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A special ceremony for the European
Class of 2006 was held Sept. 27 in the
historic hall at the University of Bamberg,
Germany. Educational scholars and
practitioners whose contributions provide
the foundation for continuing education
and adult learning in Europe were chosen
for entry. The induction ceremony was held in
conjunction with two international
conferences on adult education: the 4th
International Society for Comparative
Adult Education and the 11th 
Standing
Conference on the History of Adult
Education.
The induction ceremony was staged to a full house and hosted by James P. Pappas, Ph.D., vice president of University of Oklahoma Outreach and dean of the College of Liberal Studies, and Jost Reischmann, professor of andragogy, University of Bamberg, Germany, and John Henschke, professor, University of Missouri, St. Louis. Pappas presented the introductory address and Rita Suessmuth, a German politician and president of the OTA Hochschule, a private university in Berlin, presented the closing comments for the event.
Class of 2006
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John R. Gantz, Ph.D., is a distinguished adult educator in the Department of Defense’s Voluntary Education Program. As an innovative practitioner and educational leader, he has been a strong advocate for extending a wide range of educational opportunities to servicemembers in the United States Armed Forces located throughout the world. >>> |
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Daniel D. Godfrey began his distinguished career in adult and continuing higher education as an assistant county agricultural agent with North Carolina State University. He earned a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina A&T State University, a master’s degree in adult education and rural sociology from North Carolina State University and >>> |
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Knud Illeris is a professor of lifelong learning at the Danish University of Education in Copenhagen. He exemplifies the true spirit of adult education, as he left a promising career as a travel agent at age 27 to begin his higher education. He divides his educational career into two distinct timeframes. >>> |
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Carroll A. Londoner, Ph.D., has made significant contributions to the field of adult education through his leadership in the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE), formerly Adult Education, USA, and in many national board and >>> |
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Victoria J. Marsick is a professor of Adult and Organizational Learning in the Department of Organization & Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University, where she has made significant contributions to the field of adult learning in the theory and practice of human resource and organizational development. >>> |
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Larraine R. Matusak, with a Ph.D. in higher education administration from the Fielding Institute, became an innovative scholar and practitioner of leadership who has held many leadership roles in the field of continuing education during her 35 years of work. >>> |
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Gary N. McLean, Ed.D., coordinated the University of Minnesota Human Resource Development program for 25 years beginning in 1980, a program consistently ranked in the top human resource development graduate programs in the United States. He is a tireless and exemplary teacher, scholar and contributor to the human resource development profession. >>> |
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Mazanah Muhamad is one of Malaysia’s most distinguished scholars, researchers and practitioners in adult and continuing education. She is highly recognized not only in Malaysia but throughout Asia, Southeast Asia in particular, the United States and Europe for her work in developing, adapting and revalidating adult learning theory and >>> |
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Allen Tough, Ph.D., has been globally recognized for forty years as a pioneering scholar in adult learning and self-directed learning. His early seminal contributions to the field date back to 1965 and his research has illuminated adults’ successful efforts to learn and change. More than 90 studies in 11 countries have been based on Tough’s work. >>> |
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Dr. Mary L. Walshok has implemented a new model of lifelong learning in the United States by integrating the fields of education, civic and cultural enrichment, and economic development. As Dean of University Extension and Associate Vice Chancellor of Public Programs at UC San Diego, Walshok has extended the riches of the university >>> |
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Paul Belanger, Ph.D., celebrates more than three decades of leadership, service and participation in the field of adult and continuing education, most notably as secretary-general of the 5th International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA V), held in Hamburg, Germany in 1997. The event >>> |
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Michael Eraut, Ph.D. has been a professor of education at the University of Sussex since 1986. He earned a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Cambridge then used a two-year period in the United States as a Fulbright Scholar to transfer into higher and adult education. >>> |
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Heribert Hinzen, director of the Institut für Internationale Zusammenarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes (IIZ/DVV – Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association) in Bonn, Germany, is an active leader in adult and continuing education both in Germany and internationally. >>> |
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The national and international significance of the contributions of Joachim H. Knoll, Ph.D., Ph.D.h.c., as an internationally respected scholar of adult education, pioneer, and founder of International and Comparative Adult Education in Germany, is documented in many ways – by his publication work, participation in UNESCO initiatives in the field of adult education, >>> |
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Roger Morris, Ph.D., has dedicated his career to adult and continuing education for more than 30 years, earning him recognition and respect as both scholar and activist. His leadership has been of crucial national significance to Australian adult education and has helped to put Australia on the international adult education map. >>> |
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Ekkehard Nuissl, Ph.D., is regarded as an outstanding contributor in adult education in both national and international fields. For 15 years he served as director of the central institute for adult education in Germany, Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE-Bonn), which he helped develop into a center of excellence >>> |
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Franz Pöggeler, Ph.D., has been a distinguished pioneer of adult and continuing education both in Germany and in Europe since after the Second World War. He is one of the founders of andragogy/adult education as a scholarly discipline in Europe, and he engaged in the study of adult education as early as 1945. >>> |
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Reginald (Reg) Revans, Ph.D., is regarded as the “father” of action learning for managers and as an early advocate of the learning organization and systems learning. A physicist by profession, his early work was in nuclear physics at the Cavendish Laboratories led by Ernest Rutherford. >>> |
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For nearly 50 years, Dusan Savicevic, Ph.D., has made major contributions to the field of adult and continuing education and is regarded as one of the leading experts in andragogy (adult education) in South-Eastern Europe. He has worked internationally, in institutions for the development of modern adult education, >>> |
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Peter W.J. Schramade is a distinguished practitioner, writer and editor in the field of adult and continuing education, human resource development (HRD), corporate training and development, and performance improvement in the Netherlands. Supported by his international orientation, >>> |
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Tom Schuller, Ph.D., is an international scholar, earning his master’s degree from Oxford University, a post-graduate certificate in education from the University of London, and his doctorate from Bremen University in Germany. >>> |
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Alfredo Soeiro, Ph.D., has contributed significantly to the field of adult and continuing education. Illustrative of his major contributions are the seminal roles he played in establishing professional associations of continuing education throughout the world. As one of the four founders of European Universities Continuing Education Network (EUCEN) >>> |
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Rita Suessmuth, Ph.D., is an active force in adult and continuing education in Germany, in neighboring countries and UNESCO. She is the president of the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin (OTA), and president of the Deutsche Volkshochschul-Verband (DVV – German Adult and Continuing Education Association), the largest adult education institution in Germany. >>> |
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Janos Toth, Ph.D., is the founder and managing president of the Hungarian Folk High School Society which has grown to 126 member organizations in Hungary. He transformed Hungarian Adult Education to democracy, pluralism and international interaction. As the first president >>> |
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Alan Tuckett, Ph.D., celebrates 37 years of leadership and involvement in the adult and continuing education field as a conference keynote speaker, mentor, administrator, researcher, author, publisher, innovative professional practitioner, and successful negotiator with governmental bodies nationally, in the United Kingdom, and internationally in more than 50 countries around the world. >>> |
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