Practitioner Concerns
Questions and concerns regarding practitioners’ work in adult, continuing, extension, and community education programs. Proposals may address problems and/or solutions in areas of practice such as curriculum design, strategy selection, teaching and learning, or program implementation. They may also address how practitioners view research related to their concerns.

Proposals should include:
• A description or outline of the concerns or questions.
• The importance of the concerns to both research and practice in adult, continuing, extension, and community education.
• Reference to various approaches that have attempted to deal with the concerns.
• A discussion of the way in which the concerns or questions relate to the conference theme of linking theory and practice.
• A brief description of how the session will be organized and how the presentation will address these concerns.

Criteria for selection
Proposals will be judged on the basis of overall clarity and specific responses to the items indicated above. Selection will be made on the basis of the following:
• Practitioner concerns are clearly described or delineated.
• The importance of the concerns is highlighted within one or more contexts of practice in adult, continuing, extension, and community education.
• The proposal clearly specifies new or expanded insights to be presented with regard to practitioner concerns.
• Linkages of research and theory to practice are addressed in the proposal.
• The proposed session is organized and presented in a creative and dynamic format.