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These proceedings contain 47 papers presented at a conference focusing on nonformal adult education. Papers deal with 12 adult/continuing education content areas. These content areas and representative paper focuses are adult development (the role of gerontology programs in life transitions, the impact of development on adult learning), aging (life satisfaction and self-directedness, the relevance of Freire's approach to education to older adult education, nonformal education as an empowering process, educational benefits to students in lifecycle transitions, community adult education, neighborhood programming, working class learners, out-of-school education), corrections education, extension education (planning, adult learning as measured by dietary behavior change, effect of student involvement on student attitudes), history of adult education, institutional development (importance of topics in pre-retirement training, a model educational alliance), international education (adult education in West Germany, adult basic education teachers in Kuwait), learning theory (implications for delivery systems, comparison of adult learning theories), literacy (oral subculture membership of illiterate adults, factors influencing General Educational Development test scores), philosophy (tuition assistance, selection of adult education doctoral degree graduate students, impact of research and development, work and participation in vocational training), technology (cable television, audio conferencing), and volunteerism (types of nonformal education, volunteerism as adult education, volunteer characteristics). (YLB)

The 48 papers in this proceedings focus on aspects of non-formal adult education including international comparative adult education. The papers are: "Lifelong Learning in Perspective" (Knox); "Women in their Thirties: The In-Between Generation" (Caffarella, Freeman); "Development in Women: An Analysis of the Appropriateness of an Age-Related Life Phase Typology" (Knott); "Researching the Relationship between Life Satisfaction of Older Adults and Their Participation in Volunteer Activities" (Deaton, Blieszner); "The Role of Religious Institutions in the Lifelong Learning Process in Roxbury, Massachusetts from 1900-1980" (Dickens); "Political Adult Education: A Study of Community Legal Education in One Major City" (Marx-Singer); "Perceptions of Their Adolescence Held by Adult Incarcerated Males: Implications for Adult Education" (Dowling); "The Measurement of Organizational Climate in the Washington State University Cooperative Extension" (Fortner et al.); "Commitment and Systematic Approach Yield Progress in Civil Rights Compliance" (Gerken et al.); "Testing an Alternate Approach to Extension for Limited Resource Farm Families with Emphasis on Developing Countries" (Mercado, Carter); "Benefits of Noncredit Adult Education in Extension Pride and Non-Pride Groups" (Oaklief); "Factors for Agricultural Extension Success: Organizational, Interactive, and Contextual" (Rivera); "Class Attitudes, Adult Industrial Education, and the 'New South' in Richmond, Virginia, 1884 to 1904" (Craver); "Nikolai Grundtvig: Eduard Lindeman's Denmark Connection" (Stewart); "Emerging Paradigms and Forms of Adult Education: A Classification Scheme" (Stubblefield); "Refugee Adult Education: A Case Study of an Appropriate Educational Approach in a Technical Society" (Mattocks); "The HRD Professional: A Macromotion Study" (Shipp); "Colleague Coaching to Support Lifelong Learning on the Job: Critical Issues and Implications for Expanded Practice" (Yakowicz); "The Implementation-Replication Extension System: A New, Low-Cost Fuelwood Energy Extension Strategy for Developing Countries" (Belson); "The Cooperative Movement and Greece's Development" (Boucouvalas); "The Role of Adult Education in Development" (Cookson); "The Involvement of Continental European Universities in Continuing Education" (Kulich); "Training for Taking Over: Three Asian Models for Educational Fieldworkers" (Marsick); "Professional Training through Collaborative Research: An Egyptian Case Study" (Rowntree); "The Distance Learning Program at Ikipujung Pandang, Indonesia: Problems and Recommendations for Its Improvement" (Sahide et al.); "Agricultural Extension for the Progressive or Marginal Farmer? The T and V System in Some Sri Lankan Villages (Schneider-Silwa); "A Model of Culture for Cross-Cultural Adult Education: Examples from Agricultural Research Management Training" (Werge); "An Analysis of Adult Learning Styles Using the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator" (Campbell); "Critical Review of Adult Learning Principles from a Self-Directed Learner's Point of View" (Danis, Tremblay); "Effects of Learning Styles and Learning Environment by Levels of Learning" (Korhonen, McCall); "The Relationship between Locus of Control and Value Orientation in Adult Learners" (Londoner et al.); "An Investigation of the Occupational Reading Demands of the Plumbing Trade" (Chang); "Assessing the Impact of Adult Literacy Education" (Copeland et al.); "Interpersonal and Institutional Support: The Impact of Significant Others" (Lewis); "Two Years After the GED Tests: Employment, Education, and Training Activities of GED Examinees" (Reed, Malizio); "Marginal Adult Educators: The Part-Time Instructors of Adults" (Draper); "Notes and Comments on the Panel 'Lifelong Learning--A Problem of Definition, Policy, and Value'" (Martell); "Government and Adult Education in Canada" (Thomas); "An Analysis of the Policies and Issues Which Resulted in the Formation of the Maryland Fire-Rescue Education and Training Commission Using the Systems Theory Model of Policy Formation" (Walz); "Clerical Women as Returning Students" (Bomboy); "Graduate Adult Education as a Socio-Cultural Product: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Professional Preparation in the U.S. and U.K." (Brookfield); "Deterrents to Public Participation in Adult Education" (Darkenwald, Valentine); "Market Research: What Continuing Educators Can Learn From Current Students" (Hanniford); "Competence and Careers: A Study Relating Competencies Acquired in College to Career Options for the Liberal Arts Graduate" (Schall et al.); "How Mandatory Is Mandatory Continuing Education?" (Jahns et al.); "An Application of Social Network Analysis to the Planning of Continuing Professional Education Programs" (West); "Using Microcomputers to Facilitate Qualitative Data Management" (Fingeret); and "Development of a Model for Designing and Evaluating Microcomputer Courses" (Hockaday et al.). (YLB)

