This publication contains an introduction and the 19 papers presented in workshops at a conference that addressed some issues relating to professionalization and the training and professional development needs in the area of adult education. Papers are as follows: "Training and Professional Development in Adult and Continuing Education" (Benn, Fieldhouse); "Cultural Awareness and Communication: A Perspective on Europe" (Arthur); "An Investigation of Professional Development Needs in Adult Education" (Benn); "The Search for a Core Curriculum in the Training of Senior Adult Education Personnel" (Cohen); "The Professionalization of Continuing Educators in the UK (United Kingdom): An Appropriate Model for the Future?" (Parker, Davies); "In-service Training and Development of Clinical Educators in Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine" (Farmer); "Adult Counselling: A Need, a Challenge, and an Opportunity for Developing a New Discipline" (Friedlander); "A Competency-based Approach to Initial and Continuing Professional Education" (Gonczi); "Theory and Practice in the Curriculum Preparing Educators of Adults" (Henschke); "Developing Professionals for Adult Education in Flanders" (Hinnekint); "Pedagogy, Androgogy, and Professional Education" (Jarvis); "Lifelong Learning--Holy Grail or Poisoned Chalice?" (Jowitt); "Principles behind the Generation of Adult Education in Local Arenas" (Larsson, Thang); "Adult Educators: Issues of Professionalisation" (Papanaoum); "A Conceptual Framework for Developing Adaptive Competency for Professionals" (Paprock);"Instructors-as-Researchers-and-Theorists: Faculty Development in a Community College" (Peters); "Adult Education Studies in Canada: Graduate and Undergraduate Programmes" (Wickett); "Self Reliance and Distance Education--The Case of Teachers in Tanzania" (Wort); "Towards a Comparative Study of Policy and Practice of Training and Development in Western Learning Societies" (Zeldin); and "The New Education of Adult Educators: What, Who, and Why?" (Zukas). (YLB)