Introduction -- Part 1: Learning -- 1 Learning to be a person in society : learning to be me -- Introduction -- Developing my understanding of human learning -- Towards a comprehensive theory of human learning -- A person's lifetime learning -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 It is the person who learns -- Dualism -- Monism -- Non-reductive monism -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Experience -- Experience as consciousness -- Experience as biography -- Experience as episodelevent -- Experience as expertise -- Concluding discussion -- References -- 4. Meaning -- Cultural meaning -- Personal and subjective meaning -- Meaning and learning -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. Being and having -- The distinction between being and having -- Being, having, and learning -- Education as having or being? -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 2: Learning and religion/spirituality -- 6 Learning as a religious phenomenon? The paradox of the question -- why? -- The human condition -- The birth of the self -- Why? -- The creation of order -- Conversion -- Growth and development -- Utopia -- Molding humankind -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 The spiritual dimension of human learning -- Setting the scene -- The spiritual dimensions of human learning -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 3: Learning and doing -- 8 Learning to be an expert : competence development and expertise -- The nature of knowledge -- The nature of practice -- The nature of human learning -- Some implications for vocational education -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Practitioner research and the learning society -- The idea of the learning society -- Learning and research -- Practitioner-researchers and the learning society -- Democratization of research -- Research and scholarship in the learning society -- Conclusion -- References.

Part 4: Teaching -- 10 Ethics of teaching : exploring the relationship between teacher and taught -- Teaching and the stranger : lecturing -- Teaching and totalising : managing the system -- Teaching and infinity : sharing and expanding -- Conclusion -- References -- 11 Teaching : an art or science (technology)? -- The concept of teaching -- Teaching as a technology -- The art of teaching -- Conclusion -- References -- 12 Transforming Asian education through open and distance learning : through thinking -- Human learning -- Critiques of non-reflective learning in educational settings -- Ways of thinking -- Some thoughts about teaching -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 5: Late modernity -- 13 The changing educational scene -- Modernity -- Changes in educational theory and practice -- Conclusion -- References -- 14 Infinite dreams, infinite growth, infinite learning : the challenges of globalisation in a finite world -- Infinite dreams : religious, political and economic utopias -- Infinite growth and the challenges of globalisation -- Infinite learning -- Conclusion -- References -- 15 Beyond the learning society : globalisation and the moral imperative for reflective social change -- The nature of the learning society -- The nature of human learning -- Omissions from the learning society discourse -- Beyond the learning society? -- Conclusion -- References -- 16. The end of a sensate age -- What next? -- The end of a senate age -- Globalisation and the emergence of the neo-liberal economic society -- What next? -- Conclusion -- References -- 17 Globalisation, knowledge and the need for a revolution in learning : can we really build a city of man? -- Modernity and the city of man -- Globalisation -- The knowledge economy and the end of the modernist dream -- A revolution in learning -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 6: Learning in later life -- 18 Learning meaning and wisdom -- Definition of meaning -- The concept of wisdom -- Conclusion -- References -- 19 Learning to retire -- The stages of a person's life -- Retirement -- Pre-retirement education -- Conclusion -- References.