Subjects to citizens: adult learning and the challenges of democracy in the twenty-first century / Michael Welton -- Literacy and UNESCO: conceptual and historical perspectives / Daniel Wagner -- Adult education of women for social transformation: reviving the promise, continuing the struggle / Nelly P. Stromquist -- From the quixotic to the pragmatic: the Hamburg Declaration, adult education, and work / Amy Rose -- Adult learning, education, and the environment / Darlene E. Clover, Robert Hill -- Adult learning and the promise of new technologies / Dejan Dinevski, Marko Radovan -- The gap between aspiration and practice / Alan Tuckett -- The economics of adult education / Richard Desjardins -- Whither utopia? / Tom Nesbit