Table of Contents

Part I - Foundations
1: Carol Hoare: Growing a Discipline at the Borders of Thought
2: Sharan B. Merriam and M. Carolyn Clark: Learning and Development: The Connection in Adulthood
3: Grace I.L. Caskie and Sherry L. Willis: Research Design and Methodological Issues for Adult Development and Learning
Part II - Do Development and Learning Fuel One Another in Adulthood?: Four Key Areas
4: Karen Strohm Kitchener, Patricia M. King, and Sonia DeLuca: The Development of Reflective Judgment in Adulthood
5: K. Warner Schaie and Faika A.K. Zanjani: Intellectual Development Across Adulthood
6: Nathan S. Consedine and Carol Magai: Emotional Development in Adulthood: A Developmental Functional Review and Critique
7: Frieder R. Lang and Jutta Heckhausen: Motivation and Interpersonal Regulation Across Adulthood: Managing the Challenges and Constraints of Social Contexts
Part III - The Self-System in Adult Development and Learning
8: Daniel Cervone, Daniele Artistico, and Jane M. Berry: Self-efficacy and Adult Development
9: Kathleen Taylor: Autonomy and Self-Directed Learning: A Developmental Journey
10: Melvin E. Miller: Adult Development, Learning, and Insight Through Psychotherapy: The Cultivation of Change and Transformation
Part IV - The Higher Reaches of Adult Development and Learning
11: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura: Creativity Through the Life Span From an Evolutionary Systems Perspective
12: Michael Lamport Commons and Linda Marie Bresette: Illuminating Major Creative Scientific Innovators with Postformal Stages
13: Caroline L. Bassett: Laughing at Gilded Butterflies: Integrating Wisdom, Development, and Learning
14: Ronald R. Irwin: Spiritual Development in Adulthood: Key Concepts and Models
Part V - Essential Contexts for the Learning, Developing Adult
15: Jack Demick: Effects of Children on Adult Development and Learning: Parenthood and Beyond
16: Carol Hoare: Work as the Catalyst of Reciprocal Adult Development and Learning: Identity and Personality
17: Jan D. Sinnott and Debra Berlanstein: The Importance of Feeling Whole: Learning to Feel Connected, Community, and Adult Development
18: Heidi Keller and Anne Werchan: Culture, Learning, and Adult Development
Part VI - Adult Development and Learning, Measured and Applied
19: Theo L. Dawson-Tunik: The Meaning and Measurement of Conceptual Development in Adulthood
20: Judith Stevens-Long and Robert Barner: Advanced Avenues in Adult Development and Learning: The Role of Doctoral Study
21: Garrett McAuliffe: The Evolution of Professional Competence
22: Glen Rogers, Marcia Mentkowski, and Judith Reisetter Hart: Adult Holistic Development and Multidimensional Performance

About the Author

Carol Hoare is Professor of Human Development and Human Resource Development in the Department of Counseling and Human and Organizational Studies, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, The George Washington University. An alumna of Carlow College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hoare earned her doctorate in Adult Learning and Human Development at the George Washington University. She has served as a university
trustee, provided consultation to national and international organizations, and, at The George Washington University, has served as department chair and co-director of the University Office for Community Services. She has
studied, taught, and published on topics in adult development and learning for twenty-five years, and is the author of more than fifty origninal research articles, paper presentations, book chapters, and invited addresses. Her recent book, Erikson on Development in Adulthood: New Insights from the Unpublished Papers, has received wide ranging acclaim in the United States and abroad.

Reviews

"This is indeed the handbook that the field of human development has been waiting for. Development is traditionally and typically associated with early life, but developmental change occurs at all ages. Addressing the interactions among facets of learning and other aspects of developmental change in adulthood, the excellent contributors to this major work have been growing a discipline at the borders of thought. This compendium will be of immense value to
researchers and clinicians for years to come."--Lewis P. Lipsitt, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Medical Science, and Human Development, Brown University
"Learning and devlopment dominate the adulthood of real people, contrary to the static stereotype of popular culture. Carol Hoare's book skillfully captures the scope and depth of these adult changes. Beginning with a masterful overview of the field, this comprehensive resource documents and illuminates the rich variability of pathways of adult development and adaptation."--Kurt W. Fischer, Charles Warland Bigelow, Professor, and Director of Mind, Brain, and
Education, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
"The single richest source available today for any teacher, student, practitioner, or scholar interested in adult transformation--the place where adult development and adult learning intersect."--Robert Kegan, Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
"A timely, comprehensive, and well-written survey of the interaction of adult development and intelligence. It is timely because in the last several years social and behavioral scientists in gerontology have rediscovered the value of lifecourse developmental theory and research in the study of human aging. At the same time, the authors illustrate a large and growing range of research and practice areas in which the topics familiar to gerontologists are
located in a much wider variety of settings--education, law, nursing, ethnic studies, management, counseling. [This is] a book likely to make a significant contribution."--George L. Maddox, Duke Center for
Aging and Human Development
"This is truly a seminal work...The book is truly comprehensive in its inclusion of different perspectives and factors as well as investigative approaches."--PsycCRITIQUES
"Learning and devlopment dominate the adulthood of real people, contrary to the static stereotype of popular culture. Carol Hoare's book skillfully captures the scope and depth of these adult changes. Beginning with a masterful overview of the field, this comprehensive resource documents and illuminates the rich variability of pathways of adult development and adaptation."--Kurt W. Fischer, Charles Warland Bigelow, Professor, and Director of Mind, Brain, and
Education, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
"The single richest source available today for any teacher, student, practitioner, or scholar interested in adult transformation--the place where adult development and adult learning intersect."--Robert Kegan, Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
"This is indeed the handbook that the field of human development has been waiting for. Development is traditionally and typically associated with early life, but developmental change occurs at all ages. Addressing the interactions among facets of learning and other aspects of developmental change in adulthood, the excellent contributors to this major work have been growing a discipline at the borders of thought. This compendium will be of immense value to
researchers and clinicians for years to come."--Lewis P. Lipsitt, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Medical Science, and Human Development, Brown University
"A timely, comprehensive, and well-written survey of the interaction of adult development and intelligence. It is timely because in the last several years social and behavioral scientists in gerontology have rediscovered the value of lifecourse developmental theory and research in the study of human aging. At the same time, the authors illustrate a large and growing range of research and practice areas in which the topics familiar to gerontologists are
located in a much wider variety of settings--education, law, nursing, ethnic studies, management, counseling. [This is] a book likely to make a significant contribution."--George L. Maddox, Duke Center for
Aging and Human Development
"This is truly a seminal work...The book is truly comprehensive in its inclusion of different perspectives and factors as well as investigative approaches."--PsycCRITIQUES
"The Handbook of Adult Development and Learning is intended to stimulate discussion for the integration of learning and adult development. With a readable, yet sophisticated text, Hoare has successfully demonstrated how these constructs can be integrated."--The Psychological Record
"Carol Hoare brings a fresh perspective to adult development and learning....Part of the reason that is is fresh is that Hoare is trying something new: to bring together learning (adult education) and development (psychology) as interrelated fields and to thereby establish a new discipline or field of study....I am delighted to have it on my shelf."--Leona M. English, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada, reviewed in Journal of Adult
Theological Education