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Volume 31 Issue 2, July 2025
Special Issue: Europeanisation of adult education - prospects and challenges?
- Guest Editor: Rosanna Barros
- Guest Editor: Vida A Mohorčič Špolar
Editorial
Free accessEditorialFirst published May 19, 2025pp. 369–373
Articles
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The German tradition of critical theory (often called the Frankfurt School), represented by such authors as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Oskar Negt, have given crucial contributions to social and cultural theory in investigating and conceptualizing ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published July 24, 2024pp. 374–390
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This article focus on what is and isn’t ‘new’ in the most recent European Union (EU) key policy document for Adult Learning (AL), because it claims (in its own title) that it will constitute a basis for a ‘new’ agenda. As this document has been much ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published January 15, 2025pp. 391–415
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The EU policies about what to achieve and how to achieve through the education and training of adults have developed like norms for the EU member states which they find difficult to flout. With the declaration to achieve the European Education Area (EEA) ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published February 25, 2024pp. 416–438
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This study examines how six principals in Norwegian adult education centres (AECs) navigate and make sense of and navigate the multifaceted and uncertain environment in which they act. Specifically, the study aims to explore the significance of ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published April 15, 2024pp. 439–459
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The European Union’s policies on lifelong learning, initiated in the 1990s, have significantly influenced the development of Italy’s legislative framework in this area. This paper presents the key findings from a series of collaborative research projects ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published December 11, 2024pp. 460–479
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This article applies system theory to the analysis of the relationship between the EU and candidate country Serbia, with a focus on adult education policy. The study explores how the peripheral status of Serbia with its hybrid political regime combining ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published June 14, 2024pp. 480–502
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Participation rate in adult and continuing education (ACE) is one of the multiple indicators of distributive justice. Nonetheless, the literature of recent decades has turned it into a cardinal principle and value. Expansive paradigm that envisages the ...Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published May 21, 2024pp. 503–522
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The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted economic and social life across Europe and the wider world. Currently, the European Commission is heavily investing in recovery and resilience facilities to encourage economic and social reforms in Member ...Open AccessResearch articleFirst published August 20, 2024pp. 523–541
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