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Direct linkJan Kalenda; Jitka Vaculíková; Ilona Kocvarová – Cogent Education, 2024
This study explores gender-related inequality in participation in Adult Education and Training (AET) in four countries with vastly different adult learning systems and support measures for women's AET. Our examination of the data from an original international survey conducted in 2022 has found that the participation of men and women clearly…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Cross Cultural Studies
The Formation of the Willing Citizen -- Tracing Reactive Nihilism in Late Capitalist Adult Education
Olson, Maria; Dahlstedt, Magnus; Fejes, Andreas; Sandberg, Fredrik – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2018
The role of education in citizen training has been well mapped out in youth education. What has been less studied is how this role comes into being in adult education. By providing illustrative empirical examples from a recently completed study of adult students enrolled in adult education, this article aims to offer a theoretical response to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Citizenship Education, Role of Education
Lövgren, Johan – Human Rights Education Review, 2022
Citizenship education played a crucial role in the 19th century transition from royal sovereignty to democracy in the Nordic region, with folk high schools (FHS) playing an important role. While established to empower the people ("folk") for active participation in society, the contemporary folk high schools have reoriented from their…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Folk Schools, Civil Rights, Educational History
Chang, Bo – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2013
The article explores how education promotes social change. Using the philosophical foundations of adult education outlined by Elias and Merriam (2001, "Philosophical foundations of adult education" (3rd ed.), Krieger) as an analytical framework, the article compares the similarities and differences between popular education forms in two…
Descriptors: Social Change, Folk Schools, Foreign Countries, Adult Development
