Improving Adult Learning

Abstract

Three institutions for adult teaching, Kaunas Region Educational Centre, Lithuania, EURO Training, vocational Center, Greece, and Nesna University College, Norway have since 2002 been working together on the project “The Modules for Improving Professional and Social Competence for Adults” - IMPROCOMAS for short. Socrates, Grundvig, has founded the project. The aims of the project have been the preparation of two modules: 1. Guides in the professional career of adults; 2. The methods and methodology in adult education. The target groups for the modules are teachers of adults, educational staff, and professionals responsible for in-service teacher training. There is a special emphasis on the educators of adult learners in suburban and periphery areas. This publication is the result of the work on Module 2, and the content of this anthology is “methods and methodology in adult education”. The aims are to introduce teachers to the specifics of adult education, and to present the main teaching and studying methods and their applications, and to be able to help adult educators to prepare themselves in theory and practice to apply the modules in adult education.