Volume 1. Towards a comprehensive theory of human learning -- Part I: Human learning -- 1. A philosophical perspective on human learning -- 2. It is the person who learns -- 3. Learning in the social context -- 4. Experience -- from which we learn -- 5. The transformation of experience -- 6. The person: changing and becoming more experienced -- 7. Lifelong learning -- Part II: Towards a comprehensive theory -- 8. Learning and action -- 9. Cognitive theories -- 10. Emotions and learning -- 11. Experiential learning -- 12. Towards a comprehensive theory of human learning?

Volume 2. Globalisation, lifelong learning and the learning society: sociological perspectives. -- 1. Lifelong learning in the social context -- 2. Human learning within a structural context -- 3. Human learning within a global context -- 4. Outcomes of the globalisation process -- 5. The information and the knowledge society -- 6. The learning society -- 7. Lifelong learning -- 8. Life-wide learning -- 9. Participants in lifelong learning: teachers and students -- 10. The changing nature of research -- 11. Policies, practices and functions -- 12. The need for the learning society and lifelong learning -- Appendix: Infinite dreams, infinite growth, infinite learning -- the challenges of globalisation in a finite world.

Volume 3. Democracy, lifelong learning and the learning society: active citizenship in a late modern age -- 1. Lifelong learning and the learning society -- 2. Global and local lifelong learning policies in the knowledge economy -- 3. The spirit and values of modernity -- 4. Capitalism and society -- 5. The information society: learning global capitalist culture -- 6. Indoctrination and the learning society -- 7. Ethics and modernity -- 8. The ethics of lifelong learning and the learning society in global capitalist society -- 9. Democracy and the learning society -- 10. Utopia deferred -- 11. Back to the beginning? -- 12. A revolution in learning: a vision of a better learning society.