Adult education's special problems in an integrating Europe

• John Lowe University of Warwick

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33336/aik.96859

Abstract

The author lays down his reasons for why adult education and adult training should be invested in and why we need well-organised national adult education systems. Considering the continent as a whole, European adult education has many special problems common to several countries: primarily the less-priviliged and literacy-impaired adults, as well as the mothers of children of school age, single parents and the elderly. !n addition, the author looks at the role of universities in European adult education; i.e. that universities should evolve into cultural institutions where campus limits correspond to national boundaries.