{"title":"Past and Present Developments in the Professionalisation of Adult Learning and Education in Hungary","authors":"Viktória Beszédes, Éva Farkas","doi":"10.4312/as/13456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/as/13456","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to provide a descriptive analysis of the characteristics of adult learning and education as a profession in Hungary, with a particular emphasis on the professionalisation of the profession and its practitioners. In the study, we seek to answer the question of what the main characteristics of adult learning and education are and whether it can be classified as a profession in Hungary according to traditional theories of the profession. The topic was examined in detail along the lines of relevant literature and data obtained from content analysis of primary source documents. The study shows that the legitimacy of adult education in Hungary remains unclear, which is reflected in the context of the social prestige of adult education, its legislative environment, and the professionalisation of adult learning professionals, which have undergone many structural changes over the past nearly seven decades.","PeriodicalId":31462,"journal":{"name":"AS Andragoska Spoznanja","volume":"88 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136132305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Journey from Past to Present","authors":"Larissa Jõgi","doi":"10.4312/as/13473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/as/13473","url":null,"abstract":"The focus of this paper is on the development of andragogy as an academic discipline and andragogy programmes at Tallinn University. It also reviews the development of adult education in Estonia and outlines empirical findings from previous research related to the learning experiences and the professional identity of students and graduates of andragogy programmes. The research questions in this paper are: What are the main developments of adult education and andragogy as an academic discipline? How do andragogy students and graduates understand their learning experience and professional identity? The findings suggest that academic studies and learning experiences enable students to construct a strong learner identity, which impacts the formation of professional identity. The sense of professional identity becomes stronger during the period of academic studies and continues to develop as a self-developmental process with professional, educational, and personal choices.","PeriodicalId":31462,"journal":{"name":"AS Andragoska Spoznanja","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136132307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards the Essence of Andragogy – A Hermeneutical Reading of Grundtvig, Knowles, Lindeman and Savićević","authors":"Anita Malinen, Arja Piirainen","doi":"10.4312/as/14421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/as/14421","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to search for the essence of andragogy through a critical examination of andragogy theorists and thereby increase the theoretical understanding of andragogy. Systematic reviews in 2013 and in 2021 led us to probe more deeply into andragogical writings in search of the essence of andragogy. Writings by four classic theorists representing different andragogical approaches – Grundtvig, Knowles, Lindeman and Savićević – were selected for hermeneutic text interpretation. Based on the results, we formulated, as constituting the essence of andragogy, three intertwined principles: 1) lived experience, 2) reciprocal interaction, and 3) “power with”. Each principle expresses the qualities that describe its nature. These three principles are necessary and sufficient conditions for the andragogy to be present. If one of these principles is lacking, the wholeness of andragogy is absent, and the phenomenon does not exist.","PeriodicalId":31462,"journal":{"name":"AS Andragoska Spoznanja","volume":"1988 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136133159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Professional Status of Adult Educators","authors":"Andri Piliri, Maria N. Gravani","doi":"10.4312/as/14455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/as/14455","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reports findings from a research study carried out with adult education professionals working in Adult Education Centres (AECs) in Cyprus. It aims to explore how they experience their professional status in the programme as well as identify barriers that hinder their professionalisation and particular barriers caused in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study harnesses qualitative methodology and adopts a bottom-up approach as it gives voice to adult educators and makes meaning out of their working experiences. It makes suggestions for the improvement of their professional status based on the idea of humanisation, a multifaceted process in which both the state and adult educators themselves should become communions.","PeriodicalId":31462,"journal":{"name":"AS Andragoska Spoznanja","volume":"88 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136132304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prehodi od izobraževanja na trg dela: poskusi vstopanja v poklice blaginje in vključevanja na (trans)nacionalni trg dela","authors":"Nina Vodopivec","doi":"10.4312/as/13196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/as/13196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31462,"journal":{"name":"AS Andragoska Spoznanja","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135905105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vloga mentorja pri umetniškem ustvarjanju v skupini odraslih z motnjo v duševnem razvoju","authors":"Katja Palčič","doi":"10.4312/AS.22.2.53-66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/AS.22.2.53-66","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the findings of research on the mentor’s role in creative arts activities in a group of adults with intellectual disabilities. Over the period between 2014–2016, data has been collected employing the participant observation method and semi-structured interviews with mentors. The research proceeds from the assumption that creative arts play an important part in the life and education of a person with intellectual disabilities. The role of a mentor, who leads a group of people with intellectual disabilities, differs