Abstract
This chapter outlines adult education legislation in Western Europe. This review of adult education legislation in Western Europe uses a certain definition of legislation and presents, against a brief historical background, an analysis and comparison of some key features of that legislation, based on its treatments of basic rights to education, aims and objectives, organization and structure, finance, staffing, staff training, and educational leave. In an attempt to further the development of supportive legislation in all Western European countries, the European Association for Catholic Adult Education produced and published in 1976 a “model” draft adult education act (FEECA 1977), based on international consultation and analysis. The European Bureau of Adult Education in its study conference held in Norway in December 1972 (EBAE 1974) identified a fourth sector of objectives to which adult education legislation should address itself, namely ‘priority areas of provision.” A very large part of all the extant legislation relates to the responsibilities to be exercised at the various levels of governmental and educational organization, that is, national or state, regional or local.
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