DAVID ASPIN is Emeritus Professor of Education, School of Graduate Studies, and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Prior to this he was Professor of Philosophy of Education at King's College London and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy of Education in the Institute of Education, both in the University of London. With Judith Chapman he is co-author of the publication The School, the Community and Lifelong Learning (London: Cassell 1997) and, with Judith Chapman, Michael Hatton and Yukiko Sawano, co-editor of the International Handbook on Lifelong Learning (Dordrecht: Kluwer 2001). In 1999 he was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the International Studies Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Como, Italy; in 2004 was appointed a Visiting Professor at the Nottingham University. In 2007 he was elected a Visiting Fellow at St Edmund’s College Cambridge. In 2006 he was editor of two volumes in the Springer Press “Lifelong Learning” series – Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning, and (with Judith Chapman) Values Education and Lifelong Learning. His current research centres on lifelong learning, principally its epistemological, mental and methodological aspects; and on values and values education, principally their normative conclusions and meta-ethical aspects. JUDITH D CHAPMAN AM is Professor of Education and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Education at Australian Catholic University. Judith was formerly Professor of Education Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) of the combined faculties of Economics, Commerce, Education and Law at the University of Western Australia and Director of the School Decision-making and Management Centre at Monash University in Australia. KAREN EVANS is Professor of Education ( Lifelong Learning) at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she was formerly Head of the School of Lifelong Education and International Development. Her mainresearch interests are learning in life and work transitions, and learning in and through the workplace. Books include Improving Literacy at Work ( 2011); Learning, Work and Social Responsibility (2009); Improving Workplace Learning (2006); Reconnection: Countering Social Exclusion through Situated Learning (2004); Working to Learn (2002); Learning and Work in the Risk Society (2000). She was Editor of COMPARE, the journal of comparative and international education, between 2004 and 2009 and is currently a leading researcher in the Economic and Social Research Council’s Research Centre (LLAKES) on Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies. She is an Academician of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. RICHARD G. BAGNALL is a Professor in Adult and Vocational Education and Dean (Research) for the Arts, Education and Law Academic Group at Griffith University, Australia. His scholarly work is in the social philosophy of adult and lifelong education, with particular emphasis on the ethics of educational theory, advocacy and policy. He has published over 100 books and papers in that field, including Cautionary Tales in the Ethics of Lifelong Learning Policy and Management: A Book of Fables (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2004), and Discovering Radical Contingency: Building a Postmodern Agenda in Adult Education (New York: Peter Lang, 1999). His teaching is centred on the philosophy of adult and lifelong learning. He has supervised to graduation the doctoral studies of over 25 doctoral and 30 research masters and honours degree candidates.

• Foreword; Arne Carlsen.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction and Overview; David N. Aspin, Karen Evans, Judith D. Chapman and Richard Bagnall.- Part I: History, Theory, and Philosophy; Section Editor: David N. Aspin.- Part II: The Policy Challenge; Section Editor: Karen Evans.- Part III: Programmes and Practices; Section Editor: Judith D. Chapman.- Part IV: A Critical Stocktaking; Section Editor: Richard G. Bagnall.- List of Contributors.- Index.

DAVID ASPIN is Emeritus Professor of Education, School of Graduate Studies, and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Prior to this he was Professor of Philosophy of Education at King's College London and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy of Education in the Institute of Education, both in the University of London. With Judith Chapman he is co-author of the publication The School, the Community and Lifelong Learning (London: Cassell 1997) and, with Judith Chapman, Michael Hatton and Yukiko Sawano, co-editor of the International Handbook on Lifelong Learning (Dordrecht: Kluwer 2001). In 1999 he was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the International Studies Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Como, Italy; in 2004 was appointed a Visiting Professor at the Nottingham University. In 2007 he was elected a Visiting Fellow at St Edmund’s College Cambridge. In 2006 he was editor of two volumes in the Springer Press “Lifelong Learning” series – Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning, and (with Judith Chapman) Values Education and Lifelong Learning. His current research centres on lifelong learning, principally its epistemological, mental and methodological aspects; and on values and values education, principally their normative conclusions and meta-ethical aspects. JUDITH D CHAPMAN AM is Professor of Education and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Education at Australian Catholic University. Judith was formerly Professor of Education Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) of the combined faculties of Economics, Commerce, Education and Law at the University of Western Australia and Director of the School Decision-making and Management Centre at Monash University in Australia. KAREN EVANS is Professor of Education ( Lifelong Learning) at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she was formerly Head of the School of Lifelong Education and International Development. Her mainresearch interests are learning in life and work transitions, and learning in and through the workplace. Books include Improving Literacy at Work ( 2011); Learning, Work and Social Responsibility (2009); Improving Workplace Learning (2006); Reconnection: Countering Social Exclusion through Situated Learning (2004); Working to Learn (2002); Learning and Work in the Risk Society (2000). She was Editor of COMPARE, the journal of comparative and international education, between 2004 and 2009 and is currently a leading researcher in the Economic and Social Research Council’s Research Centre (LLAKES) on Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies. She is an Academician of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. RICHARD G. BAGNALL is a Professor in Adult and Vocational Education and Dean (Research) for the Arts, Education and Law Academic Group at Griffith University, Australia. His scholarly work is in the social philosophy of adult and lifelong education, with particular emphasis on the ethics of educational theory, advocacy and policy. He has published over 100 books and papers in that field, including Cautionary Tales in the Ethics of Lifelong Learning Policy and Management: A Book of Fables (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2004), and Discovering Radical Contingency: Building a Postmodern Agenda in Adult Education (New York: Peter Lang, 1999). His teaching is centred on the philosophy of adult and lifelong learning. He has supervised to graduation the doctoral studies of over 25 doctoral and 30 research masters and honours degree candidates.

• Foreword; Arne Carlsen.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction and Overview; David N. Aspin, Karen Evans, Judith D. Chapman and Richard Bagnall.- Part I: History, Theory, and Philosophy; Section Editor: David N. Aspin.- Part II: The Policy Challenge; Section Editor: Karen Evans.- Part III: Programmes and Practices; Section Editor: Judith D. Chapman.- Part IV: A Critical Stocktaking; Section Editor: Richard G. Bagnall.- List of Contributors.- Index.