On assessing working life adult education

• Tapio Vaherva Jyväskylän yliopisto

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33336/aik.96821

Abstract

The article is an assessment of some recent wide-scoping development and education project carried out in the working life. ln addition to presenting the experiences and results of empirical research projects, the article takes a more general view of the quality issues connected to adult education from the aspects of planning, implementation and assessment. It appears that despite the availability of personnel training planning guides, textbooks and training for trainers during the past couple of decades, the adult education action models used in the working life are highly conventional, at times even school-like. Small and medium-large enterprises especially tend to continue to rely a lot on externally produced course and consulting services even despite the presence of in-house trainer potential.