The Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education (2020 Edition)

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Co-published with  Colleges and universities are increasingly becoming significant sites for adult education scholarship―in large part due to demographic shifts. With fewer U.S. high school graduates on the horizon, higher education institutions will need to attract “non-traditional” (i.e., older) adult learners to remain viable, both financially and politically. There is a need to develop a better corpus of scholarship on topics as diverse as, what learning theories are useful for understanding adult learning? How are higher education institutions changing in response to the surge of adult students? What academic programs are providing better learning and employment outcomes for adults in college? Adult education scholars can offer much to the policy debates taking place in higher education. A main premise of this handbook is that adult and continuing education should not simply respond to rapidly changing social, economic, technological, and political environments across the globe, but should lead the way in preparing adults to become informed, globally-connected, critical citizens who are knowledgeable, skilled, and open and adaptive to change and uncertainty. The Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education provides rich information on the contemporary issues and trends that are of concern to adult and continuing education, of the programs and resources available to adult learners, and of opportunities to challenge and critique the structures embedded in the field that perpetuate inequity and social injustice. Adult education is a discipline that foresees a better tomorrow, and The Handbook is designed to engage and inspire readers to assist the field to seek new paths in uncertain and complex times, ask questions, and to help the field flourish. The Handbook is divided into five sections. The first, Foundations situates the field by describing the developments, core debates, perspectives, and key principles that form the basis of the field. The second, Understanding Adult Learning, includes chapters on adult learning, adult development, motivation, access, participation, and support of adult learners, and mentoring. Teaching Practices and Administrative Leadership, the third section, offers chapters on organization and administration, program planning, assessment and evaluation, teaching perspectives, andragogy and pedagogy, public pedagogy, and digital technologies for teaching and learning. The fourth section is Formal and Informal Learning Contexts. Chapters cover adult basic, GED, and literacy education, English-as-a-Second Language Programs, family literacy, prison education, workforce development, military education, international development education, health professions education, continuing professional education, higher education, human resource development and workplace learning, union and labor education, religious and spiritual education, cultural institutions, environmental education, social and political movements, and peace and conflict education. The concluding Contemporary Issues section discusses decolonizing adult and continuing education, adult education and welfare, teaching social activism, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and straight allies, gender and its multiple forms, disability, older adults and intergenerational identities, race and ethnicity, working class, whiteness and privilege, and migrants and migrant education. The editors culminate with consideration of next steps for adult and continuing education and priorities for the future. THE HANDBOOK OF ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION 2020 Edition COPYRIGHT © 2021 BY STYLUS PUBLISHING, LLC. Contents Introduction PART ONE FOUNDATIONS CHAPTER 1: Philosophical Foundations of Adult and Continuing Education CHAPTER 2: History of Adult and Continuing Education CHAPTER 3: Interdisciplinarity in Adult and Continuing Education CHAPTER 4: Public Policy and Adult and Continuing Education CHAPTER 5: Lifelong Learning CHAPTER 6: Internationalization of Adult and Continuing Education PART TWO UNDERSTANDING ADULT LEARNING CHAPTER 7: Adult Learning CHAPTER 8: Adult Development CHAPTER 9: Motivation CHAPTER 10: Access, Participation, and Support of Adult Learners CHAPTER 11: Mentoring in Adult and Continuing Education PART THREE TEACHING PRACTICES AND ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP CHAPTER 12: Organization and Administration of Adult and Continuing Education Programs CHAPTER 13: Program Planning in an Era of “Wicked Problems” CHAPTER 14: Assessment and Evaluation in Adult and Continuing Education CHAPTER 15: Teaching Perspectives CHAPTER 16: Pedagogy and Andragogy CHAPTER 17: Adult Learning Through Everyday Engagement With Popular Culture CHAPTER 18: Digital Technologies for Teaching and Learning PART FOUR FORMAL AND INFORMAL LEARNING CONTEXTS CHAPTER 19: The Cost of a Dollars and Cents Rationale for Adult Basic Education Policy CHAPTER 20: English as a Second Language CHAPTER 21: Family Literacy CHAPTER 22: Prison Education CHAPTER 23: Workforce Development: Past, Present, and Future CHAPTER 24: Military Education: Evolution and Future Directions CHAPTER 35: International Development Education CHAPTER 26: Health Professions Education and Adult and Continuing Education: Working Collaboratively to Foster Educator Development CHAPTER 27: Continuing Professional Education CHAPTER 28: Adult Learners in Higher Education CHAPTER 29: Human Resource Development and Workplace Learning CHAPTER 30: Labor Education Programs: Radical Beginnings, McCarthyist Backlash, and the Rise of Neoliberal Education CHAPTER 31: Adult Education for Human Flourishing: A Religious and Spiritual Framework CHAPTER 32: Cultural Institutions CHAPTER 33: Adult Environmental Education CHAPTER 44: Education to Change the World: Learning Within/Through Social Movements CHAPTER 35: Peace-Building and Conflict Resolution Education PART FIVE CONTEMPORARY ISSUES CHAPTER 36: Decolonizing Adult Education CHAPTER 37: Adult Education, Welfare, and New Evidence on Helping Low-Income Adults Improve Their Skills CHAPTER 38: Activism in/and Struggle: Teaching for a Different World CHAPTER 39: Sexual Diversity and Allyship in Adult and Continuing Education CHAPTER 40: Gender and Its Multiple Forms CHAPTER 41: Adult Education and Disability CHAPTER 42: Older Adults: Learning and Identity CHAPTER 43: Adult Education and Race: A Critical Race Theory Analysis CHAPTER 44: Working Class, Social Class, and Literacy Classism CHAPTER 45: Whiteness and Privilege CHAPTER 46: Migration and Migrant Education CONCLUSION: Reflecting on Struggles, Achievements, and Cautions in Complex Times EPILOGUE: Considerations of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Black Lives Matter EDITORS CONTRIBUTORS NAME INDEX SUBJECT INDEX Also available from Stylus AAACE