Foundations of Adult and Continuing Education.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1: What Counts as Adult Education? -- Early Use of the Term Adult Education -- Defining Adult Education -- Typologies of Adult Education -- Forms of Adult Education -- Purposes of Adult Education -- Providers of Adult Education -- Social Forces Contributing to the Expansion of Adult Education Today -- Technological Expansion and the Emergence of the Knowledge Society -- Globalization -- Demographic Changes -- Some Key Questions Surrounding Adult Education -- What Constitutes Knowledge? -- What Constitutes Adult Learning? -- Is All Adult Learning Also Adult Education? -- What Is Adult Education's Relationship with the Rest of Education? -- What Is Adult Education's Relationship with Human Resource Development? -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 2: Who Participates in Adult and Continuing Education?: Mapping the Adult Learning Landscape -- Historic Background -- Contemporary Understandings of Adult Participation -- The Landscape Demographics of Adult Learner Participation -- Changing Male and Female Participation Patterns -- Motivation and Goals for Adult Participation -- Relationship of Prior Formal Education on Adult Participation -- Adult Basic Education and High School Equivalency Learners -- Adult English Language Learners -- Senior Adults with Limited Formal Education -- Adult Participation Viewed through the Lens of Social Class -- Different Perspectives of Social Class -- Social Class and Its Relationship to Participation in Adult Education -- Race and Ethnicity as Factors of Influence in Relation to Participation -- Adult Learner Participation through the Lens of Race and Ethnicity -- Participation Factors Influencing the Future Landscape for Racial and Ethnically Diverse Adult Learners -- Adult Participation in Relation to Adult Work Roles.

Motives for Participation -- Impact of Participation for Working Adults -- Marginalized Adults, the Work World, and Participation in Learning -- Unemployed Adults -- Underemployed Adult Workers -- Working Poor -- The Future Landscape of Adult Participation and Adult and Continuing Education -- Rethinking Constraints to Adult Participation -- Rethinking the Value of Learner Participation -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: Who Are Adult Educators, and What Do They Do? -- Historic Perspectives on Roles of Adult Educators -- Contemporary Discussions of the Roles of Adult Educators -- Metaphoric Roles of Adult Educators -- Discussions of Adult Educator Roles in Specialized Contexts -- Focus on Specific Adult Educator Roles -- Teaching Adults -- Developing and Administering Programs -- Roles Supporting Individual Learners -- Roles Supporting Adult Learning in Groups, Organizations, and Communities -- Perspectives on Professional Preparation -- Standards for Graduate Programs in Adult Education -- Professional Development of Adult Educators Not Seeking Graduate Degrees -- Current Issues Related to Adult Educator Roles -- Changes Related to the World of Work -- Changing Demographics -- Social and Environmental Changes -- Technological Changes -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Adult and Continuing Education as an Evolving Profession -- Historical Development of the Field of Adult and Continuing Education -- Early Beginnings -- Defining the Field of Adult and Continuing Education -- Identifying the Boundaries and Guiding Commitments of Adult and Continuing Education -- Growth of Specialized Adult and Continuing Educators and Their Associations -- The Field Seeking a Common Professional Presence and Voice -- The Profession, the Professional Field, and Professional Identity -- Defining the Profession -- Status of Professions and of the ACE Profession.

The Changing Professional Community -- Intellectual Commons as a Definer of Our New Collaborative World and Profession -- Professional Identity and Professionalism -- What Represents Professionalization? -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: Philosophy -- What Is Philosophy? -- Ontology, or, What Is Real? -- Epistemology, or, What Is Knowing? -- Metaphysics and Cosmology -- Axiology -- Phenomenology -- The Nature of Belief -- Philosophical Orientations -- Background -- Idealism -- Realism -- Pragmatism -- Existentialism -- Postmodernism and Critical Adult Education -- Viewing Adult Education through a Philosophical Lens -- Adult Education Perspectives on Philosophy -- The Search for Unified Purpose of Adult Education -- Implications for Practice -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 6: Historical Perspectives: Contexts or Contours -- The Value of History -- Historical Research -- Adults, Adulthood, and Diffusion of Knowledge or Self‐Enrichment -- The Emergence of Adulthood -- The Nature of Diffusion -- Higher Education -- Accommodating Adults on Campus -- Adult Students -- Adult Literacy, Basic and Secondary Education -- Work‐Related Learning -- Human Resource Development -- Learning for Social Justice or Advocacy and Development -- Early Efforts -- Twentieth‐Century Social Movements -- Folk Schools -- Workers' Education -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 7: The Adult Learner -- Definitions of an Adult Learner -- Characteristics of Adult Learners Based in Andragogy -- 1. Self‐Concept -- 2. Experience -- 3. Readiness to Learn -- 4. Orientation to Learning -- 5. Motivation to Learn -- 6. Goal Orientation for Learning -- Self‐Directed, Self‐Regulated, and Learning How to Learn Efforts -- Early Research on Self‐Directed Learning -- Perspectives on the Self‐Directed Learning Process -- Self‐Directed Learning Based in a Developmental Instructional Process.

