ISCAE - International Society for Comparative Adult Education

International Society for Comparative Adult Education This page is operated by Prof. Jost Reischmann, Bamberg University, Germany.

Mission:

The general purpose of ISCAE is to increase the awareness and value of comparative adult education.
In particular the Society wants to encourage the growth of comparative adult education studies by:

promoting research in this area;

supplying a network of contacts to other comparatists;

documenting and sharing the developments and standards in publications;

facilitating the publication and distribution of comparative adult education studies;

organizing conferences and meetings for members and others interested in this area;

fostering thematic networks;

co-operating with other societies with similar aims.

ISCAE focusses its access to "international comparative comparison" to two specific types of comparison (more):
1. "A study in comparative international adult education ... must include one or more aspects of adult education in two or more countries or regions. Comparative study is not the mere placing side by side of data ... such juxtaposition is only the prerequisite for comparison. At the next stage one attempts to identify the similarities and differences between the aspects under study ... The real value of comparative study emerges only from ... the attempt to understand why the differences and similarities occur and what their significance is for adult education in the countries under examination ..." (Charters/Hilton 1989, p. 3).
2. In addition field- and method-reflections are seen as part of international comparative adult education: reflections about the methods, strategies, and concepts of international comparison, and summarizing reports about developments in the international comparative field on a material or meta level.

More information:

ISCAE's mission, history,
and understanding of
"comparative adult education"

Publications

Membership
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ISCAE-Board

If you are not a member of ISCAE and are interested in comparative adult education:
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A board meeting took place in Paris, France, May 9, 2009:
ISCAE is working on its future!
New officers, an enlarged board, statutes, plans
for a next conference ...

Looking back to ISCAE-activities:
ISCAE-conference 2006 in Bamberg, Germany.

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Working (or planning to work) on any "international" topic in adult/continung education/learning?
Then ISCAE's volume published as outcome of this conference can be of great
help by quoting renown experts and their discussions about
aims, contents, methods, obstacles, and prospects of international comparison!
(for a .pdf of our first book "Comparative Adult Education 1998" click publications)

Table of Contents: Ordering the book:

Especially we want to suggest to buy this book for many libraries: In our experience once in a while an international topic comes up to new and old researchers, and then it is vital that the work does not start from zero, but one can refer to basic literature and research. So please consider to order a copy not only for you, but for your institutions library - you will help coming researchers to built on experiences we collected through ISCAE.

Adult and Continuing Education has become a field of action, reflection, and research all over the world. To learn from successful models developed worldwide, this book documents and discusses the progress of comparative adult education – aims, contents, methods, obstacles, and prospects.
Part A examines basic questions of comparative adult education. The contributions offer a deeper understanding and include warnings of obstacles and pitfalls. They help to design research by building up on the theoretical framework developed in prior research.
Part B presents experiences and “lessons learned”, suggesting advice and warnings for successful comparative work.
The studies in Part C illustrate research methods as well as topics important to researchers in various regions of the world.
Descriptions of international institutions in Part D may assist to use their assistance and services.

Former ISCAE-conferences ...

After Bamberg, Germany 1995 and Radovljica, Slovenia 1998 our third conference took place 2002 in St. Louis, Mo, USA.
Program and fotos:

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Networking, contacting, conferences ....?
Have a look to the pages of Andragogy.net. You may find there helpful links to many places, institutions, and programs dealing with adult education.

WCCES
World Council of Comparative Education Societies

Contacting ISCAE:

President: Michal Bron Jr, Ph.D., Södertörn University, Sweden MichalB (at) iscae.org

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