Annual Adult Education Research Conference Proceedings (38th, Stillwater, Oklahoma, May 16-18, 1997).

The following are among 50 papers included: "The Politics of Planning Culturally Relevant AIDS Education for African-American Women" (Archie-Booker); "Developing White Consciousness through a Transformative Learning Process" (Barlas); "Executive Businesswomen's Learning in the Context of Organizational Culture" (Bierma); "The Myth of the Universal Adult Educator" (Brown); "Interactions in Distance Education" (Burnham, Walden); "Women's Experience of Academic Collaboration" (Clark, Watson); "Measurement of Participation in Adult Education" (Collins, Brick, Kim); "Learning Strategies in the Corporate Setting" (Conti, Kolody, Schneider); "Learning within a Social Movement" (Cunningham, Curry); "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's GED (General Educational Development) Graduates' Progress" (Dean); "Orchestration of Learning Style Differences and Other Variables in an Action Learning Experience" (Dilworth); "An Exploratory Study of the Social and Personal Dynamics that Deter Underserved Women from Participating in Adult Education Activities" (Hall, Donaldson); "Researching Professional Practice" (Donaldson, Kuhne); "Critical Thinking, Developmental Learning, and Adaptive Flexibility in Organizational Leaders" (Duchesne); "Participant Perceptions of Residential Learning" (Fleming); "Identification of the Workplace Basic Skills Necessary for Effective Job Performance by Entry-Level Workers in Small Businesses in Oklahoma" (Harris); "Participation and Retention Factors Relating to Black Reentry Graduate and Undergraduate Women in the College of Education" (Johnson-Bailey, Brown); "Factors that Affect the Epistemology of Group Learning" (Marsick, Kasl); "Radical Pedagogy in Action" (Kaufmann); "How Adult Experience as a Supervising Decision-Maker Can Inhibit Learning" (Lauderdale); "Academic vs. Integrated Functional-Context Literacy Programs" (Martin); "Voluntary Organizations and Nonformal Adult Education in Hungary" (Pandak); "A Sociocultural Perspective of Knowing" (Reybold); "Knowledge as 'Quality Non-Conformance'" (Schied et al.); "A Replication Study of the Attitudes of Selected Academics and Decision-Makers towards Adult Students" (Smeby, Sisco); "The Effectiveness of Total Quality Management" (Smith, Lewis); "Doing Cross-Cultural Research in Adult Education" (Sparks); "Adult Education On-Line" (Spencer); "Synergic Inquiry" (Tang); "Implicit Memory and Transformative Learning Theory" (Taylor); "Innovation as Knowledge and Learning" (Taylor); "Teaching across Borders" (Tisdell, Perry); and "Beyond Disciplinary Consumption in Program Planning Classes" (Wilson, Cervero). (MN)