Mapping the Field of Adult and Continuing Education

"In the foreword to Steven B. Frye, 2017 President of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE), sets the stage by stating that 'the rapid-paced changes we are experiencing in our world call for an ongoing conversation to keep adult education relevant, fresh, and current'. Thus, the focus of this volume is to explore and add depth to the research, evaluation, and methods involved in understanding the major issues and influences in the adult education field.

In sum, this final volume does exactly what is promised in the preface: 'to follow connections among topics to navigate among articles, discover additional publications, and find ideas to share with program stakeholders'."

Foreword—Steven B. Frye
Preface
Introduction to Volume Four—Alan B. Knox

Section Thirteen: Organizational and Societal Influences
61) How national, regional and global associations influence adult learning policy—Alan Tuckett
62) Adult Education for Employment in the Global Economy—Ellen Scully-Russ
63) Professional Associations—Leslie A. Cordie
64) Professional Journals for Educators of Adults—Curtis A. Olson, Lorilee Sandmann
65) Land Grant Colleges and Universities Regional and International Collaboration—Jeff Zacharakis, Sue Maes

Section Fourteen: Engaged Inquiry
66) Community Engaged Universities Beneficial Exchanges—Séamus Ó Tuama, Hiram Fitzgerald, Lorilee Sandmann, James Votruba
67) Learning Cities Advancing Lifelong Learning through Philosophy, Practice, and Policy—Leodis Scott
68) Analysis on Assessment of Learning Districts in Beijing—Cuizhu Zhang
69) Taiwan’s Community Universities: Meaning Making to Create Change—Ya-Hui Fang, Cuizhu Zhang
70) Popular Education from Ireland and the United States History and Hope—Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, Brid Connolly
71) Strategies for Co-constructing Research with Aboriginal People in Adult Education—Marie (Aurélie) Thériault

Section Fifteen: Methods of Inquiry
72) Concept Mapping and Knowledge Modeling in Adult Education—Kevin M. Roessger, Barbara J. Daley
73) Historical Research in Adult Continuing Education—Amy Rose
74) Personal Perspectives by Educators of Adults—Gretchen T. Bersch
75) The Essence of Malcolm Knowles’s Teachings of Andragogy—John A. Henschke
76) Case Studies—Jill Zarestky
77) Educational Design Research—Thomas C. Reeves, Patricia M. Reeves

Section Sixteen: Assessment and Evaluation
78) Program Evaluation—Joseph S. Green
79) Proficiency Self-Assessments: Development and Use to Enhance Performance—Julia N. Savoy
80) Action Technologies Contemporary Community-Engaged Action Research—Lorilee R. Sandmann, Karen E. Watkins

Glossary
Editors and Contributors
Appendix: Contents for Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3
Editors and contributors
Index

Alan B. Knox

Alan B. Knox is Professor Emeritus of educational leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He continues his scholarly work and staff development sessions for helping professionals through the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health office of Continuing Professional Development. He currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Simone C. O. Conceição

Simone C. O. Conceição is a professor and chair in the Department of Administrative Leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her doctorate in adult and distance education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her master's in adult and continuing education leadership from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has served on the editorial board of six journals and has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals; written more than 20 book chapters; and authored five books on the topics of online education, adult learning, online student motivation and support, and faculty workload when teaching online.

Larry G. Martin

Larry G. Martin is professor emeritus of adult and continuing education leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As a faculty member for more than 36 years, he routinely taught graduate courses on program planning in adult education, administration of adult education programs, evaluation of adult education programs, and others. For 20 years he served in a number of administrative roles in higher education. A 2015 inductee into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame, he has published three edited books and numerous articles and book chapters.