Developing Programs in Adult Education
A Conceptual Programming Model
Second Edition
The Second Edition of Developing Programs in Adult Education will serve as an indispensable guide for current and prospective adult educators in planning, designing/implementing, and evaluating/accounting for adult education programs. Like the successful First Edition, this revised and expanded volume presents a conceptual programming model that draws from many concepts, constructs, and theories generated by adult educators and other scholars in closely allied disciplines. The updated model, field tested and validated, enhances and elaborates on the complex contextual relationships and processual actions represented in the original. The authors offer illustrative applications within varied organizational contexts and provide a panorama of both macro- and micro-perspectives and actions of a program planning process, with examples from various fields of adult education practice. This innovative text is the definitive authority on one of the few theoretical models of the programming process based in systems theory merged with the practice ecology of adult education.
"This is the premier text for adult education coursework. I use it in my teacher education classes. Edgar Boone et al. did good work in outlining the philosophy and goals of adult ed." — Barry Croom, University of Georgia, Tifton
1. Introduction
2. A Review of Major Programming Models in Adult Education
3. A Theoretical Approach to Programming
4. Planning
5. Design and Implementation
6. Evaluation and Accountability
7. Programming: A Challenge to Adult Education