This article draws on the experience of a research project designed to bring together practitioners and researchers in further education (FE) colleges and the higher education (HE) sector in pursuit of ways of creating more accessible learning opportunities for students in colleges. Here we explore some of the assumptions underlying the…

This section's thematic heading includes "University Continuing Education Units' Commitment to Research: Program Development as Scholarly Work" (Blaney); "An Invitation to the Dance: The Importance of Practitioners Undertaking Research in Adult and Continuing Education" (Thompson); and "Research in University Continuing…

These two volumes contain a complete report on an inventory of the state of educational research in Quebec, as surveyed in 1968-1969. Four different populations--deans, professors of education, graduate students in education, and educational researchers other than faculties of education--were studied, using a particular instrument designed for the…

This document, which is described by its author as a "critical autobiography", traces one adult educator's 15-year journey from graduate school and into the field of adult literacy and the process of his development into what he calls "an American scholar." The autobiographical narrative is developed against the backdrop of the…