Fields and Layers of Finnish Adult Education -programme (Suomalaisen aikuiskasvatuksen kentät ja kerrostumat) 2005 -

Researcher:

Professor Anja Heikkinen

Cooperation:

VSY, KVS, AIKE, Universities of Tampere, Turku, Helsinki, Adult Education Centre of Helsinki

Funding:

Universities, VSY, KVS etc.

Aim and content:

Aims at synthesising research and developing new openings in understanding adult education. Studies tensions and transformations in popular, vocational and higher adult education and in human resource development from the perspectives of changing paradigms of adult education, promoting growth and activating adults, the challenge of democracy; and of networks of influence in adult education. Senior and postdocs from adult and vocational education, social sciences and history.