Introduction: lifelong learning or permanent schooling? -- Part 1: Theoretical perspcetives -- 1. Lifelong learning, lifelong learning, lifelong learning: a recurrent education? -- 2. Community education and lifelong learning: local spice for global fare? -- 3. The death of mass higher education and the birth of lifelong learning -- 4. The corporate university -- 5. Rights and obligations: values in lifelong education as a political programme -- 6. The evolution of the learning society: brain science, social science and lifelong learning -- Part 2: Curriculum -- 7. Care or control? defining learners' needs for lifelong learning -- 8. Adult cognition as a dimension of lifelong learning -- 9. Learning for living: opportunities and approaches within the school curriculum -- 10. Learning work and community: vocational studies and social values in the learning age -- 11. Life politics and popular learning -- Part 3: International perspectives -- 12. Lifelong learning for a new society: the Sothe African case -- 13. Confucianism, cultural revolution and corporate cassrooms: china's attempts at a learning society' -- 14. Lifelong learning in Australia -- 15. Lifelong learning: a Nort American perspective -- 16. Europe and lifelong learning: investigating the political and educational rationale of expansionism

1. Adult learning
2. Adult education
3. Continuing education