Adult Educator's Activity : Guidelines for Professionalization

Abstract

The paper is aimed at presenting theoretical and empirical data of the study that was aimed at identifying the pathways and methods of professionalization of an adult educator's activities. The spheres of the profession are identified. When analysing the sphere of professional competence, two opposite situations are distinguished. At a certain stage in life, every person has helped someone to learn something. In this paper focus is on professional adult educators, the domain, which integrates such spheres of competence as didactic, subject, and managerial spheres. The conclusions that the professionalisation of an adult educator is a complex process, as the profession of an adult educator is complex: an adult educator is expected to perform a number of roles, including those of a teacher, facilitator and manager, are provided