The atheoretical nature of adult education research and practice is debilitating. Its uncodified
and chaotic nature can be observed in almost any pile of ERIC printout.... Adult educators …

Many practitioners protest that conceptualizing adult education is unnecessary, principally
because the activity defines itself in terms of its clientele. To many engaged in the practice of …

Adult Education at the Margins: A Literature Review Page 1 This chapter reviews the literature
related to the historical, philosophical, and contextual issues that frame why adult education sits …

Putting adult education philosophies into practice Page 1 This chapter describes seven
types of administrators whose management and leadership practices and approaches to …

This book examines the relationship among theory, practice, and research in adult
education. Chapter 1 analyzes key features of modernity and postmodernity to highlight …

This chapter discusses graduate program of adult education. Considering adult education
as an emerging profession, a graduate program in the field should increasingly teach …

This chapter offers a revolutionary new approach to adult learning that involves a radical
new concept of education as creative, critical action and of the teacher as resource person …

Faculty and administrators of higher education today face a challenge with their student
populations, many of whom are part of what is known as the net generation. Gloeckler …

This article reviews contemporary definitions of training in adult education literature with a
focus on the narrowing of what is generally considered and not considered to be training …

This issue ofAdult Learning is devoted to our philosophies of practice. How we, as teachers,
facilitators, program planners and managers, operationalize our knowledge of practice …