Power, Politics, and Adult Educational Administration

This book seeks to draw out the impacts of power, politics and critical theory on the growth of adult learning in a small liberal arts college setting.

John Kokolus is the Founding Dean of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at Elizabethtown College, USA.

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Continuing Education Timeline at Elizabethtown College: 1899-2014 Part One: Beginnings Chapter 3: Partnerships in Adult Education and the Impact of Critical Theory Chapter 4: Critical Theory's Structural Democratic Impulse Chapter 5: Challenges to the Status Quo Part Two: Accreditation and the Continuing Education Plan Chapter 6: Self-Studies: 1998 and 2009 Chapter 7: New Plan for Continuing Education - Part I Part Three: Faculty Chapter 8: New Plan for Continuing Education - Part II Chapter 9: New Plan for Continuing Education - Part III Part Four: Locations Chapter 10: New Plan for Continuing Education - Part IV Part Five: Class Conflict Chapter 11: Conflicts Between Adult and Traditional Students Part Six: Staff Chapter 12: Stresses and Strains of Critical Theory on the Front Line Part Seven: The Rhetoric of Academic Quality Chapter 13: Faculty Assessment Process as a Gateway for Affiliated Faculty Conclusion References