Product Description: Beyond the undergraduate and graduate levels, education has traditionally ceased when students enter the workforce as professionals in their respective fields. However, recent trends in education have found that adult students beyond the traditional university age often benefit greatly from returning to further their education...read more

Product Description: One of the "Best Books of 2011" from the Center for Optimal Adult DevelopmentAmid fluctuations in today's job markets and economies, the importance of learning across the lifespan has become a point of emphasis for governments and employers throughout the world...read more

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Product Description: Sponsored by the American Association of Adult & Continuing Education "This monumental work is a testimony to the science of adult education and the skills of Wilson and Hayes. It is a veritable feast for nourishing our understanding of the current field of adult education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This Encyclopedia deals with the financing and organization of adult education and continuing vocational training throughout the world. The volume provides extensive coverage of lifespan development, cognition, adult learning, and theories and methods for the teaching of adults both now and in the future...read more

Product Description: The seventh edition in a series of handbooks on adult and continuing education. The handbook brings together forty-eight original chapters by experts from diverse areas of adult and continuing education, including planning and administration, evaluation, policy, and other key areas, to provide an up-to-date, comprehensive guide for effective practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Lifelong Education for Adults: An International Handbook is the first work intended to offer international, encyclopedic coverage of research and studies in the whole field of adult education. With 127 articles written by international specialists, this work will be an invaluable reference source for all those who are engaged in educational activities for adults, either as full-time planners/administrators of educational programmes, or part-time adult educators...read more