ABSTRACT
The science of adult education has barely discovered this problem area - and the first efforts were made from the perspective of diagnosis of deficits and target group orientation. This chapter looks at tasks and desirabilities in the area of multicultural adult education. The formal political and separationist controversies have been overcome, the Danish minority of Schleswig is represented in the parliament of Kiel whereas the German minority in Denmark is connected to the Danish ‘rigstag’ through a parliamentary institution. The German population has to be prepared for an acceptance of immigrants which is not arrived at through tolerance alone but through knowledge. In Schleswig, bilingualism is as self-evident among the Danish minority as is their cultural orientation towards neigbouring Denmark. Both the national and the provincial government reached binding agreements with the Danish government regarding the status of these minorities right after the Second World War.
