K. PATRICIA CROSS is David Pierpont Gardner Professor of Higher Education at the University of California Berkeley.

"A superb, substantive book and one that should cause us to think about the learning society and how we are going to plan for it now and in the future."

• 1. Growth of the Learning Society2. Issues in Recruiting Adult Learners3. Who Participates in Adult Learning4. Why Adults Participate--and Why Not5. Toward a Model of Adult Motivation for Learning6. Implications for Increasing Participation7. Patterns of Adult Learning and Development8. How and What Adults Learn--and Want to Learn9. Facilitating Learning