Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits -- Preface -- The Authors -- CHAPTER ONE: Adult Learning in Today's World -- The Social Context of Adult Learning -- Globalization -- The Knowledge Society -- Technology -- Changing Demographics -- The Adult Learner and Learning in Adulthood -- The Adult Learner -- Participation in Adult Learning Activities -- Settings Where Learning Occurs -- Chapter Summary -- Linking Theory and Practice: Activities and Resources -- CHAPTER TWO: Traditional Learning Theories -- What Is Learning? -- Learning Theories -- Behaviorism-Learning Is a Change in Behavior -- Humanism-Learning Is About the Development of the Person -- Cognitivism-Learning Is a Mental Process -- Social Cognitive Theory-Learning Is Social and Context Bound -- Constructivism-Learning Is Creating Meaning from Experience -- Chapter Summary -- Linking Theory and Practice: Activities and Resources -- CHAPTER THREE: Andragogy: The Art and Science of Helping Adults Learn -- Before Andragogy -- Assumptions About Adult Learners -- The Learner's Self-Concept -- Experience -- Readiness to Learn -- Problem-Centered Orientation -- Internal Motivation -- The Need to Know -- Andragogy Today -- Chapter Summary -- Linking Theory and Practice: Activities and Resources -- CHAPTER FOUR: Self-Directed Learning -- The Nature of Self-Directed Learning -- Defining SDL -- Goals of SDL -- Myths of SDL -- The Process of Self-Directed Learning -- SDL as a Personal Attribute -- Self-Directed Learning in Various Contexts -- Assessing Self-Directed Learning -- Critiques of Self-Directed Learning -- Chapter Summary -- Linking Theory and Practice: Activities and Resources -- Exhibit 4.1: Independent Study Learning Contract -- General Information -- Contract -- CHAPTER FIVE: Transformative Learning -- What Is Transformative Learning?.

The Cognitive Perspective -- Beyond Rational -- Social Change -- Sites of Transformative Learning -- Individual -- Classroom and Online -- Workplace -- Community -- Promoting and Evaluating Transformative Learning -- Concluding Thoughts, Unresolved Issues -- Chapter Summary -- Linking Theory and Practice: Activities and Resources -- CHAPTER SIX: Experience and Learning -- On the Relationship Between Experience and Learning -- Models of Experiential Learning -- Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle -- Three Models from Adult Educators -- Reflective Practice and Situated Cognition -- Reflective Practice -- Situated Cognition -- Communities of Practice -- Chapter Summary -- Linking Theory and Practice: Activities and Resources -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Body and Spirit in Learning -- Embodied Learning -- What Is Embodied Learning? -- Embodied Learning in Practice -- The Spirit in Learning -- Spirituality and Learning -- Spirituality in Adult Education -- Chapter Summary -- Linking Theory and Practice: Activities and Resources -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Motivation and Learning -- Motivation Defined -- Motivation Theory -- Motivation in Adult Education -- McClusky's Theory of Margin -- Wlodkowski's Integrated Levels of Adult Motivation -- Chapter Summary -- Linking Theory and Practice: Activities and Resources -- CHAPTER NINE: The Brain and Cognitive Functioning -- Brain Basics -- Memory -- Intelligence -- Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence -- Gardner's Multiple Intelligences (MI) -- Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence -- Goleman's Emotional Intelligence -- Cognitive Development and Wisdom -- Chapter Summary -- Linking Theory and Practice: Activities and Resources -- CHAPTER TEN: Adult Learning in the Digital Age -- The Technology Context -- The Connected Adult Learner -- Demand for eLearning -- The Digital Divide -- Adult Learners in the Digital Age.

Adult Learners Online -- Effectiveness of Online Learning -- Navigating the Negative Aspects and Challenges of the Technology Context -- The Teaching-Learning Context of the Digital Age -- Helping Learners Become Savvy Consumers of Online Learning -- How Technology Is Changing and Challenging Our Roles as Educators -- Chapter Summary -- Linking Theory and Practice: Activities and Resources -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Critical Thinking and Critical Perspectives -- Being Critical -- Critical Theory -- Critical Perspectives -- Postmodernism -- Feminist Pedagogy -- Critical Race Theory (CRT) -- Queer Studies -- Multiculturalism -- Critical Management Studies (CMS) -- Critical Human Resource Development (CHRD) -- Critical Thinking -- Defining Critical Thinking -- Reflecting on Assumptions and Beliefs -- Critiquing Thought and Action -- Connecting Individual Experience to Broader Social Conditions -- Critical Action-Mindful and Timely Intervention -- Creating a Critical Classroom -- Introducing Critical Theory -- Facilitating Critical Thinking -- Taking Critical Action -- Chapter Summary -- Linking Theory and Practice: Activities and Resources -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Culture and Context, Theory and Practice in Adult Learning -- Culture and Context -- Culture and Learning -- Culturally Relevant Teaching -- The Relationship Between Theory and Practice -- A Framework for Adult Learning -- Chapter Summary -- Linking Theory and Practice: Activities and Resources -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.