Promotional materials and activities for Australia's Adult Learners Week, which are shaped by a variety of stakeholders , include media strategies and a website. Activities are evaluated using a market research company and website and telephone hotline statistics. (SK)

Learning to be literate involves understanding unequal power relations that privilege some literacy practices over others. A deficit model associates literacy with skills and motivation, emphasizes standardized literacy accomplishments, and prescribes outcomes. These practices discount the validity of individuals' definitions of and uses for…

The extent to which practitioner inquiry groups function as democratic learning communities depends on how facilitators negotiate power relations. Negotiation issues include social, organizational, and group identity as well as the public identity of practitioner inquiry. (Contains 24 references.) (SK)

Develops a framework listing ways to create learner connections that includes (1) formative processes initiated by the institute or the learner; (2) aspects of connected learning (curriculum, program design, interpersonal and individual elements); and (3) outcomes (learning, growth and development, institutional). (Contains 54 references.) (SK)

Discussion of online learning focuses on a study that was conducted among adult learners to investigate learners' interaction with online communities. Highlights include the concept of community; online learning communities; the importance of meeting face to face; building and maintaining community; and implications for future research. (LRW)

A survey of Georgia physical therapists received responses from 74.7 percent. Results identified the following motivations for continuing education: knowledge, meeting licensure requirements, and advancing in the present job. (SK)

Three popular theories of adult learning have not been fully exploited: (1) Cross' Chain-of-Response Model; (2) Knox's proficiency theory; and (3) McCluskey's Theory of Margin. (SK)

Adult education research and theory largely ignore or neglect the relationship between spiritual values and adult education. Individual spirituality and spiritual tradition influence adult learners' participation, interpretation, motivation, and success. (SK)

Summarizes themes of this issue on the Internet and adult learning. Discerns new directions as more adults gain access, technology improves, and learning systems become more distributed. (SK)

Use of videotapes and questions from a trained inquirer can help reduce memory distortion that can occur in reflection. The Interpersonal Process Recall approach increases the reliability of memory and the exploration of events in depth when ambiguous interpersonal interactions are involved. (Contains 29 references.) (SK)

Andragogy and self-directed learning were early attempts to define adult education as a unique field of practice. Both have been criticized for focusing on individual learners while ignoring sociohistorical context. Both continue to contribute to adult education theory and practice. (Contains 44 references.) (SK)

This summative chapter reviews the models and theories of adult development discussed in this issue. Adult educators are challenged to see what has been less visible, hear what has not been heard, and think creatively about the connection between development and learning. (SK)

The following is a summary of the authors five-stage model of adult skill acquisition, developed in collaboration with Hubert L. Dreyfus. An earlier version of this article appeared in chapter 1 of "Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer" (1986, Free Press, New York).

This report outlines the Ministry of Education's achievements during the fiscal year ending March 31, 2011. It reflects the Ministry's progress over the past year; in particular their efforts to expand early learning programs, introduce flexibility in their education system through personalized learning, and inspire life-long learning for British…

The purpose of this research study was to investigate the phenomenon of the conflicting roles, such as parent, spouse, employee, caregiver, and community member/volunteer, associated with the lives of nontraditional college students and to reveal how these conflicting role obligations influence these students' persistence toward the attainment of…