The Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education by Tonette S Rocco

The Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education by Tonette S Rocco

The 2020 Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education provides rich information on the contemporary issues and trends that are of concern to adult and continuing education, the programs and resources available to adult learners, and 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, ask questions, and help the field flourish in uncertain and complex times. The editors offer an introduction that describes the core themes of the handbook. The book is then divided into five parts: Foundations: The first part includes six chapters that situate the field by describing the developments, core debates, perspectives, and key principles that form the basis of the field. Understanding Adult Learning: The second part offers chapters on adult learning, adult development, motivation, access, participation, support of adult learners, and mentoring. Teaching Practices and Administrative Leadership: The third part addresses organization and administration, program planning, assessment and evaluation, teaching perspectives, andragogy and pedagogy, public pedagogy, and digital technologies for teaching and learning. Formal and Informal Learning Contexts: The fourth part includes 17 chapters on the wide spectrum of the field, from adult basic education to health professions education, and from religious and spiritual education to social and political movements. Contemporary Issues: The fifth part contains 11 chapters on a broad spectrum of issues facing the field. The editors then provide a concluding chapter and an epilogue and offer some next steps for adult and continuing education and priorities for the future.

"To sum up, potential readers will probably find everything they want to know about current adult education and continuing learning in this latest edition of the HandbookIn this context, it is worth mentioning that one of the key strengths of this publication is the broad scale of topics it covers. Many of them, which are part of the 'contemporary issues', have never been discussed by foundational literature. Therefore, these chapters can be a source of inspiration for both students and researchers as well as practitioners and stakeholders seeking new fresh approaches to rebuilding lifelong learning programmes or introducing policy innovations. The editorial team did an colossal job in providing an overview of knowledge concerning the complexities of lifelong learning and shedding light on unconscious biases in its background. This Handbook definitely raises awareness of them.

I found reading the Handbook’s chapters helpful and inspirational. Any scholar or professional who wishes to build a better community through learning will benefit from them."

Jan Kalenda

International Review of Education - Journal of Lifelong Learning (IRE)

Tonette S. Rocco, graduated from The Ohio State University and serves as a professor in adult education and human resource development at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. She is a Houle Scholar, a member of the 2016 class of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame, 2016 Outstanding HRD Scholar and recipient of more than 25 awards for scholarship, mentoring, and service. Her other books include Challenging the Parameters of Adult Education: John Ohliger and the Quest for Social Democracy (with Grace, Jossey-Bass, 2009); Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing (with Tim Hatcher, Jossey-Bass, 2011); Handbook of HRD (Wiley, 2014; with Chalofsky and Morris) and the Routledge Companion to HRD (2014; with Poell and Roth); Disrupting adult and community education: Teaching, working, and learning in the periphery (SUNY, 2016; with Mizzi and Shore). She is Editor-in-Chief of New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development.

M Cecil Smith is a professor in the Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development in the College of Education and Human Sciences at West Virginia University, where he also previously served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education. In addition to publications in several leading journals in education, he has edited books on reading, adult literacy, adult learning and development, and teaching educational psychology. He earned a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Robert C. Mizzi is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is also former president of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education and the current editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. Robert has worked in over 15 countries as a researcher or educator, has authored over 50 articles on his research, and has published five books. Robert’s research in adult education includes topics relating to sexual and gender diversity, transnational identities and work, and social justice.

Lisa R. Merriweather is an associate professor of adult education at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and Co-founder and Senior Editor of Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education Journal. She received her PhD in Adult Education with a graduate certificate in Qualitative Inquiry from the University of Georgia in 2004. Her research interests include: anti-Black racism and race pedagogy; equity and social justice in adult education; and mentoring in doctoral education. Dr. Merriweather is dedicated to the project of communalism, and is guided by the spirits of Sankofa and Ubuntu that provide the ideological culturally informed grounding for the work in which she engages.

Joshua D. Hawley is Professor in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University. He is also Associate Director for the Center of Human Resource Research and Director of the Ohio Education Research Center. He received his Ed.D. and Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and M.A. and B.A. in History and Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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ISBN 13	9781032919089
ISBN 10	1032919086
Title	The Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education
Author	Tonette S Rocco
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2024-10-14
Number of pages	524
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