Adult Education and the Contested Terrain of Public Policy. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (21st, Toronto, Ontario May 30-31 and June 1, 2002). = L'Education des Adultes et le Domaine Controverse des Affaires Publiques. Actes Annuel de L'Association Canadienne pour L'Etude de L'Education des Adultes (21eme, Toronto, Ontario, 30-31 Mai et 1 Juin, 2002).

This document contains the texts of 57 papers, 10 roundtables, and 7 symposia from a Canadian conference on adult education and public policy. The following are among the papers included: "Childhood, Schooling Family and Community" (Margarida Aguiar); "Voices Inside" (Irene C. Baird); "Beyond Personal Agency" (Rose Barg); "Participatory Research, Education and Rural Farmers" (Bijoy P. Barua); "La Valorisation et la Reconnaissance des Apprentissages Professionels Informels du Point du Vue de l'Autoformation" (Olivier Bataille); "Why Distance Education?" (Patricia Beatty-Guenter); "The Body's Tale" (Valerie-Lee Chapman); "Adult Education and the Production of Knowledge for Politics" (Janet Conway); "Lifelong Learning or Re-Training for Life" (Jane Cruikshank); "Policy, Accountability, and Practice in Adult Literacy Work" (Richard Darville); "Vocation in Adult Education" (Jane Dawson); "Computer-Mediated Instruction" (John M. Dirkx, Edward W. Taylor); "If You Knew Now What We Didn't Know Then" (Catherine C. Dunlop); "Career Development and Advancement Patterns of Aboriginal Executives in the Canada Federal Public Service" (Rocky J. Dwyer); "Changing Policy from the Inside-out" (Karen Edge, Marilyn Laiken); "Examining Practice, Understanding Experience" (John Egan); "Gypsy Scholars" (Tara Fenwick); "The Limits of 'Informal Learning'" (Rachel Gorman); "Lifelong Learning" (Andre P. Grace); "The Experiences and Practice of Adult Educators in Addressing Spirituality within the Workplace" (Janet Groen); "Global, Local and Individual Learning Environments" (Charmaine Ing); "Informing Policy: (Cheryl Jeffs); "Women's Ways of Protesting" (Dorothy A. Lander); "Learning in a Trade Union" (Susanne Kopsen, Staffan Larsson); "Exploring Teaching Roles and Responsibilities in Adult Literacy Education" (Karen M. Magro); "Learning and the Law" (Susan E. McDonald); "The Role of the Outsider in Creating Education Policy" (Katherine McManus); "Constructing Resistance" (Kiran Mirchandani, Bonnie Slade); "Policy and Learning Program for the Malaysian Elderly" (Mazanah Muhamad, Mazalan Kamis); "Teaching Choice" (Michael Newman); "Creating Access" (Ruth Price); "Responding to '911'" (Timothy Pyrch); "The Original Raging Grannies" (Carole Roy); "An Alternative Consciousness" (Stephanie Rutherford); "Learning in the Union Local" (Peter H. Sawchuk); "The Relationship between Espoused and Enacted Beliefs about Teaching Adults" (Edward W. Taylor, John M. Dirkx); and "Understanding the Zone of Proximal Development in Adult Literacy Learning" (Maurice Taylor, Judy King, Christine Pinsent-Johnson). Many papers include substantial bibliographies. (MN)