Reforms & Policy: Adult Education Research in Nordic Countries

Introduction; Adult education trends & reforms; New directions of adult education policy in Finland; Interest & 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 & non-formal education; Management education & organisation development; Experiencing the changes brought by it & 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 & communality in self-directed open learning; Grundtvig's educational ideas.