Adult Education Quarterly
Adult Education | Continuing Education | Equality & Diversity in the Lifelong Learning Sector
The Adult Education Quarterly (AEQ) is an international, scholarly, refereed journal committed to advancing the understanding and practice of adult and continuing education. The journal strives to be inclusive in scope, addressing topics and issues of significance to scholars and practitioners concerned with diverse aspects of adult and continuing education across the globe. AEQ publishes research employing a variety of methods and approaches, including (but not limited to) survey research, experimental designs, case studies, ethnographic observations and interviews, grounded theory, phenomenology, historical investigations, and narrative inquiry as well as articles that address theoretical and philosophical issues pertinent to adult and continuing education. Innovative and provocative scholarship informed by diverse orientations is encouraged, including (but not limited to) positivism, post-positivism, constructivism, critical theory, feminism, race-based/Africentric, gay/lesbian, and poststructural/postmodern theories. AEQ aims to stimulate a problem-oriented, critical approach to research and practice, with an increasing emphasis on inter-disciplinary and international perspectives. The audience includes researchers, students, and adult and continuing education practitioners of many orientations including teachers, trainers, facilitators, resource persons, organizational developers, community organizers, and policy designers.
Features
In addressing a broad array of issues and practices in adult and continuing education, AEQ features the following orientations and types of articles:
- Inquiry orientations including (but not limited to): positivism, post-positivism, constructivism, critical theory, feminism, race-based/Africentric, gay/lesbian, and poststructural/postmodern theories
- Research reports including (but not limited to): survey research, experimental designs, case studies, ethnographic observations and interviews, grounded theory, phenomenology, historical investigations, and narrative inquiry
- Theoretical and philosophical analyses
- Critical integrative reviews of adult and continuing education literature
- Forum essays (position statements or reasoned critiques of articles previously published in AEQ)
- Essay reviews (commissioned by the editors)
- Book reviews (contact the book review editor)
- "To the Editor" comments and contributions
- Editorials
Audience
The audience includes researchers, students, and adult and continuing education practitioners of many orientations including teachers, trainers, facilitators, resource persons, organizational developers, community organizers, and policy designers.
The Adult Education Quarterly (AEQ) is an international, scholarly, refereed journal committed to advancing the understanding and practice of adult and continuing education. The journal strives to be inclusive in scope, addressing topics and issues of significance to scholars and practitioners concerned with diverse aspects of adult and continuing education across the globe. AEQ publishes research employing a variety of methods and approaches, including (but not limited to) survey research, experimental designs, case studies, ethnographic observations and interviews, grounded theory, phenomenology, historical investigations, and narrative inquiry as well as articles that address theoretical and philosophical issues pertinent to adult and continuing education. Innovative and provocative scholarship informed by diverse orientations is encouraged, including (but not limited to) positivism, post-positivism, constructivism, critical theory, feminism, race-based/Africentric, gay/lesbian, and poststructural/postmodern theories. AEQ aims to stimulate a problem-oriented, critical approach to research and practice, with an increasing emphasis on inter-disciplinary and international perspectives. The audience includes researchers, students, and adult and continuing education practitioners of many orientations including teachers, trainers, facilitators, resource persons, organizational developers, community organizers, and policy designers.
| Lisa R. Merriweather | University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA |
| Edith Gnanadass | The University of Memphis, USA |
| Dianne Ramdeholl | Empire State University, USA |
| Ralf St. Clair | University of Victoria, Canada |
| Jacob Frankovich | University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA |
| Dianne Ramdeholl | Empire State University, USA |
| Mary V. Alfred | Texas A&M University, USA |
| Geleana Drew Alston | North Carolina A&T State University, USA |
| Per Andersson | Linkoping University, Sweden |
| Susan Barcinas | North Carolina State University, USA |
| Alisa A. Belzer | Rutgers University, USA |
| Jim Berger | Georgia College and State University (replace Western Kentucky University) |
| Stephen Billett | Griffith University, Australia |
| Ellen Boeren | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Jeremy Bohonos | Texas State University, USA |
| Bo Chang | Ball State University, USA |
| Maureen Coady | St. Francis Xavier University, Canada |
| Simone C. O. Conceição | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA |
| Joellen E. Coryell | Texas State University - San Marcos, USA |
| Andrea D. Ellinger | University of Texas-Tyler |
| Andreas Fejes | Linkoping University, Sweden |
| Fergal Finnegan | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| António Fragoso | Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
| Elisabeth Gee | Arizona State University, USA |
| Michelle Glowacki-Dudka | Ball State University, USA |
| Edith Gnanadass | The University of Memphis, USA |
| Patricia Gouthro | Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada |
| Wendy Green | Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio |
| Daphne Greenberg | Georgia State University, USA |
| Anke Grotluschen | University of Hamburg, Germany |
| Shibao Guo | University of Calgary, Canada |
| Lilian H. Hill | University of Southern Mississippi, USA |
| Chad Hoggan | North Carolina State University, USA |
| John D. Holst | The Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| E. Paulette Isaac-Savage | University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA |
| Jaye Jones | Lehman College, USA |
| Kaela Jubas | University of Calgary, Canada |
| Bernd Kaepplinger | Institute for Education Science, Germany |
| Carol E. Kasworm | North Carolina State University, USA |
| Junghwan Kim | Texas A&M University, USA |
| Suehye Kim | Gangneung-Wonju National University, South Korea |
| Tetyana Hoggan- Kloubert | University of Augsburg, Germany |
| Clarena Larrotta | Texas State University-San Marcos, USA |
| Ming-yeh Lee | San Francisco State University, USA |
| Xi Lin | East Carolina University, USA |
| Larry G. Martin | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA |
| Lisa R. Merriweather | University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA |
| Elana Michelson | Empire State College (SUNY), USA |
| Marcela Milana | University of Verona, Italy |
| Mitsunori Misawa | University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA |
| Robert Mizzi | University of Manitoba, Canada |
| Mpoki Mwaikokesya | University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania |
| Aliki Nicolaides | University of Georgia, USA |
| Daphne W. Ntiri | Wayne State University, USA |
| Esther S. Prins | Penn State University, USA |
| Daryll Privott | Morehead State University, USA |
| Dianne Ramdeholl | Empire State University, USA |
| Sarah Ray | George Washington University, USA |
| Robin Redmon Wright | Penn State Harrisburg, USA |
| Petra Robinson | Louisiana State University, USA |
| Kevin Roessger | University of Arkansas, USA |
| Amy D. Rose | Northern Illinois University, USA |
| Jovita M Ross-Gordon | Texas State University - San Marcos, USA |
| Steven Schmidt | East Carolina University, USA |
| Tom Schuller | University College London, UK |
| Stephanie Sisco | University of Minnesota, USA |
| M. Cecil Smith | Southern Illinois University, USA |
| Ralf St. Clair | University of Victoria, Canada |
| Mark Tennant | University of Technology, Sydney, Australia |
| Nisha Thapliyal | University of Newcastle, Australia |
| Elizabeth J. Tisdell | Penn State Harrisburg, USA |
| Maria A. Vetter | Thrive Advocacy Group, USA |
| Jude Walker | University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Shirley Walters | University of Western Cape, South Africa |
| Baiyin Yang | Jiangnan University, China |
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