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Eero Pantzar presents the outlines of the development of adult education in Finland from the early beginning in the 19th century up to today. Popular education was seen as one of the necessary preconditions for the growth of general welfare, economic development and the individual’s personal growth. The first decades of the nation’s independence (1917 -) saw a strong boom in liberal adult education. This was most clearly indicated by the growing number of institutions and organisations providin…
Referring to the KOSMOS project, the article examines the significance of quality in academic continuing education, the requirements directed at quality management, and options for development in the project. The focus is on new programmes for non-traditional target groups.
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…
Ausgewählte Publikationen und Forschungsprojekte kurz und bündig auf einer Seite vorgestellt. Ein Format des DIE-Wissenstransfers in Deutsch und Englisch. Selected publications and research projects presented briefly on one page. A format of the DIE knowledge transfer in German and English.
Wir haben festgestellt ..., daß es ein schwieriges Unterfangen ist, sich Europa zu nähern. Schon das, was mit Europa gemeint ist, zerfasert bei genauerem Blick: Weder geographisch noch politisch noch kulturell hat Europa klare Grenzen. So stand es im Editorial des Themenheftes Europa und Bildung, das wir vor drei Jahren als Nr. IV/1995 dieser Zeitschrift veröffentlichten. Erst drei Jahre, und nun wieder das gleiche Thema? Welch einfallslose Redaktion! Sogar so einfallslos, diesen beiden Europa-…
