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Complaints about the governmental withdrawal from public responsibility for adult education are most common nowadays. The "retrospects" shows how the perception of public responsibility during the last three decades of the 20th century has changed in the mirror of different political guidelines and an altering public interest in adult education.
The Need for Comparative Research on the History of Adult Education and its Challenges Research on the history of adult education has been established as a sub-discipline of adult educational science – however, mainly in a national context. Even nowadays comparative research on the history of adult education is still a step-child of research, facing major challenges which are consequently also problems of presentation.
»57/07« steckt den zeitlichen Horizont ab, der die Geschichte des Instituts markiert: 1957 gegründet, wird das DIE im Herbst 2007 50 Jahre alt. So ist die vorliegende Ausgabe eine Festausgabe – und irgendwie auch doch nicht. Wie in der DIE Zeitschrift üblich, soll nicht das Institut selbst im Mittelpunkt stehen, sondern das, was draußen passiert (ist). Gliederndes Prinzip bei der Auswahl der Themen sind dabei öffentlich bedeutende Ereignisse des Gründungsjahres, die ihre Schatten weit in die Fo…
