Training Through Dialogue
Promoting Effective Learning and Change with Adults

This is the second in the Vella trilogy. Building on the work from Learning to Listen learning to Teach, Vella offers a lively, step-by-step approach to teaching teachers of adults. She brings forth and cultivates an entirely new set of skills for interacting with learners. Training through dialogue applies the principle of adult learning illustrated in Vella's earlier book, drawing largely on the field of popular education. Here is where learners are essentially partners in the learning.

Vella illustrates the effectiveness of this learning approach through numerous examples:

- community health educators in Chile,
- small business developers in rural Arkansas
- diverse non-profit organization in New England
- literacy professionals in New York
- AIDS educators in Haiti

Each chapter ends with a summary that invites suggestions and presents indicators of learning for those who took part in the program.

Jane Vella | 2000 | Jossey-Bass | ISBN: 0-7879-5227-3

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Jane Vella extends her previous work to bring us the sounds, smells, laughter, and images of 'train-the-trainer' workshops in popular education. Through living examples of workshops on health, literacy, and economic development in Chile, Haiti, Arkansas, and New England, we see how theory is translated into practice. Kudos for this hands-on application of popular education.

- Nina B. Wallerstein, Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico