What competences are needed in future by people working within adult and lifelong learning? What pathways of professionalisation are available to them in Europe and Asia? What are the actual effects of teacher training? What are the specific responsibilities of adult and continuing education teachers and trainers? The book focuses on teachers and trainers in lifelong learning and their professional development. Therefore it gives an insight into the state of the art of professional development in Southeast Asia, Europe, China and India. Furthermore, professionalisation in adult and lifelong learning is explored under the headings of the effects of teacher training, role-professionals, competences profiles and the question of responsibility. It also gives an insight into initiatives to professionalise the people working in adult and lifelong learning.

Regina Egetenmeyer is Professor for Lifelong Learning at the University of Mainz (Juniorprofessor). Her emphases of research are international and comparative adult educational research, informal learning in the workplace, and academic professionalisation in adult and lifelong learning.
Ekkehard Nuissl is Scientific Director of the German Institute for Adult Education ¿ Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE) and University Professor for adult education at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His emphases of research are teaching and learning, international educational policy, evaluation research and institutional research.

Contents: Ekkehard Nuissl/Regina Egetenmeyer: Teachers and trainers in adult and lifelong learning: a preface ¿ Atanacio Panahon II: Adult education in lifelong learning and the need to professionalise the ranks of stakeholders: the Asian perspective ¿ Regina Egetenmeyer: Professionalisation in adult education: a European perspective ¿ Shanan Zhu/Huaixin Zhu/Pingzhou Hu: The professionalisation of personnel working in adult education in China ¿ S.Y. Shah: Mapping the field of training in adult and lifelong learning in India ¿ Lea Lund Larsen/Bjarne Wahlgren: Effects of teacher training ¿ Marcella Milana/Oleksandra Skrypnyk: Professionals vs. role-professionals: conceptualising professionalism among teachers of adults ¿ Susanne Lattke/Huaixin Zhu: Competencies of teachers and trainers in adult education - Europe and China ¿ Yang Ling: Inquiry into the prospective competence of lifelong learning professionals in Macau SAR, China ¿ Dirk Koob: Professional ethics in adult education and the special issue of responsibility ¿ Henning Pätzold: Responsibility and accountability in adult education - the unequal siblings ¿ P. Adinarayana Reddy/Uma Devi: Professionalisation of Lifelong Learning in Indian universities ¿ Ingeborg Schüßler/Stephan Wagenhals: Professionalisation of adult educators in German universities - selected findings ¿ Raluca Lupou: Validation of adult educators¿ competences: European need, solution and transfer of innovation to new contexts ¿ Raymond Setiawan: The effectiveness of teacher training in Indonesia: a practice by the Sampoerna Foundation Teacher Institute ¿ Annika Goeze/Josef Schrader/Stefanie Hartz/Jan Zottmann/Frank Fischer: Case-based learning with digital videos: does it promote the professional development of teachers and trainers in adult education? ¿ Svetlana Surikova/Sanita Baranova/Manuel Fernández/Irina Maslo/Günter Huber: The development of professors as teacher trainers and their future-oriented competences in Latvia ¿ Ekkehard Nuissl/Regina Egetenmeyer: Professionalisation of teachers and trainers: a comparative perspective.