An introduction (Maurice Amutabi et al.) begins this 25-chapter book on adult education and training (AET) in a context of globalization. Chapter titles and authors are as follows: "The Impact of Globalization on Adult Education (AE)" (Ove Korsgaard); "In Defense of Civil Society: Canadian AE in Neo-Conservative Times" (Michael Welton); "Women, Poverty, and AE in Chile" (Teresa Quiroz Martin); "The State, Civil Society, and the Economy: AE in Britain" (Keith Jackson); "Globalization from Below: The Trade Union Connections" (Judith Marshall); "Feminist Popular Education in the Light of Globalization" (Linzi Manicom, Shirley Walters); "Women on the Global Assembly Line" (Chan Lean Heng); "'Sit Down, Listen to the Women!'" (Daniel Moshenberg); "Personal, Professional, and Political Development for Women" (Pauline Murphy); "From Economic Dependency to Regional Self-Reliance" (Mildred Minty); "ETDP [Education, Training and Development Practitioner]: Passing Fad or New Identity?" (Jeanne Gamble, Shirley Walters); "The NQF [National Qualifications Framework], Reconstruction, and Development" (Rosemary Lugg); "The Politics of Memory: The Recognition of Experiential Learning" (Elana Michelson); "Workplace Training and Enskilling" (Jonathan and Ruth Winterton); "Race, Class, Gender, and Culture: A Possible Program" (Tammy Shefer, Joe Samuels, Tony Sardien); "Multicultural Education and Lifelong Learning" (Berndt Gustavsson, Ali Osman); "Aboriginal Education: A Case for Self-Determination" (Lillian Holt, Michael F. Christie, Norman Fry); "The Plight of AE in Kenya" (Maurice Amutabi); "Literacy Strategies among Unschooled Workers" (Mignonne Breier); "Dynamics and Process in the Training of Health Committees" (Mizana Matiwana); "Is Consensus Possible?" (Minnie Venter-Hildebrand, Charlene Houston); "On the Periphery: The Needs of Rural Women" (Ellen Gumede); "Lifelong Learning Reconsidered" (Berndt Gustavsson); "The Meaning of Lifelong Learning" (Staffan Larsson); and "The Worlds of the Hand and of the Mind" (Ove Korsgaard). Contributors' notes and an index are included. (YLB)