from the role of a mentor in a group of people without intellectual disabilities. The results of the study are presented in subsets which encompass the findings related to the following fields of mentor activities: group motivation, guidance, promoting participant independence, individualization and adaptation of the process to the needs of the participants, adjusting the activities to the actual age of the person with intellectual disabilities, involvement of participants in the formation of the process, and combination of different activities.","PeriodicalId":31462,"journal":{"name":"AS Andragoska Spoznanja","volume":"22 1","pages":"53-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70552446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motivacija delovno aktivnih starejših pri učenju tujih jezikov","authors":"Mateja Letnar, Klemen Širok","doi":"10.4312/as.20.2.41-54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/as.20.2.41-54","url":null,"abstract":"As an inevitable process facing modern societies, an aging population brings with it new and different challenges for social actors. The extension of working life requires increased investments in an older workforce, in order for these people to retain their employability and productivity. Globalisation and the ubiquity of information communication technology place increasing importance on foreign language knowledge – an area of deficiency among older workers. Knowledge of what motivates learners to learn foreign languages is thus also gaining importance. In conducting a survey of language school learners, we found that the motivation for learning foreign languages differs significantly between younger and older generations. As a result, employers, as well as language schools, will need to reconsider their current practices.","PeriodicalId":31462,"journal":{"name":"AS Andragoska Spoznanja","volume":"20 1","pages":"41-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70552638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Družinske prakse v poznejših letih kot izziv za učenje in raziskovanje","authors":"Nives Ličen","doi":"10.4312/AS.17.3.31-39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/AS.17.3.31-39","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the results of a qualitative study. The goal of this research study was to find out how and what couples learn while they experience the transition to parenthood and also whether, and how, the changing that occurs is connected with transformative learning. Transformative Learning Theory explains learning by making meaning of that life experience. The research included 12 couples expecting the first child. Biographical Method was used as the research method. The study showed that the transition from a childless relationship to parenthood is accompanied by transformative learning in various spheres of life. The most explicit was the transformative learning in the spheres of the relationship with the family of origin, in the formation of identity and in division of housework. The article also mentions the emotional dimension of learning, meaning-making, and presents other results of the research.","PeriodicalId":31462,"journal":{"name":"AS Andragoska Spoznanja","volume":"17 1","pages":"31-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70552564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Študij andragogike in izobraževanje andragogov","authors":"Ana Krajnc","doi":"10.4312/AS.17.2.12-27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4312/AS.17.2.12-27","url":null,"abstract":"There were a number of reason for a shortage of educated people in the post-war time. The state planned and dictated acce- lerated development of industry. There was a lack of skilled workers. The war had interrupted education of many individuals and there the casualties among intellectuals were greater than in the rest of population. The demand for qualified workers, recorded by employment agencies, exceeded the supply. As a result, education of adults in practice expanded rapidly. Prac- titioners required professional support and suitable literature. In 1956 the first lectures in andragogy were delivered within the framework of pedadgogy studies at the Faculty of Philo- sophy in Zagreb. In the years to follow, Prof Mihajlo Ogrizovi9, founder of the study subject, published the first works on andragogy Metode obrazovanja odraslih (Adult Education Methodology) and Problemi andragogije (Problems of Andra- gogy). In 1960 the Chair of Andragogy was set up at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade (Prof DuOan Savi9evi9, Borivoj Samolov:ev). My decision to get engaged in research into adult education was made while I was working at the Institute of Sociology (1967) and joined the first international comparative research study in this country, Education of Adults, Social Mobility and Social Participation. Lectures in General Andragogy and Andragogical Didactics began in Ljubljana in the Pedagogy Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in 1972. In 1976 the study of andragogy became o special course of study within the Department. In 1993/94 andragogy was introduced as an independent study. The Ministry of Education and Sport confirmed the new study programme within the framework of the European TEMPUS project. The new study programmes were devised under the influence of the best-known world institutes for adult education (The Andragogy Department of Montreal University, the European Bureau for Adult Education in London, Wellington College in Oxford, Institute for Andragology in Amsterdam, Andragogy Department of Charles University in Prague, etc.). This guaranteed international quality of the programme. My one-year post-doctoral specialization at the Institute in Toronto (1971) gave a final turn to the preparations of andragogy teaching. Professional and scientific literature augmented. An- dragogy gained a place in the national research programme. Simultaneously, a number of research studies were conducted within transnational research programmes, run by UNESCO, ICAE (International Council for Adult Education) and EU. In recent years, the study of andragogy underwent a new reform to meet higher education objectives as formulated by the Bologna Declaration.","PeriodicalId":31462,"journal":{"name":"AS Andragoska Spoznanja","volume":"17 1","pages":"12-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70552500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}