What competences are needed in future by people working within adult and lifelong learning? What pathways of professionalisation are available to them in Europe and Asia? What are the actual effects of teacher training? What are the specific responsibilities of adult and continuing education teachers and trainers? The book focuses on teachers and trainers in lifelong learning and their professional development. Therefore it gives an insight into the state of the art of professional development in Southeast Asia, Europe, China and India. Furthermore, professionalisation in adult and lifelong learning is explored under the headings of the effects of teacher training, role-professionals, competences profiles and the question of responsibility. It also gives an insight into initiatives to professionalise the people working in adult and lifelong learning.

Themen des Sammelbandes sind: Erwachsenenpadagogische Zugange zum Thema der lernenden Organisation; selbstgesteuertes Lernen in Weiterbildungseinrichtungen als Ausgangspunkt der lernenden Organisation; Qualitatsentwicklung als Anstoss zur Organisationsentwicklung von Weiterbildungseinrichtungen; Einsatz von vernetzten IuK-Technologien als Lernimpuls fur Weiterbildungseinrichtungen; Forschungs- und Entwicklungsbedarf zum organisationalen Lernen in und von Weiterbildungseinrichtungen."