The following are among the 55 papers in this volume: "Implications of Person-Environment Congruence in Adult Learning Environments" (Agee); "Reliability and Validity of the Alternate Form of the Education Participation Scale" (Boshier); "Research and Developments in the Neurosciences" (Boucouvalas); "Professional Writing Activity among Professors of Adult Education" (Brockett); "Re-entry for Women" (Butterwick); "Self-directed Learning" (Caffarella, O'Donnell); "University Based Continuing Professional Education" (Chaytor, Chaytor, Poel); "From the Text to the Adult Learning Trajectory" (Chene); "A Profile of Selected Women Leaders" (Cheng); "Learning Styles and Method of Pre-service Education" (Coggins); "Self-directed Learning or an Emancipatory Practice of Adult Education" (Collins); "Teaching and Learning Styles and the Native American Learner" (Conti, Fellenz); "Using a Data Management System to Control Research Data Entry and Manipulation" (Conti, Fellenz); "Conceptions of the Usefulness of Participation in Adult Education Activities" (Costin); "Relationship between Learning Strategies/Meta-Strategies and Experiential Learning Styles of Self-Taught Adults" (Danis); "Adult Basic Skills" (Deane); "Situation Analysis Factors Affecting Program Decisions in the Cooperative Extension System" (Deshler, Wood); "Overcoming Barriers to Education for Rural Adults" (Easton); "Some Implications of Sternberg's Triarchic Theory for Adult Basic Education" (Farr, Moon); "Toward Redefining a Theory of Interdependence of Providers of Continuing Professional Education" (Ferro); "Effective Training for Management & Nonsupervisory Employees" (Foucar-Szocki); "The Process of Becoming an Adult Educator" (Finger); "What Is Education?" (Forrest); "Retirement Planning" (Foutz); "Mutual Enlightenment in Vancouver, 1886-1961" (Hunt); "Critical Thinking, Critical Teaching, Critical Theory" (Inkster); "Knowledge and Learning in Adult Education" (Jarvis); "As the Gavel Strikes" (Kiener); "The Further Development of an Adult Education Classroom Environment Scale" (Langenbach, Aagaard); "Adult Education, McCarthyism, and the Cold War" (Law); "Application of Stufflebeam's CIPP Model" (Lewis, Murphy); "Intentional Learning and Change by Adults with Type II Diabetes" (Lundgren); "Work Experience vs. Literacy" (Mason); "Effects of an Interactive Video Adult Literacy Instruction System" (McElhinney, Wood); "Doing Case Study Research in Adult Education" (Merriam); "Transformation Theory" (Mezirow); and "Insights on the Process of Innovation in Urban Extension Programs of the Cooperative Extension Service" (Milk). Eighteen other papers, a symposium session, two junto session reports, and eight poster session abstracts are also included. (MN)