This volume includes the following papers: "Foreword: The Standing International Conference on the History of Adult Education (AE)" (Franz Poeggeler); "Editor's Introduction: Perspectives on the Sixth International Conference on the History of AE" (Martha Friedenthal-Haase); two special addresses by Joerg Prinzhausen and Ursula Giere; "History of AE as History of Adult Educators" (Poeggeler); "Status of Biographical History and Career Research in International AE" (Wijetunga); "Aspects of Western European AE" (Lengrand); "Some Problems of Biographical Writing in AE" (Thomas); "Volksbildung auf der Schwelle zum 21. Jahrhundert [Popular Education on the Threshold of the 21st Century]" (Rovan); "Personality and Biography: Dimensions of Educational Psychology" (Brunner);"Biographische Erfahrungen und Weiterbildungsbereitschaft [Biographical Experiences and Readiness to Undertake Further Education]" (Prokop, Schroll-Decker); "Educational Processes in the Biographies of Women in Rural Areas" (Kaschuba); "Konstellationen frueher Erwachsenenbildungsforschung in Deutschland [Constellations of Early German AE Research]" (Broedel); "Can Women Be Placed at the Heart of AE and Its History?" (Benn); "Historische und gegenwaertige Typen von Erwachsenenbildnern in Ungarn [Hungarian Adult Educationalists: Some Historical and Contemporary Categories]" (Petho); "Fachgruppen [Specialist Groups]" (Filla); "Hagiographies in Medieval Serbian Education of Adults" (Popovic); "Vocational Adult Training in East Germany after 1989" (Dewe, Meister); "Handing over Knowledge or Fostering Education?" (Maroti); "Probleme der Neuorientierung [Problems of Reorientation]" (Pugachev); "Jena--An Innovative Center of AE" (Meilhammer); "Wilhelm Rein, Founding Father of AE at the University of Jena" (Vogel); "Originality and Practicality of the Adult Educational Theories of Dr. Jure Turic, Croatian Graduate of the University of Jena (1892)" (Klapan, Lavrnja); "Meine Lehrzeit in der Erwachsenenbildung ['My Apprenticeship in AE']" (Kessler); "Zur existentiellen Dimension der Erwachsenenbildung in der ehemaligen DDR [On the Existential Dimension of AE in the Former East Germany]" (Rothe); "Bedeutung und Funktion von Weiterbildungsprozessen fur die Gestaltung von Lebenslaeufen [The Significance and Function of Further Education Processes in the Shaping of Careers]" (Schaefer); "Biography as Paradigm" (Alheit); "Das Archiv fuer Erwachsenenbildung in Niedersachsen [The Archive for AE in Lower Saxony]" (Gierke); "Historische Bildungsforschung mit neuen Medien in Jena [Jena-based Research into Educational History using Modern Media]" (Friedrich); and "Reactivating the Past" (Poeggeler). (YLB)