Self‐Regulated Learning and Learning How to Learn -- Neuroscience, Neurobiology, and Cognition Research -- Neurobiology and Adult Learning -- Neuroscience, Cognition, and Adult Learning -- Intelligence and Intellectual Development -- Intelligence and Related Cognitive Testing -- Affect, Emotions, and Cognition -- Cognitive Development -- Critical Reflection and Transformative Learning -- Critical Reflection and Critically Reflective Practice -- Transformative Learning -- Embodied and Spiritual Learning -- Group and Organizational Adult Learning -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 8: Policy and Politics -- Dimensions of Public Policy -- The Public Policy Process -- Policy Analysis -- Contexts of US Adult Education Public Policy -- Adult Education and Public Education: The Place of Basic Education -- Developing Early Policies on Adult Literacy and English Language Learning -- Adult Basic Education -- Higher Education and Adult Education -- Pre-World War II Initiatives -- Post-World War II Adult Higher Education Federal Policies -- Federal Workforce Development Policies -- Lifelong Learning Act -- Advocacy and the Politics of Adult Continuing Education -- The Conundrum of Public Policy: Policy Decisions and Adult Continuing Education. -- International Policies for Adult and Continuing Education -- Policy in Organizations -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 9: Technology and Adult Learning -- Historical Perspectives -- Current Adult Participation in Internet Technology -- General Patterns of Adult Involvement -- The Influence of Technology in Adult Learning -- Adult and Continuing Education Providers and Their Use of Technology -- Formal Education (Higher Education Settings) and Adult Learning -- Nonformal Education and Technology -- Informal Learning and the Medium of Technology -- Neuroscience, Technology, and Adult Learning.

Impact of Technology on Attention Span -- Impact of Technology on Visual‐Spatial Intelligence -- Technology and the Creative Generation of New Ideas -- Effective Program Designs for Adult Learning through Technology -- Evaluating the Comparable Quality of Adult Learning in a Technology‐Based Environment -- Designing Technology‐Based Learning Framed in Learning Theories -- Designing for Critical Selection and Retrieval of Internet Information -- Designing for the Equity and Equality of Technology in Shaping Adult Learning -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 10: The Landscape of Adult Education: Prominent Organizational Contexts of Adult Education -- Work‐Related Adult Education and Learning -- Human Resource Development -- Continuing Professional Education -- Postsecondary Education of Adults -- Community Colleges -- Four‐Year Colleges and Universities -- Basic Education and English as a Second Language Education for Adults -- Adult Basic Education and Secondary Education -- ESL Education for Adults -- Adult Education within and for the Military -- Literacy Education of Service Personnel -- Higher Education -- Professional Military Education -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 11: The Landscape of Adult Education: Community‐Based and Community Action Contexts of Adult Education -- Adults Learning within the Community -- Faith‐Based Adult Education -- Cultural Organizations -- Wellness Programs -- Adult Education by and for the Community -- Community Development -- Deliberative Democracy and Community Engagement -- Learning through Civic Engagement and Involvement in Grass Roots Organizations -- How Adult Learning Benefits the Community -- Adult Education for Societal Change -- Adult Education within Social Movements for Social Justice -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 12: Changing Boundaries of Adult and Continuing Education -- Trends and Issues.

Dilemmas of the Adult Learner.

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