Proceedings of the Annual Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing and Community Education (16th, East Lansing, Michigan, October 15-17, 1997).

This proceedings contains 29 presentations: "Meaning of Participating in Technology Training" (Cynthia S. Blodgett-McDeavitt); "Applying Actor Network Theory to Curricular Change in Medical Schools" (Karen V. Busch); "Politics of Humanism" (Mary Katherine Cooper); "Reasons for the Nonparticipation of Adults in Rural Literacy Programs in Western Guatemala, Central America" (German Cutz); "Transformative Learning" (Barbara J. Daley); "Illiteracy of Literalism" (John M. Dirkx); "Linguistics of Andragogy and Its Offspring" (Trenton R. Ferro); "Social Gospel: Lindeman's Overlooked Inspiration?" (James C. Fisher); "How Learning in Residence Fosters Transformative Learning and Connected Teaching" (Jean Anderson Fleming); "Changing Math Anxiety and Attitudes with the Use of Graphics Calculators" (M. Catherine Gardner); "Adult Learning, Global Civil Society, and Politics" (Budd L. Hall); "Looking Back, Looking Forward: Reflections on the Origins of the International Participatory Research Network and the Participatory Research Group in Toronto, Canada" (Budd L. Hall); "Linking Critical Qualitative Research to Practice" (Elisabeth Hayes, Wendy Way); "Factors Influencing the Ways that Sexually Harassed Women Adult Educators Make Meaning of Their Experiences" (Eunice E. Hornsby); "Types of Sexual Harassment Perpetrated Against Women Adult Educators by Their Students" (Eunice E. Hornsby); "Trainees' Perceptions of Formal Training and Informal Learning" (Susan Klingel-Dowd); "Princess and the Pea: Professional Practical Knowledge of Female Educational Leaders" (Ruth S. Lavin); "Building a Learning Community" (Randee Lipson Lawrence); "Research and the Practitioner" (S. Joseph Levine); "She Said, He Said or a Dialogue on Gender Perspectives of Adult Education Theory and Practice" (Natalie K. Manbeck, Robert H. Bruhl); "Transformative Learning: Applications for the Development of Learning Organizations" (Sheila McCutchan); "Relationship Between Producing Published Research and Student Evaluations of Teaching of University Faculty" (James H. McElhinney, Jean Anderson Fleming); "Journal Writing as a Form of Professional Development" (Richard A. Orem); "Hesitating to Disclose" (Tonette S. Rocco); "Characteristics and Principles of University-Community Partnerships" (Lorilee R. Sandmann, Charles A. Baker-Clark); "Teaching Portfolio" (Maureen A. Shannon, Jonathan D. Rohrer); "Repeat Performance: How Adult Education Reproduces the Status Quo" (Barbara Sparks); "Aging Workforce: One University's Response" (David S. Stein. Tonette S. Rocco, Kelly M. Goldenetz); and "Adult Learning and the Uses of Biography" (Steven Weiland). (YLB)