Session Information
23 SES 05 B, Initial Professional Qualifications of Adult Educators Within and Across Countries
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Time:
2009-09-29
08:30-10:00
Room:
HG, HS 7
Chair:
Marit Honerød Hoveid
Discussant:
Regina Egetenmeyer
Contribution
This paper discusses present Swedish path-ways for adult educators-to-be, and the state of policy with a proposal for new teacher education. Presently there is one teacher-education programme dedicated to adult education, for folk high school teachers (liberal adult education). For general/vocational adult education, there is no specific programme, but teachers in these sectors should teach pupils of all ages (including adults) on their respective level. E.g. a teacher in vocational education in upper secondary school is also expected to teach in vocational adult education on upper secondary level. Here it should be noted that for post-secondary ‘qualified vocational education’ there are neither any teacher education nor formal demands on teachers’ educational competence.An official report on new Swedish teacher education was presented in December 2008. The report proposes that even the folk high school teacher programme will be put down, and that teachers for liberal adult education will be educated together with ‘subject teachers’ for general adult education and upper secondary school. Thus the future role of adult education in Swedish teacher education is unclear, and the governmental bill concerning the new teacher education implemented in 2011 will be presented in the autumn 2009.
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