Working the Planning Table: Negotiating Democratically for Adult, Continuing, and Workplace Education

Preface v

Working the Planning Table: A Theory for Practice

1. Seeing What Matters: Education as a Struggle for Knowledge and Power 5

2. Practicing Educational Planning: Three Stories 27

3. Negotiating Democratically for Educational and Political Outcomes 77

Working the Planning Table: The Theory in Practice

4. Negotiating the Program’s Needs-Assessment 107

5. Negotiating the Program’s Educational, Management, and Political Objectives 137

6. Negotiating the Program’s Instructional Design and Implementation 161

7. Negotiating the Program’s Administrative Organization and Operation 187

8. Negotiating the Program’s Formal and Informal Evaluation 213

9. Working the Planning Table in the Struggle for Knowledge and Power 241

References 269

The Authors 285

Index 289