The proceedings from NAEL 2022 are now published.
From the abstract
The title of this anthology mirrors the theme from the 9th Nordic Conference on Adult Education and Learning (NAEL), arranged by the University of South-Eastern Norway in May 2022. The NAEL conferences constitute biannual meeting places where researchers, policy makers, organisational leaders and practitioners converge to discuss how adult education can address the dilemmas facing society, organisations and individuals. The caption New Challenges, New Learning, New Possibilities reflect the notion that adult education plays an integral part in our societies by advancing new learning that generates possibilities to address contemporary challenges. The 16 chapters included in the NAEL proceedings convey the wide variety of research connected to the field of adult education. The publication incorporates studies of market-oriented and citizenship-oriented learning, developed in formal and informal settings. Though stemming from disparate points of departure, the authors agree on the ideal of combining the development of work life competences with the promotion of democratic empowerment, as demonstrated in the tradition of Nordic adult education.