These conference proceedings contain 55 papers and symposia presented at the conference whose focus was on nonformal adult education. Papers deal with adult/continuing education concerns such as participatory research, ABLE (Adult Basic Level Education) parenting, army basic skills educational development, learning contracts, volunteerism, literacy, extension education for small farm operators, retired faculty as a resource, use of television for learning, learning, Personalized System of Instruction in adult basic education, aging, community-based learning, stress arousal measurement, effects of a peer counseling training program on older adults, death education, impact of older students on undergraduates, stress, self-directed learning, competency-based adult reading management system, community education, inservice education, adult reading strategies, psychosocial needs of low-literacy adults, consumer education, lifelong learning and women professionals, counseling services, distance education, satellite learning centers, and women's career development. Other areas include teaching, policy, community development, international education, and research methodology. Although most papers focus on conditions in the United States, adult education in modern Greece, an extension program for young families in Finland and a participatory agricultural extension approach in Tanzania are discussed. (YLB)

The following 26 papers, with abstracts and references, are included in these proceedings: "Panel: Continuing Professional Education in Cooperative Extension" (Robert L. Bruce, G. L. Carter, Jr., Ronald Jimmerson, Joan S. Thomson); "New Farm Families: Implications for Extension Educators" (Jane W. McGonigal, Robert L. Bruce); "The Experience of Learning for the Sake of Learning in Adulthood" (Lynne Y. Asmuth); "Advances in the Neurosciences" (Marcie Boucouvalas); "Normative and Predictive Generalizations in Adult Education Research" (Robert F. Carbone); "Beginning Researchers' Perspectives and Approaches to the Planning Phase of Research" (Jennifer Knowles, Ronald Jimmerson); "Integrating Andragogy with Current Research on Teaching Effectiveness" (Billy E. Ross); "Adult Education vs. Education of Adults" (Harold W. Stubblefield); "Learning Opportunities for Volunteers" (Phyllis C. Wiederhoeft); "A Self-Directed Learning Program within Continuing Professional Education" (Judith K. DeJoy, Helen Mills); "Retirement Planning" (Shirley L. Foutz); "A Matrix Approach to Market Segmentation and Positioning for Continuing Professional Education Program Development" (Mary Elaine Kiener); "Continuing Education for University Faculty Members" (Susan F. Kromholz, Sally M. Johnstone); "The Municipal Clerk" (Michael T. Lavin, Donald Levitan); "A Long-Term, Multiple Stage Needs Assessment Process for Program Development" (Joan L. Parrett, Deborah R. Klevans); "Weekend Colleges in the United States" (Jeanie Roundtree-Wyly, Lloyd Korhonen); "Conducting an Effective Retention Study" (Dolores F. Sapienza, Richard S. Davis); "Educational Services to Isolated Locations Using State of the Art Technology" (Joseph D. Smith, David Halfen); "Development of a National Manpower Plan for the Malawi Ministry of Agriculture" (Thomas F. Trail); "The Metamorphoses of Adult Learners" (Dennis E. Campbell); "Use of the KAI [Kirton Adaption Innovation Inventory] in Times of Program and Organizational Change" (Shirley H. Gerken); "Understanding Adult Reentry as a Change Process" (Doe Hentschel); "Self-Reliant Behaviors and Value Orientations of Adult Learners Engaged in Continuing Professional Education" (Carroll A. Londoner, Fredric Linder, David Bauer); "The Influence of Adult Students on Faculty as Learners" (Barbara Rich); "Comparing Agricultural Extension Systems" (William M. Rivera); and "Learning To Think in Service of Improving Professional Practice" (Albert K. Wiswell). (KC)