Development Directions of Adult Educational System

Pre-requisites: There are no requirements.

Course objectives: Understanding the determinants and regularities of adult educational system development.

Course description: Theoretical and practical courses • Determinants and regularities of adult educational system development. – formal and non-formal • Diversity of approaches to studying adult educational system (historical, comparative, holistic, empiric, economic, systemic, management approach,...) • The mission of adult educational system in the conception of lifelong education and learning • Adult educational system – structural components and subsystems: normative regulating, organizing, managing and functioning • Systemic problems of adult education – the role and the contribution of educational policy in solving these problems • Managing the changes / reforms of adult educational system • Processes of standardization, accreditation and licensing as improvement factors in adult educational system.

Learning Outcomes: Student: - Understands the importance of environment for system development; - Researches adult educational system; - Defines the mission and the strategic goals of adult education; - Participates and creates system solutions to adult educational problems; - Improves the educational policy.

Literature/Reading:

• Alibabić, Š., (2002), Teorija organizacije obrazovanja odraslih, IPA filozofskog fakulteta, Beograd
• Bok, D., (2005), Univerzitet na tržištu, Clio, Beograd
• Pastuović, N., (1999), Edukologija, Zagreb
• Savićević, D., (2000), Put ka društvu učenja, Beograd
• Medel- Anonuevo, M.,(2003), Lifelong Learning Discourses in Europe, UIE, Hamburg
• Miller, A., (1998), Strategic Management, third edition, IRWIN/Mc Grow/Hill, Boston
• Reider, R.,(2000), Benchmarking Strategies, John Wiley and Sons, New York