Assist. Prof. Tadej Košmerl

International strategies in adult education

Master’s students, doctoral students and practitioners working on “International strategies in adult education and lifelong learning” in the first week of the Adult Education Academy will use a policy analysis perspective. This perspective will enhance their analytical skills by integrating and analysing different perspectives. The theoretical analysis perspective is accompanied by field visits to adult education providers in and around Würzburg. Presentations of international adult education organisations (EAEA, ICAE, DVV Internation-al) will complete the programme. These insights will be applied to the analytical models as case studies.

Košmerl, T. (2024). Liberalism all the way down? Multilevel discourse analysis of adult education for sustainable development policies. European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 15(3), 261–279. https://doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.5167

Košmerl, T., Gontarska, M., Kim, Y., & Guimarães, P. (2020). Helping to postpone the last whimper: Adult learning and education for sustainable development in the National Energy and Climate Plans of Poland, Portugal and Slovenia. Andragogical Studies, 1, 53–76. https://doi.org/10.5937/AndStud2001053K

Košmerl, T., & Mikulec, B. (2021). ‘You have to run it like a company’: The marketisation of adult learning and education in Germany and Slovenia. European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 12(1), 47–63. https://doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.ojs3466

Košmerl, T., & Mikulec, B. (2022). Adult education for sustainable development from the perspective of transformative learning theories. Journal of Contemporary Educational Studies, 73(2), 164–179.

Košmerl, T., Miroshnikov, M., Aderibigbe, A. S., & Guimarães, P. (2022). UNESCO’s global reports on adult learning and education: Conceptual elements and political priorities in Nigeria, Russia, and Slovenia. Sisyphus, 10(3), 186–205. https://doi.org/10.25749/sis.25583

Košmerl, T., Radovan, M., & Makovec Radovan, D. (2024). The funding puzzle in adult education for sustainable development: A case study of Slovenia. Sustainability, 16(18), 8239. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16188239

Rathmann, M., Guimarães, P., & Košmerl, T. (2023). Digital transformation and adult learning and education policies: The cases of Germany and Portugal. In L. Breitschwerdt, J. Schwarz, & S. Schmidt-Lauff (Eds.), Comparative Research in Adult Education: Global Perspectives on Participation, Sustainability and Digitalisation (pp. 109–124). wbv Publikation.

Singh, S., Ehlers, S., & Košmerl, T. (2023). Transitions in the policies for the education of adults: Comparing the funding regimes in Denmark and Slovenia. In L. Formenti, A. Galimberti, & G. Del Negro (Eds.), New Seeds for a World to Come: Policies, Practices and Lives in Adult Education and Learning: 10th ESREA Triennial Conference (pp. 265–270). Ledizioni. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8017866

• adult education policies
• adult education for sustainable development
• digital transformation in adult education
• transformative learning

Tadej Košmerl is an Assistant Professor of adult education at the Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. His research focuses on adult education policies, adult education for sustainable development, digital transformation in adult education, and transformative learning.