Provides key insights into the politics and policy issues in adult education today. Offering effective strategies for reflection and action, chapters explore issues in examination and negotiation of the political aspects of higher education, adult educators in K-12-focused colleges of education, literacy education, social welfare reform, professional organizations, and identity of the field. A valuable guidebook for educators meeting the political challenges in adult education policies, programs, and everyday practices. This is the 91st journal in the Jossey-Bass series New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education.About the Author: CATHERINE A HANSMAN is associate professor and program director of the M.Ed. program in adult learning and development and the leadership and lifelong learning track in the Ph.D. program in urban education at Cleveland State University, Ohio. PEGGY A. SISSEL is a researcher and consultant with the Center for Applied Studies in Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.