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This study is the first extensive attempt to chart the rise and fall of popular educational movements across Europe following the 1848 revolutions to their demise at the outbreak of World War Two. It examines in detail the relationships between the educational, political and social aspirations of the emergent nationalist, workers' and women's movements, and the challenge to traditional intellectuals and academic knowledge. Following the emergence of the bourgeois public sphere in the early mode…
Der Beitrag stellt Konzeption und Implementierung eines neuartigen erwachsenenpädagogischen Studienganges, des European Master in Adult Education (EMAE), als Beitrag zur akademischen Professionalisierung kritisch dar. Als zentrale Aspekte werden curriculare Kernthemen, didaktisch-methodische Ansätze und Arbeitsmarktbezug des Studiengangs aufgegriffen. Vor dem Hintergrund der ersten Implementierungserfahrungen wird das Konzept des Studiengangs auf seine Relevanz und Weiterentwicklungspotenziale…
The Plan to market transition brought with it the restructuring of the labour market, but also unemployment, new job profiles, and ongoing reform of the education system. Within the catch-up process of joining the EU and harmonizing the legislative framework and developments with the aquis communautaire, the effort to set up and implement effective policies was relatively coherent. But the results achieved so far show that much more efforts are needed, as the participation rate of adults in edu…
The English text gives an overview of the ESNAL project (European Service Network for Adult Learning). This explores the current discussion relating to quality assurance in the domain of further education in the individual EU countries.
