Ethics, Ideals and Ideologies in the History of Adult Education

Contributors to this book examine 19th and 20th centuries' adult education with a special approach so as to identify the particular influence of ethics, ideals and ideologies. Apart from general papers assessing the changing role of adult education worldwide, this anthology, according to papers to have been presented at the VIIIth International Conference of the History of Adult Education in Pecs--Hungary, mainly reflects how the personality, societal values and politics have modified the mission of adult education. Contents: Franz Poggeler: Foreword--Balazs Nemeth: Preface--Franz Poggeler: 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--Laszlo Felkai: Einfluss von Ideen und Institutionen auf die Erwachsenenbildung in Ungarn--Jurij Jug: Die Wandlung der Volk- und Arbeitsuniversitaten 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 theMaking of &la" 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--Bjorn Paape: ThNemeth, Balazs is the author of 'Ethics, Ideals and Ideologies in the History of Adult Education' with ISBN 9780820454405 and ISBN 0820454400.