Reports the author's experiences at a convention on school reform. Examines the educational establishment's search for certainty in generalizable formulae. Reveals irony in reforms that deny or subvert human qualities in an effort to create predictable and manageable institutions. Stresses that such human qualities are the only predictable…

This book examines the philosophical foundations of adult education (AE). The following topics are discussed: philosophy of AE (philosophy and action in theory and practice and philosophy for adult educators); liberal AE (historical development, liberal education and the educated person, broad scope, process, liberal education of adults, Great…

All research on curriculum development incorporates implicit assumptions about the nature of persons and the nature of learning. These assumptions fall into two major categories: (1) psychological assumptions, based on empirical descriptions; and (2) logical (conceptual) assumptions, which give explanatory accounts of meaning. Most curriculum…