Ellen Boeren
3. June 2024At the end of May, TBU hosted a visit by one of the most prominent scholars in the field of adult education and learning, Professor Ellen Boeren from the University of Glasgow.
The former winner of the Houle Prize for the best publication of the American Association for Adult Education prepared two workshops for the academic community of the Faculty of Humanities: The first, focusing on the current challenges of lifelong learning in Europe, which she presented a few weeks earlier in Brussels to members of the European Commission responsible for setting Europe-wide policy in this area.
The second workshop focused on sharing good practice in writing for top Anglo-American social science journals. In addition, further deepening research cooperation with the Research Centre of the Faculty of Humanities, with which Professor Boeren has been working closely in recent years, was discussed. In particular, planning for joint analyses aimed at comparing international patterns of participation and non-participation of adults in lifelong learning through the latest data from the Adult Education Survey 2022 and the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies 2022 was discussed.