Sharan B. Merriam

Lisa M. Baumgartner

Rosemary S. Caffarella

In this updated landmark book, the authors have gathered the seminal work and most current thinking on adult learning into one volume. Learning in Adulthood addresses a wide range of topics including: Who are adult learners? How do adults learn? Why are adults involved in learning activities? How does the social context shape the learning that adults are engaged in? How does aging affect learning ability?

A Comprehensive Guide

Learning in Adulthood

a practical guide

Planning programs for adult learners

Sandra Ratcliff Daffron

Strengthen your adult education program planning with this essential guide Planning Programs for Adult Learners: A Practical Guide, 4th Edition is an interactive, practical, and essential guide for anyone involved with planning programs for adult learners. Containing extensive updates, refinements, and revisions to this celebrated book, this edition prepares those charged with planning programs for adult learners across a wide variety of settings. Spanning a variety of crucial subjects, this book will teach readers how to: Plan, organize, and complete other administrative tasks with helpful templates and practical guides Focus on challenges of displacement, climate change, economic dislocation, and inequality Plan programs using current and emerging digital delivery tools and techniques including virtual and augmented reality Planning Programs for Adult Learners provides an international perspective and includes globally relevant examples and research that will inform and transform your program planning process. Perfect for adult educators and participants in continuing education programs for adults, the book will also be illuminating for graduate students in fields including education, nursing, human resource development, and more. Dr. Sandra Ratcliff Daffron, has over 30 years of experience as a program planner, professional educator, project and program director, administrator, and organizational executive in the United States and the Middle East. She has worked extensively as a continuing professional educator and trainer with lawyers, judges, teachers, correctional educators, physicians, military trainers and graduate students. Sandra Daffron has planned and implemented programs, workshops and conferences on many topics from judicial education to the future of the courts for almost all State Supreme Courts and administrative offices of the courts for judges and judicial staff in the US. She is professor emeritus of adult and continuing education at Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington and co-authored the 3rd edition of "Planning Programs for Adult Learners" in 2013 with Rosemary Caffarella.

A Practical Guide

Planning Programs for Adult Learners

Rosemary S. Caffarella

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