Overview

Adult education. Research interests include adult education philosophy and history; program planning practice in adult and extension education; adult learning, especially transformational learning and socio-cultural theories of learning; cultural studies in American adult education and post-colonial studies in international adult education and extension. Overriding research concern in all of these areas is with the politics of education, specifically the role of power in shaping our educational and social lives. Research training and experience in qualitative and historical research methods; special interest in alternative research methods such as discourse analysis, hermeneutics, narrative inquiry, and phenomenology.

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Selected Publications

• Cervero, R.M., & Wilson, A.L. (2006). Working the planning table: Negotiating democratically for adult, continuing, and workplace education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Cervero, R.M., Wilson, A.L. (Eds.). (2001). Power in practice: Adult education and the struggle for knowledge and power in society. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Wilson, A.L., & Hayes, E.R. (Eds.). (2000). Handbook of adult and continuing education: New edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass & the American Association for Adult & Continuing Education.
• Jarvis, P. in association with A.L. Wilson. (1999). International dictionary of adult and continuing education. London: Kogan Page.
• Cervero, R. M., & Wilson, A.L. (Eds.). (1996). What really matters in adult education program planning: Lessons in negotiating power and interests. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, no. 69. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Cervero, R.M., & Wilson, A.L. (1994). Planning responsibly for adult education: A guide to negotiating power and interests. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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