Towards a History of Adult Education in America

Harold W. Stubblefield

Part 1: Adult Education as Diffusion of Knowledge 1. The New School for Social Research, James Harvey Robinson and the Humanizing of Knowledge 2. The Carnegie Corporation, the American Association for Adult Education, and the Promotion of an Idea of Adult Education 3. Lyman Bryson and the Democracy of Culture Part 2: Adult Education as Liberal Education 4. Everett Dean Martin and a Grown-Up Civilization 5. Robert Hutchins, Mortimer Adler and 'Liberal Education Beyond Schooling' Through the Great Books 6. Alexander Meiklejohn and John Walker Powell on Liberal Education and the Study of Contemporary Society Part 3: Adult Education as Social Education 7. Joseph K. Hart and the Community as Educator 8. Eduard C. Lindeman and the Cultural Approach to Adult Education 9. Harry Overstreet and the Determinative Concept of Maturity 10. Toward an Adult Education Tradition