The Rise and Fall of Adult Education Institutions and Social Movements.

What is it about?

The Conference featured speakers from a range of European countries, including Austria, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, plus a number of other countries, including Australia, Hong Kong, Iran, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Themes of the Conference included: Theoretical Frameworks, Adult Education and Democratisation, Adult Education in Mining Areas, Institutional Responses: University Adult Education, Social Movements and Adult Education, Liberal or Vocational?, Adult Education Organisations at National Level, and Adult Education since the Second World War. The Proceedings include a keynote address by Professor Lalage Bowen, Emeritus Professor of Adult Continuing Education at the University of Glasgow, on the subject, ‘ Mobilisation, Popular Participation and Sustainable Development. Themselves in the Recent Development of Adult Education in Poor Countries. ‘

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Why is it important?

Contributors were drawn mainly from English and German speaking countries, and show that adult education/androgogy/popular enlightenment made a significant contribution to the rise of democracy, and in the case of interwar Germany, were one of the first institutions to be suppressed by fascism.

Perspectives

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I was particularly impressed by the work of Professor Martha Friedenthal Haase and her research team at the Department of Andragogy, University of Jena, Germany, who had made a close study of the work of the Thuringian Association of Folk High Schools in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933.

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