Third Update on Adult Learning Theory

E DITOR'S N OTES ( Sharan B. Merriam ). 1. Transformative Learning Theory ( Edward W. Taylor ) Empirical research on transformative learning has burgeoned in the last decade, as have alternative theoretical conceptions to theories first proposed by Mezirow and Freire. 2. Workplace Learning: Emerging Trends and New Perspectives ( Tara Fenwick ) Workplace learning is much more than training; attention is turning to practice-based perspectives and power and politics in workplace learning. 3. Spirituality and Adult Learning ( Elizabeth J. Tisdell ) Spirituality and spiritual development are, or can be, integral to an adult's learning experiences. 4. Learning Through the Body ( Tammy J. Freiler ) Embodied learning as another way of knowing and the body as a site of learning are explored in this chapter. 5. Teaching with the Brain in Mind ( Kathleen Taylor, Annalee Lamoreaux ) New research in neuroscience is revealing how the brain translates experience into learning and how learning changes the brain. 6. Narrative Learning in Adulthood ( M. Carolyn Clark, Marsha Rossiter ) Narrative learning-learning through stories and storying our experiences-is legitimizing an ancient form of human learning. 7. Non-Western Perspectives on Learning and Knowing ( Sharan B. Merriam, Young Sek Kim ) Indigenous knowledge and non-Western religious and philosophical systems are challenging our historically cognitive processing orientation to adult learning. 8. Troubling Adult Learning in the Present Time ( Robert J. Hill ) Modern and postmodern ways of knowing are converging in a new New Social Movement. 9. Adult Learning Theory for the Twenty-First Century ( Sharan B. Merriam ) Attention to contexts in which learning takes place as well as the holistic nature of learning are characterizing movements in adult learning theory today. I NDEX.