Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Southeastern Europe / / edited by George A. Koulaouzides, Katarina Popović.

• Superior document: International Issues in Adult Education
• HerausgeberIn: Koulaouzides, George A.; Popović, Katarina.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed. 2017.
• Language: English
• Series: International Issues in Adult Education
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (CXXXVI, 6 p.)

Contemporary adult education policy development and lifelong learning practice are experiencing an autonomy loss imposed by the dominant neoliberal economic paradigm. As a consequence, in many countries, especially those that depend economically from supranational organizations and donors, the critical approach and its adjunct idea of emancipation have been sacrificed in favour of ambiguous developmental goals like employability, flexibility and adaptability. On the other hand, in many countries, adult education as a social movement is deeply rooted in the conviction that learning is an essential process related to personal transformation and social change. The result of this conflict between the external pressure for policies in favour of the labour market and the internal assumption about the value of emancipation has led to interesting insights that have produced policies and practices that attempt to reconcile these two forces of development. In this volume, we offer a consideration of the above paradoxical situation, and the critical view of adult education policy and practice in the region of Southeastern Europe. Some chapters in this volume present also positive lifelong learning practices, policy development analyses and conceptual understandings that highlight the efforts to develop adult education within a framework of the dominant neoliberal forces that shape European and international adult education policy.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / George A. Koulaouzides and Katarina Popović -- Critical Thinking, Empowerment and Lifelong Learning Policy / Katarina Popović and George A Koulaouzides -- Critical Reflection and Empowerment in Adult Education Practice / George A. Koulaouzides -- Pedagogical Dimensions of Participatory Democracy / Marta Gregorčič and Sabina Jelenc Krašovec -- Community Empowerment through Labor Education / Konstantinos Markidis and Ira Papageorgiou -- Europeanization and Policy Instruments in Croatian Adult Education / Tihomir Žiljak -- Adult Education as an Alternative Medicine / Zoran Velkovski -- The (In)Sufficiency of Legal Regulation Regarding Adult Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Snježana Šušnjara, , Sandra Bjelan-Guska, , Lejla Kafedžić and Lejla Hodžić -- Adult Education in Cyprus / Christina Hajisoteriou -- Participation Rates in Lifelong Learning / Simona Sava and Anca Luştrea -- Becoming European / Sanja Djerasimović and Maja Maksimović -- About the Contributors / George A. Koulaouzides and Katarina Popović.