This unique text provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in adult education and lifelong learning and includes more than twenty-five articles from twenty-one years of the International Journal of Lifelong Education.

Part 1 - From Adult Education ... Deontological Liberalism: the political philosophy of liberal adult education. To a middle ground praxis and ideology in adult education. Thematization of power, the search for common interests, and self-reflection. Adult Literacy and the Mode of Production. Against Modernity: Ghandi and adult education. Gender and the curriculum of adult education. Part 2 - ...to Lifelong Education. Basil Yeaxlea and lifelong education. Lifelong education and adult education: the state of the theory. Globalization and lifelong education: reflection on some challenges for Africa. Education and work. Professional practice, learning and continuing education: an integrated perspective. Beyond legitimacy: Facing the future in distance education. Athene in academe: Women mentoring women in the academy. Education for sale: at what cost? Lifelong learning and the market place. Part 3 - ...and Lifelong Learning. The concept of experiential learning and John Dewey's theory of reflective thought and action. Adult education: a sartrean-based perspective. Making judgments as the basis for workplace learning. Being and Becoming: a student trajectory. The adulthood of Buddhahood: Buddism, lifelong learning and the education of desire. Part 4 - ...to the Learning Society and Beyond. The Learning Society. Social Capital, human capital and the learning society. Lifelong learning and welfare reform. The concept and problem of public enlightenment. Adult learning for citizenship: towards a reconstruction of the social purpose tradition. Beyond lifelong learning: a call to civically responsible change.

Peter Jarvis is Professor of Education at the University of Surrey. He is Editor of the International Journal of Lifelong Education, published by Taylor & Francis. He is author of many books in the field of adult education and lifelong learning, many of which are published by Routledge.