Select аn issue in yоur аreа оf practice as an adult educatоr over which there are differing, opposing points of view. The issue should be clearly related to some facet of your work in helping adults learn: leadership for learning, program design and development, evaluation, or the process of learning for adults and organizations. Some examples of issues include the following, although you need not limit yourself to this list: Do organizations learn? Can adults learn on their own by engaging in challenging experiences without the benefit of additional facilitation by an educator? Should academic credit be awarded for prior learning? Can change in institutions of adult learning be initiated only from the top? Can adults gain a truly superior education via computer-based and web-based learning? Is it possible to measure significant learning outcomes? Do adult educators have a special responsibility to help adults learn to take collective social action? Is it misleading to promise adults that their efforts to become literate or to gain further education will be rewarded by society with jobs and socio-economic success? After you have selected an issue, write an essay that addresses these three areas. Give the third part of this assignment the most time. Describe the issue and clearly state your opinion as to where you stand on the issue, the evidence that you have that supports your opinion, and the reasoning that leads you to your conclusions. In other words, what evidence, authority and arguments can you advance to justify why you hold the opinion you hold? State an alternative position on the issue. Take the perspective of someone who disagrees with your view as you have described it. What evidence, authority and arguments can you advance to justify this alternative opinion? Now go back to your own view of the issue. Comment critically on the validity of the evidence, authority, arguments or your conclusion as cited in (1) above. Are there circumstances or conditions under which the evidence, authority and arguments - as well as your conclusions - would be less convincing or less true? What taken-for-granted beliefs and assumptions might be influencing your opinion - for example, societal perceptions, professional or cultural norms, or organizational politics? Do feelings enter into your argument, and if so, how do they affect your opinion?