Almeida, António Fragoso deKurantowicz, Ewa2017-04-072017-04-072016-042000-7426AUT: AAL01137;http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/9516Is 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.)engjournal article10.3384/rela.2000-7426.relae11