Reforms and Policy

Contents: Introduction; Adult education trends and reforms; New directions of adult education policy in Finland; Interest and motivation to participate in adult education; Factors behind the Finnish higher education reform; Reform 94; Distance education at the turn of the century; Working life and non-formal education; Management education and organisation development; Experiencing the changes brought by it and their consequences in SMES; The life-story in adult education; Identities in transition: Key interviews as a way to analyse the transformation of the public sector; Autonomy and communality in self-directed open learning; Grundtvig's educational ideas.