Papers in this volume include: "Retirement Learning" (Adair); "Effect of Literacy on Personal Income" (Blunt); "Popular Discourse Concerning Women and AIDS" (Boshier); "John Steinbeck's Learning Project" (Brockett); "Faculty Careers of Professors of Adult Education" (Caffarella); "Racism in Canada" (Carriere); "Perspectives on Program Planning in Adult Education" (Cervero, Wilson); "Inclusive Language and Perspective Transformation" (Coffman); "Impact of Critical Social Theory on Adult Education" (Collard, Law); "Assessing Adult Learning Strategies" (Conti, Fellenz); "Class Age Composition and Academic Achievement" (Darkenwald et al.); "Redesign of Continuing Education as a 'Practical Problem'" (Dirkx et al.); "Framework for Understanding Developmental Change among Older Adults" (Fisher); "Value of Literacy for Rural Elderly" (Freer); "Professional Women as Self-Assessing Adult Learners" (Greenland); "Democratizing Knowledge" (Group for Collaborative Inquiry); "Contributions of African American Women to Nonformal Education during the Civil Rights Movement" (Gyant); "Gender-Related Differences in Adult Classroom Behavior" (Hayes); "Investigations into the Human Phenomenon of Commitment" (Ilsley); "Early Human Resource Development Work" (Jacobson); "AFS Volunteer Resources Study" (Jones-Ilsley, Hansel); "Transformation and Self-Renewal at Midlife" (Karpiak); "Critical Analysis of 'Adult Education Quarterly'" (Kim); "Lindeman and the Meaning of Adult Education" (Long et al.); "Deconstruction and Its Implications for Adult Education" (Melichar, Lumpkin); "Learning from Life Experience" (Merriam, Clark); "Subjects as Partners" (Merrifield, White); "Phenomenological Investigation of Self-Will and Relationship to Achievement in African-American Women" (Peterson); "Knowles and the Mid-Century Shift in Philosophy of Adult Education" (Podeschi); "Exploring Chinese Conceptions of Learning and Teaching" (Pratt); "Shaping Literacy" (Quigley); "Analysis of Three Strategic Training Roles" (Redding); "Deterrents to Participation in Compensatory Adult Education in South Africa" (Reddy); "What Do Adult College Students Want in an Instructor?" (Ross-Gordon et al.); "Hilda Worthington Smith" (Saul, Bernhardt); "Education and Working Class Radicalism" (Schied); "Personal Transformation through Participation in Social Action" (Scott); "Gender Differences in Faculty Perceptions of Academic Career Enhancers and Barriers" (Simpson); "Forgotten Adult Educators" (Smith); "Return to History" (Stein); "Sketches of the Landscape" (Warren); "Examining the Relationship between Pragmatism and Social Action in American Adult Education" (Wilson); and "Adult Education Movement in the 1950s" (Zacharakis-Jutz). (YLB)