This practical guide to the process of planning educational programs for adults explains the key challenges of planning in the real world of conflicting interests and power relations. Part 1 draws attention to the importance of program planning practice in adult education (Chapter 1) and offers a model of what adult educators actually do when planning programs (Chapter 2). Chapter 2 also reviews three other models of planning and shows how the book's model further develops important elements of all three. Three chapters in Part 2 show how three educational programs were actually constructed in three different types of organizational settings: a business (Chapter 3), a higher education institution (Chapter 4), and a social action agency (Chapter 5). Each case consists of an introduction to the planners and their organizational contexts, an analysis of the interests under negotiation, and a final section showing how negotiation about the interests directly produced the actual program and affected its purposes, audience, content, and format. Part 3 offers an approach to planning in which educators have a clear understanding of the social context, power relationships, and interests through which the program is being constructed (Chapter 6), a commitment to involve in the planning the people who have a legislative interest in the program (Chapter 7), and a repertoire of technical, political, and ethical understanding to negotiate responsibly when constructing the program (Chapter 8). The last chapter discusses understanding planning as a social practice. Appendixes include 122 references and an index. (YLB)