Adult Education

The Handbook of Race and Adult Education: A Resource for Dialogue on Racism


While much attention has been given to inclusion, diversity, and multiculturalism within adult education, The Handbook of Race and Adult Education is the first comprehensive work to engage in a dialogue specifically about race and racism and the effect these factors have on the marginalization or oppression of groups and individuals. This landmark book provides the field of adult and continuing education with a model for the discussion of race and racism from soc… More >>

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Planning Responsibly for Adult Education: A Guide to Negotiating Power and Interests


People, politics, and variable funding all contribute to the complexity of the program planning process for continuing education. In this book, Cervero and Wilson articulate a theory of program planning as a social?rather than scientific?process. In so doing, they open up dialogue in an area where debate is badly needed?Must reading for practitioners and professors of adult and continuing education.
?Von Pittman, associate dean, Division of Continuing Education, … More >>

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Power in Practice: Adult Education and the Struggle for Knowledge and Power in Society


“The single most important contribution to our field’s knowledge base in the past two decades. The authors have managed to shift the focus of adult education back to the social concerns that were taken for granted when the field was founded. We are ready for this long overdue book. Indeed, we have been yearning for this book. It will tilt our field back towards its moral center.”
–B. Allan Quigley, chair, Department of Adult Education, St. Francis Xavier Univers… More >>

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