Guidance and Counseling in Adult Education as an Agent of Social Inclusion

Abstract

An overview of the counseling and guidance activities in adult education shows that this activity is predominantly oriented into informing and career guidance and that it functions hand in hand with the labour market. In most European countries career guidance is in the foreground (especially for the young); guidance and counseling to help adults in their education process is perceived as a ‘superstandard ' activity. We have ascertained that the possibilities offered for obtaining information or guidance do not ensure equal access to the various target groups. Even though counseling and guidance in adult education is relatively well developed in Slovenia, it still remains a marginalised area of (adult) education within the educational policy, for it remains systemically and financially unregulated. Numerous European countries (including Slovenia) have noticed a discrepancy between the political premises stated in various documents and the actual conditions.