Education of the adult educators – Basic aim of the modern education politics in planning lifelong learning

Abstract

The problem of train the trainers become the important subject of broader debates in the field of education – not only of those of formal youth education, but also of those educators who work in non-formal education and adult education. The last is discussed in the article. We derive from the position of adult educators in Slovenia and reflect upon through of the latest results of European and Slovenian studies at the field. The emphases are positions and types of adult learning staff, the roles and the tasks, competences and learning needs.