The Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education (PDF)

Tonette S. Rocco, graduated from The Ohio State University and serves as a professor in adult education and human resource development at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. She is a Houle Scholar, a member of the 2016 class of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame, 2016 Outstanding HRD Scholar and recipient of more than 25 awards for scholarship, mentoring, and service. Her other books include Challenging the Parameters of Adult Education: John Ohliger and the Quest for Social Democracy (with Grace, Jossey-Bass, 2009); Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing (with Tim Hatcher, Jossey-Bass, 2011); Handbook of HRD (Wiley, 2014; with Chalofsky and Morris) and the Routledge Companion to HRD (2014; with Poell and Roth); Disrupting adult and community education: Teaching, working, and learning in the periphery (SUNY, 2016; with Mizzi and Shore). She is Editor-in-Chief of New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development.

M Cecil Smith is a professor in the Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development in the College of Education and Human Sciences at West Virginia University, where he also previously served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education. In addition to publications in several leading journals in education, he has edited books on reading, adult literacy, adult learning and development, and teaching educational psychology. He earned a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Robert C. Mizzi is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is also former president of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education and the current editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. Robert has worked in over 15 countries as a researcher or educator, has authored over 50 articles on his research, and has published five books. Robert's