Developing Programs in Adult Education: A Conceptual Programming Model

by Edgar John Boone

The Second Edition of Developing Programs in Adult Education will serve as an indispensable guide for current and prospective adult educators in planning, designing/implementing, and evaluating/accounting for adult education programs. Like the successful First Edition, this revised and expanded volume presents a conceptual programming model that draws from many concepts, constructs, and theories generated by adult educators and other scholars in closely allied disciplines. The updated model, field tested and validated, enhances and elaborates on the complex contextual relationships and processual actions represented in the original. The authors offer illustrative applications within varied organizational contexts and provide a panorama of both macro- and micro-perspectives and actions of a program planning process, with examples from various fields of adult education practice. This innovative text is the definitive authority on one of the few theoretical models of the programming process based in systems theory merged with the practice ecology of adult education.

328 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2002

Reviews

[Stan Skrabut · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the second time that I've had an opportunity to read Boone, Safrit, and Jones' book, Developing Programs in Adult Education: A Conceptual Programming Model (2nd Edition) . The first time I read it,  I was a grad student taking Dr. Cliff Harbour's course on program planning and evaluation.  The second time is while teaching the same course to graduate students for the University of Wyoming. I have mixed feelings about this book because I am looking at it and two different frames of reference. On one hand, I'm looking at it from an academic perspective and on the other hand, from a practical perspective. Read more

[LeeAnne Riddle · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of theory that makes you think. Not as practical as Caffarella's Planning programs for adult learners.