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Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Southeastern Europe

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Editors:
  1. George A. Koulaouzides

    1. Hellenic Open University, Greece

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  2. Katarina Popović

    1. University of Belgrade, Serbia

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  • A book about how the supranational organizations and their neoliberal paradigm are acting oppressively in the face of the new and old small states’ efforts to develop adult education systems that could serve the personal development of its citizens.
  • A mosaic of approaches that illustrate the struggle to create conditions for empowerment and critical reflection within the adult education systems and lifelong learning practices in Southeastern Europe.
  • The vivid chapters of this volume, written by native scholars, reveal that as far as adult education and lifelong learning are concerned the citizens of this troubled corner of the world share more than it is widely known.

Part of the book series: International Issues in Adult Education (ADUL)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Critical Thinking, Empowerment & Lifelong Learning Policy

    • Katarina Popović, George A. Koulaouzides
    Pages 1-15

  3. Critical Reflection and Empowerment in adult Education Practice

    • George A. Koulaouzides
    Pages 17-26

  4. Pedagogical Dimensions of Participatory Democracy

    • Marta Gregorčič, Sabina Jelenc Krašovec
    Pages 27-39

  5. Community Empowerment Through Labor Education

    • Konstantinos Markidis, Ira Papageorgiou
    Pages 41-51

  6. Europeanization and Policy Instruments in Croatian adult Education

    • Tihomir Žiljak
    Pages 53-63

  7. Adult Education as an Alternative Medicine

    • Zoran Velkovski
    Pages 65-74

  8. The (In)Sufficiency of Legal Regulation Regarding Adult Education In Bosnia and Herzegovina

    • Snježana Šušnjara, Sandra Bjelan-Guska, Lejla Kafedžić, Lejla Hodžić
    Pages 75-87

  9. Adult Education in Cyprus

    • Christina Hajisoteriou
    Pages 89-100

  10. Participation Rates in Lifelong Learning

    • Simona Sava, Anca Luştrea
    Pages 101-114

  11. Becoming European

    • Sanja Djerasimović, Maja Maksimović
    Pages 115-130

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 131-134
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hellenic Open University, Greece

    George A. Koulaouzides

  • University of Belgrade, Serbia

    Katarina Popović

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Southeastern Europe

  • Editors: George A. Koulaouzides, Katarina Popović

  • Series Title: International Issues in Adult Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-173-5

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6351-173-5Published: 12 September 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: CXXXVI, 6

  • Topics: Education, general

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