1. Editorial introduction

   • Paul Bélanger
   • Ettore Gelpi

   EditorialNotes Pages: 191 - 193

2. The politics of adjustment and lifelong education: The case of Argentina

   • Maria Teresa Sirvent

   OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 207

3. Positive discrimination in education: Its justification and a Chilean example

   • Juan Eduardo S. Garcia-Huidobro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 209 - 221

4. Formation des enseignants dans une perspective d'education permanente au benin

   • Sébastien Agboton
   • Yaya Mede Moussa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 234

5. Quelques facteurs sociaux agissant sur la formation permanente et l'education informelle en Algerie

   • Mustapha Haddab

   OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 243

6. Recurrent education policy in Sweden: A moving target

   • Kjell Rubenson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 256

7. Le conte Africain: L'univers de l'oralite dans le systeme de l'enseignement

   • Paola Belpassi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 257 - 270

8. Lifelong education in china: New policies and activities

   • Xie Guo-Dong

   OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 281

9. The “biographical question” as a challenge to adult education

   • Peter Alheit

   OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 298

10. HIstoires de vie et formation de nouveaux savoirs vitaux

    • Gaston Pineau

    OriginalPaper Pages: 299 - 311

11. Educational challenges to Poland at the time of transition

    • Wladyslaw Adamski

    OriginalPaper Pages: 313 - 317

12. L'ecole de la vie

    • Sally N'dongo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 323

13. Alphabetisation conscientisante comme base d'une education permanente

    • Nicephore Ndimurukundo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 332

14. Patterns of lifelong education in Japan

    • Yasushi Maehira

    OriginalPaper Pages: 333 - 338

15. L'homme de la reponse et l'homme de la question

    • Paul Lengrand

    OriginalPaper Pages: 339 - 342

16. L'education permanente: Principe revolutionnaire et pratiques conservatrices

    • Ettore Gelpi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 343 - 351

17. Lifelong learning: The dialectics of “lifelong educations”

    • Paul Belanger

    OriginalPaper Pages: 353 - 381

18. Lifelong learners in the literature: Adventurers, artists, dreamers, old wise men, technologists, unemployed, little witches and yuppies

    • Ursula Giere

    OriginalPaper Pages: 383 - 393

19. Competition announcements

    Announcement Pages: i - iii

20. Forthcoming issue: Volume 40, no. 6

    Announcement Pages: iv - iv