The general scope of this recently estabished network is to provide input on how to improve the conditions needed for the personal and professional development of adult educators and trainers, enhancing the attractiveness of their profession and therefore strengthening the idea of quality in adult education in Europe. This is to be achieved by stipulating some insight into key issues and challenges related to the adult educator and related staff, and by highlighting essential areas of action, current trends, good practices and relevant policies. On these grounds the aim of the proposed network is threefold:
- To bring forward the experience from all around Europe, on issues pertaining to the multiple roles, practices and settings in which adult educators and related staff act and grow.
- To report on current European projects and stimulate research in this area.
- To explore the way/s in which policies develop and analyse their possible impact.
A large variety of issues is to be addressed and researched within the network. A shortlist of themes and expected focus on areas of related research, may include -but not restricted to- topics such as initial education and training of adult educators and related staff; access, recruitment and career paths for adult educators & trainers; ageing and gendering of the adult educator; professionalisation of the adult educator, trainer, practitioner; attractiveness of the profession, employment situation, working environments and working conditions; continuing and in-service education and training for adult educators & assessment of their role; duties, roles and identities for adult educators and related staff; methods and qualities of practice, reflectivity and reflective practice; adult learner/participant - adult educator interaction & issues of power and authority; trade unionism, collaboration and networking among adult educators and related staff; policy making and its impact on adult educators’ roles and practices.
Inaugural meeting University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 6-8, 2009.
You will find more information on the conference "Education the Adult Educator: Quality Provision & assessment in Europe" on the website 
Aim of the conference: The network’s inaugural meeting is planned to be a forum for exchanging theoretical considerations and empirical evidence, between researchers studying the different roles and tasks of the adult educator and trainer and the ways that these are assessed, as well as issues relating to the quality of their training (initial and continuing) and their professional development. The meeting aims to bring together participants from different disciplines and countries who are interested in these topics. The
conference is also open to practitioners who are working in adult training organizations or educational structures that provide for adults including universities. Thus, the conference will bring insights from different parts of the academia together with insights from the field. The conference itself will therefore be a site of cross‐disciplinary learning.
The network will organise biennial meetings
Network convenors:
George Zarifis
Lecturer in Continuing Education,
Faculty Of Philosophy, School of Philosophy & Education Department of Education,
GR-54124, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Larissa Jogi
Assistant professor, Head of Chair of Andragogy,
Tallinn University, Estonia.
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jütte
University of Bielefeld, Faculty for Educational Science
AG 6 Weiterbildung und Bildungsmanagement
Universitätsstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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