The Policy and Strategy of Adult Education

Pre-requisites: General Adult Education

Course objectives: Understanding the factors which shape the global, national and regional adult education policy and training for participation in educational policy creation on a national and local level.

Course description: Theoretical course: Lifelong education – conceptual frame for development and promotion of adult education; State and adult education; Legislation in adult education – European and national frame; Social partnership in adult education; Institutionalization of social partnership; Reforms of adult education – strategies, mechanisms and instruments. Quality and standardization in adult education. Practical course: Adult education financing; Adult education as a commercial phenomenon; Privatization in adult education; Decentralization in adult education, Strategic planning in adult education; Target groups in adult education.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course student: - understands the phenomenon of social partnership in educational policy of adults; - understands the function of the state and labour market in developing and management of adult education; - knows the methods and models of strategic planning in education.

Literature/Reading:

• Belanger, P. and Federighi, P. A (2000) Transnational Study of Adult Learning Policies, UIE.
• Belanger, P., Bochynek, B, with Farr, K.O., The Financing of Adult Learning in Civil Society: MA European Exploratory Study, UIE, 2000
• Federigi, P., Učenje i transfer politike u regionalnoj politici doživotnog učenja, Andragoške studije, br.1, 2007.
• Pastuović, N., (1999) Edukologija, Znamen, Zagreb.
• Savićević, D., (2000) Ka društvu učenja, DP Đuro Salaj, Beograd.
• Karavidić, S., (2007) Decentralizacija i menadžment u funkciji razvoja obrazovanja, Institut za ekonomiku i finansije, Beograd.