Handbook of Adult Development and Learning

The Intersection of Adult Development and Learning is the first handbook to explore the ways in which adult roles, functions, interests, motivations, and contexts lead to synchronous development and learning. The chapters in this volume, written by leaders in their respective areas, elaborate on topics that show the interplay between adult development and learning. As the chapter contributors ably demonstrate, it is now abundantly clear that adult learning and development reinforce each other.

Carol Hoare is Professor of Human Development and Human Resource Development in the Department of Counseling and Human and Organizational Studies, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, The George Washington University. An alumna of Carlow College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hoare earned her doctorate in Adult Learning and Human Development at the George Washington University. She has served as a university trustee, provided consultation to national and international organizations, and, at The George Washington University, has served as department chair and co-director of the University Office for Community Services. She has studied, taught, and published on topics in adult development and learning for twenty-five years, and is the author of more than fifty origninal research articles, paper presentations, book chapters, and invited addresses. Her recent book, Erikson on Development in Adulthood: New Insights from the Unpublished Papers, has received wide ranging acclaim in the United States and abroad.