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During the last two decades, widening adult participation in higher education has become a central issue in international and especially European lifelong learning policy debates. At European level this is reflected in the Europe 2020 strategy set out by the European Commission. One headline target is to boost the share of the population aged 30–34 that has completed tertiary or equivalent education to 40 per cent by 2020. In the face of general trends such as the intensive use of ICT, the evol…
This issue of REPORT focuses on current trends in adult and continuing education in various European countries, with a particular emphasis on the situation in Spain, Romania, Finland, Great Britain and Germany. Documenting the results of an international lecture series held at the University of Essen-Duisburg, the essays, for the first time, are presented in English. The articles gathered in this REPORT may serve as a point of departure for further studies in this area of research and contribut…
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-…
Recent international trends in Adult Education (AE) mirror the diverse realities this field is experiencing around the world. This article discusses the trend towards democratization through a revision of existing knowledge in three main domains: theory, research and practice. First, a theoretical framework of democratization as applied in AE will be outlined. Second, recent research developments will be reviewed as they inform the process of democratization through Adult Education which is occ…
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.
This contribution summarizes the most important trends in further education in Germany as they were elaborated in a secondary analytic research project of the DIE (Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenbildung – German Institute for Adult Education) in 2007. According to the study, participation in adult education in Germany is increasing after long years of decrease, even though, overall, financing of adult education has been further reduced. Cooperation as well as competition between adult educatio…
