Innovation in the Spanish Adult Education

Abstract

Lifelong learning is a priority for the government of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. The education department has set up different kinds of provision to encourage adults to continue to participate in learning, including outreach support for surrounding areas where distance learning is available to students who cannot attend class. The Provincial Office of Education in Toledo is an institution responsible for analysing reality, providing and managing all kinds of resources to meet every necessity identified in adult education. It emphasises a wide range of provision that meets in a flexible way both the needs of the individual learners and the changing needs of the economy and labour market. The aim of this paper is to show the adult education provision policies in Castilla-La Mancha, how adult education has focused on flexible learning in order to improve quantity and quality of programmes offered, future initiatives and teaching practice models implemented in adult education, participation of other public and private institutions in adult education, and participation of adult education centres in the lifelong learning programme.