ABSTRACT
The time is right for this comprehensive, state-of-the-art Handbook that analyzes, integrates, and summarizes theoretical advances and research findings on adult development and learning - a rapidly growing field reflecting demographic shifts toward an aging population in Western societies. Featuring contributions from prominent scholars across diverse disciplinary fields (education, developmental psychology, public policy, gerontology, neurology, public health, sociology, family studies, and adult education), the volume is organized around six themes:
- theoretical perspectives on adult development and learning
- research methods in adult development
- research on adult development
- research on adult learning
- aging and gerontological research
- policy perspectives on aging.
The Handbook is an essential reference for researchers, faculty, graduate students and practitioners whose work pertains to adult and lifespan development and learning.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |134 pages
Theoretical Perspectives on Adult Development and Learning
chapter |31 pages
Challenges for the Current Status of Adult Developmental Theories
chapter |35 pages
Models of Adult Development in Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Theory and Erikson's Biopsychosocial Life Stage Theory
chapter |32 pages
Cognitive Development as the Dance of Adaptive Transformation
part |46 pages
Research Methods in Adult Development
chapter |25 pages
Analyzing Change in Adulthood with Multilevel Growth Models
part |279 pages
Research on Adult Development
chapter |21 pages
Addressing Stability and Change in the Six-Foci Model of Personality
chapter |28 pages
Adjustment and Growth
chapter |34 pages
Gender Strategies
part |232 pages
Research on Adult Learning
chapter |40 pages
Expertise and the Adult Learner
chapter |17 pages
Changes in Goal-Striving Across the Life Span
chapter |34 pages
Service-Learning, Civic and Community Participation
part |68 pages
Aging and Gerontological Research
part |23 pages
Policy Perspectives on Aging