"A publication of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education."
Introduction: Adult and continuing education as an intellectual commons
1. Adult learners
2. Access and participation
3. Adult learning
4. Adult development
5. Group and organizational learning
6. Theoretical frameworks for understanding the field
7. Histories of adult education: constructing the past
8. International and comparative adult and continuing education
9. Policy and adult learning and education
10. Sociology of adult and continuing education: some key understandings for the field of practice
11. Professionalization of the field of adult and continuing education
12. Professional identity
13. Facilitation and design of learning
14. Planning and delivering of programs
15. Assessment and evaluation
16. Management and leadership
17. Adult basic education
18. English language learning for adults
19. Adult education for the empowerment of indviduals and communities
20. Adults in four year colleges and universities: moving from the margin to mainstream?
21. The learning landscape of community colleges
22. Employer-sponsored learning in the workplace
23. Workers' education for the twenty-first century
24. Military contributions to adult education
25. Continuing professional education
26. Spirituality and adult education
27. Adult education for health and wellness
28. Environmental adult education: a many-voiced landscape
29. Distance education in the age of the internet
30. Adult education in cultural institutions: libraries, museums, parks, and zoos
31. Social justice in adult and continuing education: laboring in the fields of reality and hope
32. Struggles for utopia(s)? gender and sexuality in adult and continuing education
33. Chasing the American dream: race and adult and continuing education
34. Adult and continuing education for an aging society
35. Perspectives on disability in adult and continuing education
36. Class and place in adult and continuing education
37. Globalization and the role of adult and continuing education: challenges and opportunities
38. Paradox and promise in the knowledge society
39. Informal learning in a virtual era
40. Creating and re-creating community
Conclusion: Looking back, looking forward.
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