Freedom and Responsibility of Liberal Adult Education

Freedom and Responsibility of Liberal Adult Education (SVV) is a national research project on liberal adult education.

Central research questions are:

1. How is edification, freedom and responsibility expressed within the missions, methods and agency of liberal adult education?

2. How is quality, efficiency and competency expressed in the implementation? In solutions about municipality structures and financing, which are conditioning them?

3. How is quality, efficiency and competency expressed within the missions, methods, meanings and agency of liberal adult education?

The Finnish category "sivistys" is translated here as "edification", although idea-historically and practically it has strong relations to categories of "bildning" and "Bildung" in Swedish and German. This is because "sivistys" literally means making something smooth, neat, pretty, better.

4. How do interpretations of edification, freedom and responsibility relate to interpretations of quality, efficiency and competency in the missions, methods, meanings and agency of liberal adult education?

5. What consequences do the above-mentioned have for liberal adult education organizations and for adulthood in its personal, collective and meta-collective meanings?