| “European Adult Education outside the EU": dvv international gains valuable overviews on adult learning | | Print | |
| Peter Brandt | 08.02.2010 | Publications - Book reviews [en] [de] | ||||||
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Uwe Gartenschläger (ed.): European Adult Education outside the EU. Edited by dvv international in cooperation with EAEA. Bonn 2009, 167 pages New publication by dvv international provides brief profiles of European adult education across the EU eastern borders. As we all know, something very different is understood under the concept of "Europe": Geographically, Europe stretches from the Atlantic to the Ural and even includes the Caucasus according to the demarcation line. Politically and culturally speaking, Europe turns out to be generally smaller, usually meaning only the EU states. This applies to a large extent for publications on European adult education, which relate to the EU education policies and support programmes. As a complement to this understanding, the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (dvv international) has devoted an instructive volume from its “International Perspectives in Adult Education” series – emerging from the development cooperation with these countries – to Europe. Typically of virtually the whole region is that the potential and significance of adult education is still nowhere to be seen, according to Uwe Gartenschläger (ed.) in the Editorial (p. 5). The brochure makes a virtue out of necessity and offers brief profiles of adult education in countries across the EU eastern borders, in which the spectrum of the states in question ranges from candidate countries, such as Croatia and Turkey, and the succession states of the former USSR (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Caucasian Republics) to Israel. The adult education infrastructure of these countries is described using a classification system: The articles are divided into the following sections: (1) policy, legislation, financing, (2) providers, (3) needs for and participation in adult education, (4) research and training, (5) international cooperation, and (6) challenges for the future. The situation in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia is the subject of an extensive overview article by Katarina Popovič (Belgrade), which is preceded by the individual articles on the other countries. The 167-page comprehensive brochure, attractively illustrated in parts, is free to download from the given link. |
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