This monograph contains six papers examining the field of adult education, especially in Finland and England. It explores how the body of knowledge and theory on adult education has developed and suggests where the profession of adult education and its students are headed. Titles and authors are as follows: "Legitimization in Adult Education: An Introduction to Recent Problems" (Matti Parjanen); "Certification and the Bureaucratic State" (Peter Jarvis); "Towards Transformative Evaluation of Training" (Antti Kauppi); "Work Organizations and the Expansion of Continuing Professional Education in Universities" (Mauri Panhelainen); "Lifelong Learning in Contemporary Society" (Peter Jarvis); and "Theories of Sociology of Education and Multiprofessional Education" (Matti Parjanen). Each paper contains a reference list. (KC)