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This fourth edition of Learning in Adulthood is a direct response to the field's burgeoning literature base on research and theory in adult learning and the need for a single, comprehensive, up-to-date textbook to use in our adult learning classes and as a resource for research in adult learning. In a very real sense, it has been the students in our programs, participants in our workshops and seminars, and colleagues in the field who have challenged us to revise and update the previous edition of the book. Others, of course, have been of invaluable assistance at various stages of the project. David Brightman, an editor at Jossey-Bass for the first three editions of Learning in Adulthood, was enormously supportive in assisting us through the process as was Amy Fandrei and Pete Gaughan for this fourth edition. Colleagues Ralph Brockett, Carol Kasworm, Ed Taylor, and Libby Tisdell unselfishly provided us with updated materials and suggested resources for us to consider. A special thanks goes to Bora Jin, student and graduate research assistant at Texas A&M University, for tracking down references, assisting in editing, and in technical matters of getting the book ready for the publisher. Thanks also to Julia Lynch, postdoctoral scholar at Texas A&M, for her editing suggestions, creation of tables and figures, and attention to detail in preparing the book manuscript. Finally, thanks to Mario Torres at Texas A&M University and Kevin Fall at Texas State University for their support. To all of you, we offer our heartfelt thanks. Of course, we also want to thank our family members and friends for their support and patience over the last year.

Finally, we wish to acknowledge Rosemary S. Caffarella's invaluable contribution in the conceptualizing, researching, and writing of chapters in the earlier editions of Learning in Adulthood.

Sharan B. Merriam

Lisa M. Baumgartner

Athens, Georgia

San Marcos, Texas

July 2019