Prospects of Folk High Schools in European Countries

Authors

  • Eero Pantzar University of Tampere, Finland

Abstract

Folk high schools in different countries are a type of residential college for adult education. Their impact in adult education is greatest in the Nordic countries where their strong position is based on the Danish origin of folk high schools. In recent years development in society also has forced folk high schools to face a situation where they have had to think of their future. The most important actual problems are: difficulties in recruiting adults to courses, the increasing competition in the "adult education market" and unsteadiness of financial resources. In the future the folk high schools will have to extend the co-operation and division of work between the institutions. They also will have to find new special target groups to look for alternative sources of finance and to support adequate quality of teaching. The more folk high schools are able to adapt to the developing society the more secure their position will be in the future.

Résumé

"Folk high school" (école supérieure populaire) est une sorte d'éducation des adultes en residence. C'est dans les pays nordiques qu'elle a le plus grand impact en éducation des adultes; sa solide position s'explique par l'origine danoise du système. Ces demières années le progrès de la société a obligé aussi les "folk high schools" à réfléchir et à analyser leur avenir. Les problèmes les plus importants à résoudre sont: le recrutement des étudiants, la concurrence toujours croissante sur "le marché de l'éducation des adultes" et les difficultés financières. Pour pouvoir résoudre ces problèmes, les établissements doivent entre eux, élargir à la fois la coopération et la division du travial entre eux. Ils doivent trouver de nouvelles clientèles cibles, chercher de nouvelles sources de financement et de plus, garantir un niveau de qualité de l'enseignement suffisamment élevé. En Europe, les "folk high schools" doivent également coopérer au plan international; toute l'éducation des adultes des divers pays s'appuie en fait, sur un fond fort semblable de progrès économique et culturel.

Downloads

Published

1988-11-01

How to Cite

Pantzar, E. (1988). Prospects of Folk High Schools in European Countries. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2(2), 43–52. Retrieved from https://cjsae.library.dal.ca/cjsae/article/view/2363

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (1988)

Section

Perspectives

License

Authors of manuscripts accepted for publication will be required to assign copyright to the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education/L’Association canadienne pour l’étude de l’éducation des adultes (CJSAE). CJSAE requests that, as the creator(s)/author(s) of the manuscript your are submitting assign certain rights to the manuscript to the CJSAE in exchange for undertaking to publish the article in print and electronic form and, in general, to pursue its dissemination throughout the world. The rights the CJSAE requests are:

  1. The right to publish the article in print and electronic form or in any other form it may choose that is in keeping with its role as a scholarly journal with the goal of disseminating the work as widely as possible;
  2. The right to be the sole publisher of the article for a period of 12 months;
  3. The right to make the article available to the public within a period of not more than 24 months, as determined by relevant journal staff of the CJSAE;
  4. The right to grant republication rights to itself or others in print, electronic, or any other form, with any revenues accrued to be shared equally between the author(s) and the journal;
  5. The right to administer permission to use portions of the article as requested by others, seeking recompense when the CJSAE sees it as warrented;
  6. The right to seek or take advantage of opportunities to have the article included in a database aimed at increasing awareness of it;
  7. As the author(s), the CJSAE wishes you to retain the right to republish the article, with acknowledgement of the CJSAE as the original publisher, in whole or in part, in any other pbulication of your own, including any anthology that you might edit with up to three others;
  8. As the author(s), the CJSAE withes you to retain the right to place the article on your personal Web page or that of your university or institution. The CJSAE askes that you include this notice: A fully edited, peer-reviewed version of this article was first published by the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, <Year>, <Volume>, <Issue>, <Page Numbers>.

BY AGREEING TO THE FOREGOING, YOU CONFIRM THAT THE MANUSCRIPT YOU ARE SUBMITTING HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE IN WHOLE OR IN PART, AND THAT NO AGREEMENT TO PUBLISH IS OUTSTANDING.

SHOULD THE ARTICLE CONTAIN MATERIAL WHICH REQUIRES WRITTEN PERMISSION FOR INCLUSION, YOU AGREE THAT IT IS YOUR OBLIGATION IN LAW TO IDENTIFY SUCH MATERIAL TO THE EDITOR OF THE CJSAE AND TO OBTAIN SUCH PERMISSION. THE CJSAE WILL NOT PAY ANY PERMISSION FEES. SHOULD THE CJSAE BE OF THE OPINION THAT SUCH PERMISSION IS NECESSARY, IT WILL REQUIRE YOU TO PURSUE SHUCH PERMISSSION PRIOR TO PUBLICATION.

AS AUTHOR(S), YOU WARRANT THAT THE ARTICLE BEING SUBMITTED IS ORIGINAL TO YOU.

Provided the foregoing terms are satisfactory, and that you are in agreement with them, please indicate your acceptance by checking the appropriate box and proceed with your submission.

This copyright agreement was extracted with permission from the "Best practices guide to scholarly journal publishing" (2007), produced by the Canadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ).