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| Editor's Notes | |
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| Andragogy and Self-Directed Learning: Pillars of Adult Learning Theory | |
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| Andragogy and self-directed learning, two foundational theories of adult learning, continue to guide our understanding of how adults learn | |
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| An Update on Transformational Learning | |
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| In the 1990s, empirical research on transformational learning has expanded the theory proposed by Freire and Mezirow three decades ago | |
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| Informal and Incidental Learning | |
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| The vast majority of adult learning is informal and incidental; the authors present their revised model of this type of learning | |
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| A New Look at Women's Learning | |
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| Myths and stereotypes of women's learning are examined, and a socially-constructed notion of gender is proposed for understanding women's learning | |
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| Context-Based Adult Learning | |
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| Learning is a tool-dependent, social activity embedded in the context in which it occurs. Situated cognition, cognitive apprenticeship, and communities of practice make up this theoretical perspective | |
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| Critical and Postmodern Perspectives on Adult Learning | |
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| Critical and postmodern theorists examine how the social construction of knowledge and relationships based on power intersect with learning in adulthood | |
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| The Power of Feelings: Emotion, Imagination, and the Construction of Meaning in Adult Learning | |
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| Personally significant and meaningful learning is grounded in the adult's emotional, imaginative connection with the self and with the broader social world | |
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| The Brain and Consciousness: Sources of Information for Understanding Adult Learning | |
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| Principles of learning can be derived from new research on how the brain functions and new understandings of the brain's relationship to mind and consciousness | |
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| Off the Beaten Path: Some Creative Approaches to Adult Learning | |
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| Two of the newest approaches to adult learning are discussed-learning through our physical body, or what is known as somatic learning, and learning through stories of our experiences, or what is called narrative knowing | |
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| Something Old, Something New: Adult Learning Theory for the Twenty-First Century | |
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| This concluding chapter summarizes the various perspectives represented by chapters in this volume and finishes with an assessment of adult learning theory today | |
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| Index | |