Strategies of response for HIV/AIDS education should account for structural relations of power, be culturally relevant to its audiences, and have the community as the focus of the intervention.

Crucial elements of successful cross-cultural mentoring are trust, understanding of the impact of racism, and awareness of the oppositional perspective of marginalized groups. Issues in cross-cultural mentoring include the struggle for learning and power, the mentor as learner, and both seeing and forgetting race. (Contains 21 references.) (SK)

Trends that have changed continuing professional education (CPE) include huge growth in workplace-provided continuing education, distance education provided by universities and professional associations, more collaboration, and regulation of professional practice through CPE. Educators must ask whether their purpose is updating knowledge or…

Effective workshops must pay attention to power relationships that do not disappear in the workshop setting. The myth of the generic teacher and learner and the phenomena of gender, race, ethnicity, and class must be accounted for. (SK)

Planning is a social activity in which educators negotiate personal and organizational interests in constructing programs. Four concepts encompass a planning model: power, interests, negotiation, and responsibility. (SK)

Summarizing the case studies and critique in this issue, the authors conclude that planners must (1) learn to negotiate power and interests responsibly because their actions validate whose interests matter; (2) anticipate sources of support and opposition; (3) determine power relationships; and (4) know to whom they are responsible. (SK)

Collins believes that adult and continuing education should resist further professionalization, which undermines its moral force and emancipatory intent. Cervero considers that educators should shape the meaning and outcome of the process of professionalization for practice. (SK)