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<bold>Introduction:</bold> The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the international history of community culture and culture-based adult learning through showing the initiatives of a Post-Socialist country through introducing some initiatives from 1950, without claim for completeness. Additions to the History of Community Culture and Culture-based Adult Education and Learning in Hungary.
<bold>Purpose:</bold> Our questions include how the political and legal environment, and the spread of the mass media influenced the cultural activities and the community culture, and what culture-based adult learning initiatives and activities can be identified in the area of culture.
<bold>Methods:</bold> To its realization we chose horizontal and vertical analysing viewpoints. The horizontal viewpoint of our investigation is the linearity of timeline, while the vertical analysing viewpoint is the characteristics of political and legal environment having influence on culture-based adult education (cf. non-formal and informal cultural learning) and showing the work of some significant personalities, through synthetizing archive sources and literature background.
<bold>Conclusions:</bold> The changing of the regime brought reform on this area, too, it basically changed the profession and the training as well: the community culture builds on local initiatives and active participation, includes the training, creating artistic, informational activity of the citizens, based on their self-activities.
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Introduction: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the international history of community culture and culture-based adult learning through showing the initiatives of a Post-Socialist country through introducing some initiatives from 1950, without claim for completeness. Additions to the History of Community Culture and Culture-based Adult Education and Learning in Hungary.
Purpose: Our questions include how the political and legal environment, and the spread of the mass media influenced the cultural activities and the community culture, and what culture-based adult learning initiatives and activities can be identified in the area of culture.
Methods: To its realization we chose horizontal and vertical analysing viewpoints. The horizontal viewpoint of our investigation is the linearity of timeline, while the vertical analysing viewpoint is the characteristics of political and legal environment having influence on culture-based adult education (cf. non-formal and informal cultural learning) and showing the work of some significant personalities, through synthetizing archive sources and literature background.
Conclusions: The changing of the regime brought reform on this area, too, it basically changed the profession and the training as well: the community culture builds on local initiatives and active participation, includes the training, creating artistic, informational activity of the citizens, based on their self-activities.

Non-Formal Learning Activities – Adult Learning Initiatives

Department of Andragogy and Community Culture

Acta Educationis Generalis

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Introduction: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the international history of community culture and culture-based adult learning through showing the...

Non-Formal Learning Activities – Adult Learning Initiatives

Published Online: Feb 15, 2023

Page range: 96 - 106

Received: Sep 30, 2022

Accepted: Oct 14, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/atd-2023-0005

Keywords
adult learning, community culture, initiatives, non-formal learning

© 2023 Szilvia Simándi, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Non-Formal Learning Activities – Adult Learning Initiatives

Published Online: Feb 15, 2023

Page range: 96 - 106

Received: Sep 30, 2022

Accepted: Oct 14, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/atd-2023-0005

Keywordsadult learning, community culture, initiatives, non-formal learning

© 2023 Szilvia Simándi, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
adult learning, community culture, initiatives, non-formal learning