|aHandbook of adult and continuing education /|cedited by Carol E. Kasworm, Amy D. Rose, Jovita M. Ross-Gordon.
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|a2010 ed.
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|aLos Angeles :|bSAGE,|cc2010.
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|axvi, 493 p. ;|c27 cm.
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|a"A publication of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education."
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
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|aand place in adult and continuing education -- 37. Globalization and the role of adult and continuing education: challenges and opportunities -- 38. Paradox and promise in the knowledge society -- 39. Informal learning in a virtual era -- 40. Creating and re-creating community -- Conclusion: Looking back, looking forward.
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|aIntroduction: 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 delivering of programs -- 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 indviduals and communities -- 20. Adults in four year 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. Military contributions to adult education -- 25. Continuing professional education -- 26. Spirituality and adult education -- 27. Adult education for health and wellness -- 28. Environmental adult education: a many-voiced landscape -- 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 education for an aging society -- 35. Perspectives on disability in adult and continuing education -- 36. Class
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|aAdult education|zUnited States|vHandbooks, manuals, etc.
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|aContinuing education|zUnited States|vHandbooks, manuals, etc.
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|aKasworm, Carol E.
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|aRose, Amy D.
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|aRoss-Gordon, Jovita M.
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|aAmerican Association for Adult and Continuing Education.