Ethics, Ideals and Ideologies in the History of Adult Education

The Editors: Balázs Németh is Reader in Adult Education and vice-head of Department of Adult Education at the University of Pécs, Hungary. Franz Pöggeler is Professor Emeritus of General Pedagogy at the Technical University of Aachen, Germany.

Contents : Franz Pöggeler: Foreword - Balázs Németh: Preface - Franz Pöggeler: The Globalisation of Adult Education and the One World Concept: Aspects of their History, Present and Future - Roger Fieldhouse: Adult Education in a Voluntary Social Movement: the Educational Work of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1959-94 - Bastiaan van Gent: Adult Education and Cooperation: The History of a Dutch Walden - Elke E. Theile: Wertfragen in der Erwachsenenbildung. Eine wissenschaftstheoretische und methodologische Herausforderung an die Geschichte der Erwachsenenbildung - László Felkai: Einfluss von Ideen und Institutionen auf die Erwachsenenbildung in Ungarn - Jurij Jug: Die Wandlung der Volk- und Arbeitsuniversitäten Sloweniens von 1945-1991 - Hanna Solarzyk: Die Ideen und Ideologien der Polnischen Heimvolkshochschulen vor und nach der Wende 1989 - Katarina Popovic: Basic Conceptions and Aims in Some Theories of Adult Education Through History - Tom Steele: The Role of Scientific Positivism in European Popular Educational Movements: France and Radical Free Masonry - Anthony Cooke: Samuel Smiles and the Ideology of Self Help - Maria Bouverne-De Bie: How Adult Education Participates in the Making of 'Active Society' - Heribert Hinzen: Local and Global Experiences and Dimensions of German Adult Education - Marcie Boucouvalas: Adult Education and The Human Rights Movement: Toward a Global Research Agenda for the History of Adult Education - Björn Paape: The Performance-Directed or Task-Oriented Approach as a Teaching and Learning Concept in Adult Education - László Peth-: Die Hauptbestrebungen der ländlichen Erwachsenenbildung in Mitteleuropa - Karl Pütz: Ideological and Paradigmatic Changes in the History of a German Further Education Centre - Based on the Centre of Further Education, Aachen - John Aitchison: Struggle and Compromise: A History of South African Adult Eduction from 1960 to 1999 - Robert Turner: Idealists and Liberal Adult Education in the West of Scotland - Roseanne Benn: Through a Glass Darkly: The Seduction of an Adult Education Social Movement - Luc Dekeyser: Adult Education and Social Movements: a Century of (Informal) Learning in Social Movements - Nicolae Sacalis: Grundtvig: from a European and Romanian Perspective - Gizella Cser: Self-fulfilling Prophecy in Adult Education as an Ethical Issue - Renata Cepic: The Social-historical Conditionality of the Constitution and Activities of Croatian People's and Workers' Universities - Sigvart Tøsse: The Transformation of Adult Education from Culture to the World of Work - Roger Morris: Lloyd Ross and the Education of Australian Workers - Jukka Tuomisto: From the Workers' Education to the Work Development. Historical Stages and Changing Interests in the Finnish Trade Union Education - Dénes Koltai/Balázs Németh: Social Based Adult Education: The Development of Workers' Education and Training in Pécs - Hungary at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century - Peter Jarvis: Adult Education - an Ideal of Modernity: The End of Adult Education as a Social Movement - Matti Ropponen: The History of the Finish: Adult Education System - Ilija Lavrnja/Anita Klapan: Advanced Teaching Movement in Croatia and Its Influence on National Education - Julia Mryakina: Some Changes in the Sphere of Adult Education in Russia in the Transitional Period: Socio-Psychological Aspects - Simona Sava: Adult Education in Romania in the Last Ten Years - Requirements and Realities - Janusz Gajda: Social-Educational Aims and Forms of Adult Education on Distance in the 1980s in Poland; TV Vocational Agricultural School and Radio-TV High School for Working