Competency
Individuals who have completed Curriculum globALE know and understand the functions and particularities of the field of adult education and its importance in their own social context, also as compared to other possible contexts and in the light of a wider international framework. They are able to position their own professional role within this context.
Individuals who have completed the Curriculum globALE
• are aware that the practice of adult education is shaped by different views of humanity and different understandings of education, leading them to acquire a basic understanding of adult learning and its ethics;
• understand the diversity of the adult education fi eld and that it is situated in a culture; are familiar with the different forms of adult education in their country and know the meanings and connotations of key terms commonly used to refer to different forms of adult education;
• have a basic understanding of international developments which are relevant to their own context of adult education;
• are able to position their own adult education context within the existing diversity of adult education;
• are able to position their own role as an adult educator within this context;
• are familiar with the important provisions of the legal framework conditions that are relevant to adult education in their country, their region and at the international level;
• are able to distinguish between, categorise and explain the complex forms of funding in adult education;
• are familiar with the essential features of the current politics relevant to adult education;
• know about the most important actors that are relevant for adult education in their region, their country, and, if relevant, at the international level;
• are able to critically refl ect on the functions and interests of individual actors that are associated with adult education,as well as on existing power relations.
Module 1. Approach to Adult Education
