Aspects of Adult Education

The Meaning of Adult Education

Helps promote the development of democracy:

• Encourages active citizenship;
• Is an efficient tool for influencing people.

Helps promote personal development:

• Encourages people to develop their personality;
• AE is the way of carrying on traditions and of strengthening cultural identity.

Aspects of Adult Education

AE political aspect
Readiness for active participation:

• Cooperation, decision-making, responsibility;
• Development of civil society

Promotion of loyalty.
Promotion of the tolerance necessary in an open, globalised society.

AE social aspect
Supporting social interconnectedness:

• Equal learning possibilities:
• Social and cultural identity.

AE economic aspect
Forming readiness for the sustainable consumption.
Supporting small enterprises.
Supporting economic success.
Sustainable lifestyle.

AE cultural aspect
Preservation and development of national
cultural and educational traditions.
Promotes social norms and values.
Helps promote creative people with their
own cultural identity.

The Expectations of Society

Education has:

• To help to foster change and at the same time to stabilise and uphold law and order;
• To preserve cultural connections, stabilise and prevent harmful cultural values, norms, myths and taboos;
• To develop free, self-confident and self-sufficient personalities who are ready to participate in decision-making and to be responsible for what is done and how;
• To help to promote readiness for change