Changing Relationships between the State, Civil Society and the Citizen:

The Unit for Adult Education and the ESREA Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning Network invite researchers and adult education professionals to consider the following themes in terms of empirical evidence, theoretical analysis and educational practice:

• Theme 1 - tensions and shifts in the relationship between the State, civil society and the citizen, and the implications of these for adult education and adult learning;
• Theme 2 - the (re)invention and (re)creation of practices in new contexts of adult education and learning;
• Theme 3 - the emergence of civil society organizations (both NGOs and enterprises) as well as new State interventions in the field of adult education and adult learning;
• Theme 4 - changes in social movements (both 'old' and 'new' social movements) which affect adult education and adult learning.