| Sunday, Sept. 24 to Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006
International Society for Comparative Adult Education
The aim of this conference is to collect, share, and discuss the actual knowledge about comparative research in adult education. Comparison means to explicitly identify and analyze similarities and differences in two or more countries and includes the attempt to understand why the differences and similarities occur and what they tell us about adult education in these countries.
We invite interested colleagues - no matter whether beeing in contact with ISCAE before or not - to participate with papers, which
- compare one or more topics of adult education/andragogy in two or more countries (= comparative study sui generis).
- deal with questions about the theory, principles, methods, and other topics related to comparison in the international context of adult education (= critical reflection of comparative methods/principles).
- reflect and share experiences gained in international research endeavours in which they faced problems, promises, challenges and pitfalls typical for comparative studies (= lessons learned).
- report developments, new publications, "state of the art" of comparative research in a given country or region or language (= reviewing).
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Wednesday, Sept. 27 to Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006
11th Standing International Conference on the
History of Adult Education
On Becoming an Adult Educator
- historical, contemporary, institutionalised, individual aspects.
This conference invites all colleagues, experts, researchers and practitioners to exchange their research and knowledge about "Becoming an Adult Educator". This conference-theme includes a wide range of different questions and descriptions:
- How did important (historic) personalities / individuals "became adult educators"?
- Volunteers, "Moonlighters", moral leaders, knowledge-experts, (semi-)professionals - historic examples and developments.
- In which different ways in different times/countries/cultures one became an "Adult Educator"?
- Are there / had there been different types / categories of adult educators?
- What are the knowledge / the competencies / the attitudes expected from adult educators in different historic and contemporary movements / institutions / traditions?
- What are individual growth- and learning processes adult educators go through?
- What training schemes are available?
- Certification of adult educators?
- Is an adult educator a teacher? - Professional roles of adult educators.
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 These conferences brought again bring together international researchers, scholars, and professionals and
- gave the chance to meet international collegues, perhaps old and certainly new friends,
- offered the exchange between experts, and
- let experience the 1000-year old Bamberg, UNESCOs world heritage, with its romantic streets, beer-gardens with the unique smoked beer, cathedral and the cityhall in the middle of the river.
Keynote-Speakers:
- Prof. Mark Bray, Hong Kong, President of World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), Director of UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), Paris.
- Prof. Dr. Paul Bélanger, Montreal, President International Council for Adult Education. Former Director UNESCO Institute for Education Hamburg.
- Prof. Dr. Alexander Charters, Syracuse University, New York, USA.
- Prof. Dr. Dusan Savicevic, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
- Prof. Alan Knox PhD, Madison WI, USA, Past President of American Association for Adult and Continuing Education AAACE
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