Within each theme, the editors have selected contributions that help to clarify the diversity and richness of Canadian adult education today. The contributors are all leading researchers and practitioners of adult education from coast to coast. The editorsa overriding goal has been to provide a critically informed overview of the state of adult education. This volume is timed to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education/laAssociation Canadienne pour laAtude de laAducation des Adultes [CASAE/ACAAA.