Teachers and Trainers in Adult and Lifelong Learning : Asian and European Perspectives

What competences are needed in future by people working within adult and lifelong learning? What pathways of professionalisation are available to them in Europe and Asia? What are the actual effects of teacher training? What are the specific responsibilities of adult and continuing education teachers and trainers? The book focuses on teachers and trainers in lifelong learning and their professional development. Therefore it gives an insight into the state of the art of professional development in Southeast Asia, Europe, China and India. Furthermore, professionalisation in adult and lifelong learning is explored under the headings of the effects of teacher training, role-professionals, competences profiles and the question of responsibility. It also gives an insight into initiatives to professionalise the people working in adult and lifelong learning. Table of Content Ekkehard Nuissl, Regina Egetenmeyer - Teachers and trainers in adult and lifelong learning: a preface 9 Professionalisation in Adult and Lifelong Learning: Perspectives from Southeast Asia, Europe, China and India 19 Atanacio Panahon II - Adult education in lifelong learning and the need to professionalise the ranks of stakeholders: the Asian perspective 21 Regina Egetenmeyer - Professionalisation in adult education: a European perspective 31 Shanan Zhu, Huaixin Zhu, Pingzhou Hu - The professionalisation of personnel working in adult education in China 45 S.Y. Shah - Mapping the field of training in adult and lifelong learning in India 55 Exploring Professionalisation in Adult and Lifelong Learning 77 Lea Lund Larsen, Bjarne Wahlgren - Effects of teacher training 79 Marcella Milana, Oleksandra Skrypnyk- Professionals vs. role-professionals: conceptualising professionalism among teachers of adults 85 Susanne Lattke, Huaixin Zhu - Competencies of teachers and trainers in adult education – Europe and China 95 Yang Ling - Inquiry into the prospective competence of lifelong learning professionals in Macau SAR, China 105 Dirk Koob - Professional ethics in adult education and the special issue of responsibility 125 Henning Pätzold - Responsibility and accountability in adult education – the unequal siblings 135 Professionalising Teaching and Training in Adult and Lifelong Learning 145 P. Adinarayana Reddy, Uma Devi - Professionalisation of Lifelong Learning in Indian universities 147 Ingeborg Schüßler, Stephan Wagenhals - Professionalisation of adult educators in German universities – selected findings 155 Raluca Lupou - Validation of adult educators’ competences: European need, solution and transfer of innovation to new contexts 167 Raymond Setiawan - The effectiveness of teacher training in Indonesia: a practice by the Sampoerna Foundation Teacher Institute 177 Annika Goeze, Josef Schrader, Stefanie Hartz, Jan Zottmann, Frank Fischer - Case-based learning with digital videos: does it promote the professional development of teachers and trainers in adult education? 187 Svetlana Surikova, Sanita Baranova, Manuel Fernández, Irina Maslo, Günter Huber - The development of professors as teacher trainers and their future-oriented competences in Latvia 199 Professionalisation of Teachers and Trainers: A Comparative Perspective 209 Ekkehard Nuissl, Regina Egetenmeyer - Professionalisation of teachers and trainers: a comparative perspective 211 Authors 217