Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education

AAACE Statement Table of Contents 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 Delivery of Adult Learning Experiences 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 Individuals and Communities 20. Adults in Four Years of 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. Armed Forces Education 25. Continuing Professional Education 26. Spirituality and Adult Education 27. Adult and Continuing Education for Health and Wellness 28. Environmental Adult and Continuing Education 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 Ed. In Relation to an Aging Society 35. Adult and Continuing Education for Adults with Disabilities 36. Class and Place in Adult and Continuing Education 37. Globalization and the Role of Adult and Continuing Education: Challenges and Opportunities 38. The Knowledge Society and Adult and Continuing Education 39. Informal Learning in a Virtual Era - Kathleen King 40. Creating and Re-Creating Community Conclusion: Looking Forward, Looking Backward Editor Bios Contributor List Index

Serving as a useful overview of the field's landscape at a given point in time and place, the Handbook enjoys a unique status as the point of first reference when exploring the disparate theory and practice of adult and continuing education. The 2010 Handbook under the skilled editorial guidance of Carol E. Kasworm, Amy D. Rose, and Jovita M. Ross-Gordon continues the informed legacy of the preceding volumes. At the same time, it advances the academic and professional substance of the field with attention to its symbiotic nature and impact on the broader society. Published by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) with SAGE Publications, the Handbook is a needed addition to the adult educator's professional collection. In one readable compendium it provides a baseline status report of where the field is today, its intellectual and institutional antecedents, and future directions. Practitioners and scholars in the field will find conceptual and applied material synthesized in a lucid fashion. The bibliographic citations provide a map to research and standards of practice over the past several decades. -- James K. Broomall, Assistant Provost * The Journal of Continuing Higher Education *