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Critical Reflection and Empowerment in adult Education Practice

An Attempt to Create an Understanding of Two Frequently Appearing “Guest Stars” in Adult Education Policy Documents

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Empowerment is a term frequently found in journal articles, book chapters, as well as in formal and informal policy documents relating to adult education. Empowerment appears in the aforementioned documents either as the general purpose of adult education or as the desired outcome of a learning process. However, it seems that empowerment as a learning outcome appears with a different meaning in documents relating to the implementation of programs aiming to the general intellectual development of adults, than in texts relating to programs that have as a main goal to serve the vocational dimension of human life or even the labor market.

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Koulaouzides, G.A. (2017). Critical Reflection and Empowerment in adult Education Practice. In: Koulaouzides, G.A., Popović, K. (eds) Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Southeastern Europe. International Issues In adult Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-173-5_2

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