Contents: Jurgen Oelkers: Introduction - John Field: Lifelong Learning: Concepts and Research - David Raffe: Bringing Academic Education and Vocational Training Closer Together - Uwe Lauterbach in cooperation with Wolfgang Hellwig: Occupational Mobility and Mobility in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET): An International Comparison - Kenneth King: The International Steering of Education Systems: The Case of the World Bank in the Fields of Work, Education and Occupation - Anja Heikkinen: Transformation of Vocational Education in the Gender Perspective - Volker Bank: Problems of Planning and Control in Educational Processes - David Tyack/Benjamin Justice: Vocational Education in the U.S.: Some Historical Perspectives - Stephen J. Ball: Education for Profit and Standards in Education: The Ethical Role of Markets and the Private Sector in State Systems - Philipp Gonon: The Educationalisation of Occupations, Further Education and Training - The Requiem Programme of Education - Rudolf Tippelt: The Task of Adult Education - Stephen F. Hamilton/Mary Agnes Hamilton: Learning by Teaching: How Instructing Apprentices Affects Adult Workers - Nel Noddings: Preparing for Work - Michael Barber: From Good to Great: Large-Scale Education Reform in England - Rita Sussmuth: Globalisation and its Impact on Education - Peter Meyer-Dohm: Education and Employment in the Globalisation Age.