Learning Cities for Adult Learners

<p>Learning cities call for a connection of adult education to elementary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions along with vocational and corporate workspaces.</p> <p>This volume considers how “learning cities for adult learners” could be created in America that promote lifelong learning and education. Encouraging a widespread approach to educate and learn across disciplines, within communities, and inside the minds of all people, topics covered include:</p> <p>• workplace and organizational learning,</p> <p>• community engagement and service learning,</p> <p>• public libraries and cooperative extension, and</p> <p>• leisure, recreation, and public health education.<br /><br />This is the 145th volume of the Jossey Bass series <b>New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education</b>. Noted for its depth of coverage, it explores issues of common interest to instructors, administrators, counselors, and policymakers in a broad range of education settings, such as colleges and universities, extension programs, businesses, libraries, and museums.</p>