These proceedings contain 46 papers. Brief English-language titles include: "Some Research Findings on Study Methods in Adult Distance Education" (Bajtelsmit); "Self Planned Professional Learning among Public School Adult Education Directors" (Beder, et al.); "Participation in Study Circles and the Creation of Analysis" (Beder, et al.); "Participation in Study Circles and the Creation of Individual Resources" (Borgstrom, Olofsson); "An Adult Basic Education Oriented Form of the Education Participation Scale" (Boshier); "Purposes of Adult Education" (Boshier, Nickerson); "Methodolatory in Adult Education Research" (Brookfield); "The Perry Scheme: A New Perspective on Adult Learners" (Cameron); "Adult Acquisition of Formal Operations" (Charuhas); "Beyond 1984: Projecting Participation in Adult Education" (Chimene); "The Educational Orientation Scale" (Clemmer); "Principles of Adult Learning Scale" (Conti); "Determinants of Adult Education Participation of Low Income Adults" (Cookson); "Organizing Packinghouse Workers in Chicago, 1937-1943" (Davenport); "Educational Potential of Interactive Video Technology" (Deshler, Gay); "A Case for the Liberal Arts" (Duguid); "New Test for Brain Hemisphere Preference" (Even, Lux); "Personality Traits and Perceived Benefit Associated with Different Approaches of Medical Students to Self-Directed Learning Projects" (Fox, West); "Images of Interdependence: Meaning and Movement in Learning/Teaching" (Griffith); "Democratization of the Knowledge Production in Adult Education" (Hoghielm); "The Relevance of the Future in Adult Education" (Ilsley); "An Analysis of Perceptions of the Practices of Adult Educators from Five Different Settings" (James); "Retirees Who Are Positive Give Advice to Those Who Are Negative" (Kreitlow, Kreitlow); "An Evaluation Model for an Intervention in a Community Hospital" (Lawler); "Manpower Training and Disadvantaged Adults" (Lawrence); "A Detailed Analysis of GED Examinee and High School Senior Performance on the Tests of General Educational Development" (Malizio, Whitney); "Use and Utility of Information Channels for Self-Help Advocacy Groups" (McCreary); "Culture, Cognition, and Adult Second-Language Literacy" (Orem); "Institution-related Motivational Predictors of the Penchant for Learning in the Natural Societal Setting" (Pipke); "Philosophies of Adult Education and American Values" (Podeschi); "Adult Development and Adult Beginning Reading Behaviors" (Schumacher); "Qualitative Differences between Field Dependent Nursing Students' Perceptions of Learning Experiences and Learning Patterns" (Simpson, Walker); "Correlating Ego Identity Development with Cognitive Processes Used in Question Formation" (Smith); "Needs Assessment in Adult Education" (Sork); "A Phenomenology of the Will to Learn" (Stanage); "A Power-Analytic Investigation of Research in Adult Education, 1970-1982" (West); and "Adult Education Faculty Characteristics, Activities, Satisfactions, and Career Attitudes" (Willie, et al.). (YLB)