Editorial: Non-traditional participants in adult education and learning

Is it valid to assume that adult education with a focus on non-participants or non-traditional participants takes into account the improvement of participants’ lives, or the emancipation of groups? Or, is this today a false assumption? Is the (scientific) discipline of adult education focussed on change? Although it is of course impossible to answer all those questions in such a modest contribution - the present thematic issue - some researchers forwarded very interesting perspectives. (DIPF/Orig.