This book contains the following papers from a European research seminar examining the history and theory of cross-cultural communication in adult education: "Introduction" (Stuart Marriott, Barry J. Hake); "Formative Periods in the History of Adult Education: The Role of Social and Cultural Movements in Cross-Cultural Communication" (Barry J. Hake); "Adult Education and Associated Life in Frankfurt am Main and Barcelona: A Structural Comparison" (Wolfgang Seitter); "'With Fire and Faith': R. G. Moulton's University Extension Mission to the United States" (Janet Coles); "The Colonial Metaphor and the Mission of Englishness: Adult Education and the Origins of English Studies" (Tom Steele); "The Invention of Dutch Andragogy: The Role of Octavia Hill and Paul Natorp" (Bastiaan van Gent); "Fifty Years of an Educational Mission: The 'Tutorial Class' Movement in Anglo-German Perspective" (Stuart Marriott); "Policy-Borrowing and Adaptation in the Development of Continuing Education in Northern Ireland, 1921-1950" (John Field); "Cross-Cultural Communication in European Adult Education since the Second World War: Participants, Purposes, and Problems" (Colin Titmus); "A Geneva Experiment in University Extension in the 1890s" (Michele E. Scharer); "Debate or Babel? University Extension in the Netherlands" (Xandra de Vroom); "Institutions and Activities of Adult Education in Slovenia to the 1920s" (Jurij Jug); "Helena Radlinska and the School of Adult Education and Social Work at the Free University of Poland" (Zofia Waleria Stelmaszuk); "Edgar Zilsel, Science and Popular Education in Vienna in the Early Twentieth Century" (Johann Dvorak); "Making Popular Education Known to the Public: Dissemination of 'Volkhochschulen' in Austria 1870-1930" (Christian Stifter); and "Conditions, Aims and Functions of State Policy for Adult Education: The Austrian Example in Historical and Contemporary Perspective" (Gerhard Bisovsky). (MN)