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The purpose of this volume is to illustrate and document contrasting approaches to lifelong education in selected Western European countries as well as in Japan, the United States of America, and the former Soviet Union. It provides an analysis of the features and factors affecting lifelong education in each case and identifies the socio-economic and political aspects of change along with the emerging structures of the forthcoming lifelong education systems. The chapters are: Introduction: lifelong learning revisited / David Atchoarena; Lifelong education in France / Pierre Caspar; Lifelong education in Germany / Klaus Kunzel; Lifelong learning in Japan / Research Department of Lifelong Learning (NIER); Trends in higher and lifelong education in the former Soviet Union; Lifelong education in Sweden reconsidered: concepts, organization and current trends / Kenneth Abrahamsson; Lifelong education and training in the United Kingdom: policies, patterns and trends / Gareth Parry; Lifelong education in the United States of America / Stephen Brookfield; The lifelong learner in the 1990s / OECD/CERI; Conclusions and implications for education policies / David Atchoarena.