero in Back Matter
- Effective Continuing Education for Professionals (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education) by Ronald M. Cervero in Back Matter
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