These proceedings contain the texts of the following 44 papers: "Adult Development in Midlife, Childless Women" (Rita Keneipp); "Analysis of the Relationship between Cognitive Style (Field Dependence-Field Independence) and Level of Learning" (Eugene Tootle); "Reconceptualizing Adult Education Participation" (Peter Cookson); "Adulthood: Definitions and Perspectives" (Breda Bova and Rebecca Phillips); "Educating Incarcerated Adults" (Rajendra Kumar Srivastava); "Self-Direction: A Clarification of Terms and Causes" (Robert Fellenz); "From Where We Came: A Critical Examination of Selected Historical Literature of Adult Education" (Burton Sisco); "Multiple Legitimate Uses of Research Processes in Adult Education" (James McElhinney); "A Fresh Look at Adult Development: Alternative Paradigms for Research" (Robert Bruce, Sharan Merriam, and Rosemary Caffarella); "Differences between Participants and Non-Participants in a Corrections Education Program" (William Dowling); "Adult Classroom Locus of Control" (Mary Jane Even); "Exporatory Examination of the Educational Delivery System for Adults in Greece" (Marcie Boucouvalas and Iris Drower); "Repertory Grid in Group Oriented Learning Situations" (Dan Pratt and Philip Candy); "Women in Their Thirties: The In-Between Generation" (Rosemary Caffarella and Stanley Freeman); "Development and Validation of an Instrument to Identify Self-Directed Continuing Learners" (Lorys Oddi); "Revolting Soldiers: The Origins of Education in the Armies of World War I" (Roger Boshier); "Microscope or Telescope: The Place of Metaphor in Adult Education Research" (Philip Candy); "Patterns of Persistence and Non-Persistence of Non-Traditionally-Aged Undergraduate Women" (Mary Ann Brenden); "Independent Learning and Reproduction of Inequalities" (Lena Borgstrom and Kjell Rubenson); "Acquisition of Information Resources by Informal Adult Learners" (Elaine McCreary); "Stalking the Elusive BOK in Adult Education" (Thomas Sork); "Changes in Role Identification among Inmate Learners" (Grant Clarke); "Cooperation to Improve Teaching at a Land Grant University" (Gary Conti and Robert Fellenz); "Adult Learning in a Resource Exchange Network" (Virginia Thompson); "Needs Assessment Methodology for Staff and Organizational Development" (Sheila Bohun); "Relevance of Hermeneutics for Research and Practice in Adult Education" (Adele Chene, Michael Collins, and Jean-Pierre Theil); "Study of Adult Education for Black People in Roxbury, Massachusetts 1900-1980" (Carrie Dickens); "Influence of Self-Concept as Learner on Participation Patterns of Adult Learners" (Deborah Goodman); "Historical Analysis of Correctional Education in Canada" (Margaret Owens); "Adult Education as Political Detoxification" (Stephen Brookfield); "Assessing the Impact of Adult Literacy Education" (Harlan Copeland, Greta Ploetz, and Mary Winterbauer); "Self-Directed Learning: A Conceptual Analysis" (David Little); "Visible Learning: Adult Education and the Question of Participation" (Sean Courtney); "Jurgen Habemas's Concept of Communicative Action and Its Implications for the Adult Learning Process" (Michael Collins); "Salient Childhood Experiences of (AHSN-Cs)" (Larry Martin); "Critical Analysis of Adult Learning Principles from a Self-Directed Learner's Perspective" (Claudia Danis and Nicole Tremblay); "World Impact of N. F. S. Grundtvig's Educational Ideas!" (Roger Axford); "Adult Education and Educational Equality" (A. Joyce Costin); "Evaluation of an Interactive, Language Experience Based Microcomputer Approach to Promote Functional Literacy" (Elaine Wangberg); "Relationship between Locus of Control and Value Orientations in Adult Learners" (Carroll Londoner, Fredric Linder, and David Bauer); "Adult Learners' Interactions with Learning Situations" (W. Louise Shores); "Hermeneutics and the Educational Narrative" (Adele Chene); "Factors in Attributions for Success and Failure among Anglo, Black, Hispanic and Native American Community College Students" (Mark Rossman and Stephen Powers); "Leisure Learning, Fitness and Activity Patterns among Older Adults" (John Collins); "Participation in Learning Activities by Active Older Adults" (James Fisher); and "Play and Playfulness in Adult Learning: "Women's Perspectives" (Lanie Melamed). (MN)