This new volume provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art for the field of adult and continuing education. With contributions by 75 leading authors in the field the Handbook offers a solid foundation for understanding the current guiding beliefs, practices and tensions faced in the field. Adult education scholars, programme administrators, and teachers have depended upon these rich handbooks to develop and refine their own understandings and approaches to their work and scholarship.This volume offers expanded discussions in the areas of social justice, the impacts of technology, and the global dimensions of adult and continuing education. An entire section is devoted to the centrality of social justice in adult and continuing education with chapters included on gender and sexuality and adult education, race and adult and continuing education, adult and continuing education and an aging society, class and place in adult and continuing education, and perspectives on disability in adult and continuing education.