ABSTRACT
The following thoughts are a mixture of my long experience in the practical field of adult education and also my historical research about political party-schooling of the Left, particularly the Communist Party, in the Weimar Republic of Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. I try to enrich those with some theoretical assumptions we drew in working group of the RLS in Germany. I hope some suggestions and conclusions can be stimulating to carry the debate for a more meaningful ‘emancipative education’ forward. When it comes to ‘civic education’ on the one hand and ‘emancipation’ on the other, certainly the latter is more difficult to frame and define – so let’s start with the easy task first (very much what most educationist would do).
