Five themes emerged from critical reflection in journals, conversations, autobiographies of 311 adult educators: impostorship (unworthiness to participate in critical thought), cultural suicide (risk of exclusion), lost innocence (from certainty to multiplistic reasoning), roadrunning (incremental struggles with new modes of thought), and…

Finding that British researchers are believed to use qualitative methods while North Americans favor quantitative measurement in adult education enquiry, the author examines substantive research concerns and research publication in the United States, Britain, and Canada and concludes that there is some validity to the stereotype. (Availability:…

Focuses on the curriculum, methods, and intellectual orientations of postgraduate training for adult educators found within British and American universities. It argues that we should regard the methods, curricula, modes of evaluation, and intellectual terrain of postgraduate adult education as sociocultural products. (CT)