Adult education. Research interests include adult education philosophy and history; program planning practice in adult and extension education; adult learning, especially transformational learning and socio-cultural theories of learning; cultural studies in American adult education and post-colonial studies in international adult education and extension. Overriding research concern in all of these areas is with the politics of education, specifically the role of power in shaping our educational and social lives. Research training and experience in qualitative and historical research methods; special interest in alternative research methods such as discourse analysis, hermeneutics, narrative inquiry, and phenomenology.