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The Jargon Buster

The Jargon Buster

Yanina Dutton

978-1-86201-215-8
May 2005
£10.95
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The world of adult education is like other professions: it has its own vocabulary, terminology, acronyms, synonyms, and jargon. While it is necessary to be precise and exact in our work, this profusion of terms can often get in the way of real understanding and thinking and can create barriers to those entering the world of adult learning.

The Jargon Buster opens up the language of adult learning, covering the most common and confusing terms that practitioners are likely to come across in books, articles, reports, evaluations and government papers. The Jargon Buster includes acronyms where applicable, their definitions and suggested linked terms for reference