The International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame honors outstanding leaders in the fields of adult learning and continuing education who are distinguished as a scholar, practitioner, or policy-maker.

The Hall serves as a record of inspiration for the next generation of adult and continuing education leaders.

To be eligible for induction into the Hall of Fame, a person must be eminently distinguished in the profession, shall have brought honor or distinction, and shall have contributed to the heritage of adult and continuing education.

Annually, around ten adult and continuing education leaders from around the world are selected for induction into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. These individuals reflect the great diversity of adult and continuing education practice and scholarship and the increasingly global leadership community that constitutes the IACE Hall of Fame.

On this page we supply additional information about and for members of the Hall of Fame specificly in the European region.

The 2024 International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
took place in Florence, Italy.

The new iductees

HoFE-members active at the Dénes Koltai Memorial Conference on Adult Learning and Education

(ltr:) Arne Carlsen, Heribert Hinzen, Éva Farkas, András Benedek, Balázs Németh

Members of the European Branch of the Internationational Hall of Fame of Adult and Continuing Education participated in the Dénes Koltai Memorial Conference on Adult Learning and Education on Friday, 11 October 20224 in Pécs, Hungary.
In their plenary speeches Éva Farkas focused on matters of how to improve ALE with specific tools, Heribert Hinzen was signalling the roles of professionalisation and institutionalisation on ALE, András Benedek provided a retrospective focus on the legacy of Dénes Koltai in promoting and developing ALE with academic focuses. András also recalled CONFINTEA V and VI how they influence some Hungarians having been involved in quality development and partnerships with bodies as EAEA, eucen and PASCAL Int. Observatory. Arne Carlsen made a reflective workshop presentation on 'From the right to education, to the right to lifelong learning', Balázs Németh was pointing out the 'Trends of Policy Research in ALE two Years after CONFINTEA VII'.
The five representatives of HOF Europe were strongly concerned of the importance of preparing for the UniFirenze Conference of International Adult and Continuing Education HOF.

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New publication by HoFE-members:
Nuissl, E., Sava, S., & Farkas, É. (2024). Adult education in the European Union since 1993. European Journal of Education, 00, e12719. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12719p

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Maria Slowey and Richard Taylor (ed) (2024). Academic Freedom in Higher Education: Core Value or Elite Privilege? For more information visit www.routledge.com/9781032425511

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Announcing the search for a new tenure-track assistant professor in ALE at UBC-Vancouver

More infomation:

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HOFE meeting: Sept 17, 2024: Preparing our Florence-conference!

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Sad news: Our members John Field (obituary by Alan Tuckett) and Joachim Knoll have passed away. More

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New book1:

Jost Reischmann (HoF 1999) published a new book "Andragogy: Contribution to an Emerging Discipline".
Chapters: Andragogy and Andragogues, Andragogical Concepts, Projects and Examples, International Comparative Adult Education.
Student-friendly price 12 Euro. More information (use a different browser than Firefox)

New book2:

Let me share with all in HOFE a new book on Lalage Bown (inducted in 2009 into the Hall of Fame) that was just published by Florence University Press: "Adult Education and Social Justice: International Perspectives". Edited by Maria Slowey, Heribert Hinzen, Michael Omolewa, Michael Osborne (all members of the Hall of Fame!) Download of the book Interesting and rarely: Focus on Africa!

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The Conference in Chisinau at the Moldova State University on 9-11 November 2023

The IACE Hall of Fame was a co-organiser of the Sixth International Conference on Adult Education held November 9-11, 2023 at Moldova State University. The topic of the conference was "Education for Peace and Sustainable Development". 240 researchers participated in person, of which nine HOF-Europe members, who also gave keynote presentations at the conference (András, Ekkehard, Simona, Heribert, Paolo, Vladimir Gutu, Lauren?iu Soitu, Romita Iucu). The International Conference in Adult Education has been running for 25 years, and out of 6 editions, every 4 years, 5 were organised in Iasi, and the last one in Chisinau, this year. 3 of the 6 editions were organised with the HOF partnership. The conference meant altogether more than 600 debates and lectures, 6 indexed volumes, about 1500 participants, and hundreds of published articles.

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New publication, including many HOFE-members:

Third International Handbook of Lifelong Learning
This handbook discusses the challenges associated with Climate Change, Rise of Populism, Precarious Work, Learning Cities and Rural Development

Karen Evans is main editor, will be inducted in HOF Firenze 2024. Wing On Lee, HOF 2022, is also one of the editors.

Chapter authors:
Maria Slowey, HOF 2015, Anke Grotlüschen, HOF 2023, Mike Osborne, HOF 2022,
Raul Valdes Cotera, HOF 2022, Séamus O´Tuama, HOF 2022.

 

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Congratulations!

At the induction ceremony in Lexington, Kentucky (Program) on October 3, 2023 two Europeans were inducted into the
International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame:

     
Uwe Gartenschläger and Prof. Dr. Anke Grotlüschen
laudator (to the left): Prof. Séamus Ó Tuama, Ireland    laudator (to the right): Prof. Amy Rose, USA    
Welcome to the Hall of Fame!

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