Welcome to Prof. Dr. Katarina Popović

Welcome to Prof. Dr. Katarina Popović!

Announcement Guest Professorship Prof. Dr. Katarina Popović during the summer term 2021

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Katarina Popović (Department of Andragogy, University of Belgrade, Serbia) will stay at the Professorship for Adult and Continuing Education at JMU during the summer term 2021.

Prof. Popović is internationally recognized as a colleague of the highest reputation and an expert in the fields of political and civil society engagement. Thanks to her being the Secretary General of The International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) and her strong engagement in international adult education policy, the students receive a unique insight into the supranational policy advice of international adult and continuing education.

Prof. Popović will offer three seminars and one public lecture. Thematically, the courses include an exploration of the role of civil society in adult learning and education in Europe and globally, its origin and development as well as the current challenges. The public lecture “The Challenge of Postmodernism for Adult Education” will be announced on the homepage of the Professorship for Adult and Continuing Education (https://www.paedagogik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/erwachsenenbildung/professorship-of-adult-and-continuing-education/).

Additionally, she will organise a workshop together with international adult education experts on the topic of “Civil society and adult education” which will also be announced separately via the homepage of the professorship and other channels. If you are interested in participating, please send an e-mail to lifelong.education@uni-wuerzburg.de. An overview is also available on our homepage: https://www.paedagogik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/erwachsenenbildung/forschung/conferences/.

Prof. Dr. Regina Egetenmeyer and her team are glad to be able to offer such an enriching program due to friendly support of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) with means of the BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research).