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    Jane Vella was a Catholic nun and educator who developed the principles of dialogue education. She taught in Tanzania in the 1950s and was influenced by thinkers like Paulo Freire and advocates of popular education. Vella focused on learner-centered teaching methods and designed her eight steps of planning around assessing learners' needs. Her books explored active learning techniques, evaluation methods, and how dialogue education differs from traditional lecture-based models.

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    Jane Vella was a Catholic nun and educator who developed the principles of dialogue education. She taught in Tanzania in the 1950s and was influenced by thinkers like Paulo Freire and advocates of popular education. Vella focused on learner-centered teaching methods and designed her eight steps of planning around assessing learners' needs. Her books explored active learning techniques, evaluation methods, and how dialogue education differs from traditional lecture-based models.

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    The means is dialogue, the end is

    learning, the purpose is peace.

    JANE VELLA
    Kaitlin Weidner

    INTRO TO DIALOGUE
    EDUCATION
    Vellas Four Is
    Keep these in mind!
    Youll need them later!

    ADULT LEARNING ASSUMPTIONS


    Orientation to Learning
    Need to Know

    JANE VELLA
    1931 Born in New York City
    1950 Became a Maryknoll Sister with Catholic Church
    1956 Taught in Tanzania
    1968-73 Taught at the Institute of Education at the University of Dar
    es Salaam
    1977 Left Maryknoll; Earned doctorate at the University of Mass. at
    Amherst
    1981 Founded Jubilee Popular Education Center (Global Learning
    Partners)

    SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT
    Dissatisfaction with traditional education
    Studied how her students learned while teaching in Tanzania
    Influenced by

    Ann Hope Training for Transformation


    Julius Nyerere President of Tanzania
    Paulo Freire
    Malcolm Knowles
    Benjamin Bloom Blooms Taxonomy

    EDUCATION
    Doctorate in Community Education for Development
    Professor at
    the University of Dar es Salaam
    North Carolina State University

    Awards
    Dory Storms Award Improvement of health practices to underprivileged
    Honorary Faculty Member of the School of Medicine of the Pontifical
    University of Chile

    Jane Vella Dialogue Education Award

    KEY CONTRIBUTIONS
    Dialogue Education
    Freedom from Hunger
    Habitat for Humanity

    Vellas Four Is
    8 Steps of Design
    Global Learning Partners

    DIALOGUE EDUCATION VS
    TRADITIONAL EDUCATION
    Clear teaching
    objectives: teacher
    focused

    Visual, auditory, and


    kinesthetic
    participants are
    mentally, physically and
    verbally engaged with
    the material
    Lectures; PowerPoint;
    Evaluation done via
    end-of-session Q&A
    academic tests to
    (sometimes)
    measure rote
    memorization of
    material.
    Participants and
    Clear AchievementTeachers knowledge are
    based Objectives
    both valuable
    (ABOs): learner focused

    Teachers knowledge is
    the most important

    Active learning tasks:


    hands on or discussion
    based

    Measurable evaluation
    methods to track the
    potential for applying
    the new material in real

    8 STEPS OF PLANNING
    Each activity should be focused on learners needs.

    LITERATURE
    Training Through Dialogue: Promoting Effective Learning and Change
    with Adults (1995)
    How Do They Know They Know? Evaluating Adult Learning (1997)
    Taking Learning to Task: Creative Strategies for Teaching Adults (2000)
    Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating
    Adults (2002)
    Dialogue Education at Work: Case Studies (2004)
    On Teaching and Learning: Putting the Principles and Practices of
    Dialogue Education into Action (2007)

    RELATIONSHIP TO DISCIPLESHIP

    RELATION TO COURSE MATERIAL


    / VELLAS 6 PS
    Political
    Distribution of Power
    in the process and
    Content Selected

    Participative
    Everyone involved
    has time to speak
    listen and be
    engaged

    Problem Posing
    Part of a whole
    Dialogue around
    Must have a follow-up
    adult themes evoking and continuity, not a
    affective
    single event
    psychomotor, and
    cognitive responses
    Person-centered
    Purpose is the
    development of all
    people involved, not
    just covering the
    content

    Prepared
    Learning is
    designated for
    specific learners,
    prepare lesson
    beforehand

    HOW DID THESE PLAY OUT IN


    THE PRESENTATION?
    Inductive Task
    Input Task
    Implementation Task
    Integration Task

    HOW DID THESE PLAY OUT IN


    THE PRESENTATION?
    Inductive Task
    Assumptions of Adult Learners

    Input Task
    Vellas Four Is
    Dialogue Education Chart
    8 Steps of Planning

    Implementation Task
    Relationship to Discipleship

    Integration Task
    Vellas 6 Ps

    WORKS CITED
    "Have An Event Coming Up?"YouTube. YouTube, 11 Feb. 2015. Web. 04
    Apr. 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOEm4z-hQVc>.
    "How to Make a PB&J Using Vella's 4 I's."YouTube. YouTube, 31 Oct. 2012.
    Web. 04 Apr. 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJGae8gUH2E>.
    "Jane Vella."Global Learning Partners. N.p., n.d. Web.
    <http://www.globallearningpartners.com/index.php>.

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