Lifelong Learning Research Conference Proceedings (7th, College Park, Maryland, February 21-22, 1985).

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)