Pedagogy research papers or books for adult elective education (not GED)?

Good afternoon r/education . I'm a rope bondage educator; one of my partners is a teacher. We also do yoga and dance, and one of the things that we talk about a lot is pedagogy in adult elective education - in particular, we go to yoga classes, rope classes, or dance classes, and sometimes the teachers are ...not great.

Classes where the description is ambiguous whether it will be hands on, or demo only.
Classes where we messaged the presenters to ask if they're hands on or demo only, told they were hands on, then got to the class to find out they were demo only.
Classes where the description of the class was radically different from the content of the class.
Classes where the educators get pulled on wild tangents by the class.
Classes where the educator is clearly more interested in entertainment than education.

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I was asking my teacher partner for books I could read focused on pedagogy and teaching techniques for adult elective education - I would like to be a good teacher, and I care deeply about being a good teacher. In their degree, they learned so much about getting class buy in teaching youth - how does that change when a room of people is already very eager to be there? In the school systems, the teacher has substantial authority and long term influence over the youth; how does that change when it's a peer educating for a single day. I recently paid to attend a class by a 15 year sex educator with a masters degree in sex research and a bachelors in psychology, focused on sex, who I was excited to hear speak, who then only spoke for 10-15 minutes of their 90 minute time, the rest of which calling on random members of the class to share their perspectives (people I did not pay to hear from) - my teacher partner says class participation can create people feeling like they belong in educational communities...but does it also create good education in and of itself?

I'm particularly looking for things that reference physical movement arts, as the thing I educate in is most similar to a physical movement art (dance, yoga, martial arts, aerial silks, pole dance, etcetera), but if there is any good pedagogy research in adult sex education, I'd also be interested in that.

My teacher partner and I already spent a few hours looking for material and came up with not a lot of great options.

Thanks for your thoughts!

Submitted January 19, 2023 at 09:50PM by AFoxWithRopes https://ift.tt/vzHIeW2