Andragoško spopolnjevanje in strokovni razvoj izobraževalcev odraslih

The main issue and the focus of the article is how to support professional development of adult educators with provision of education and training. The task is not simple or easily solved. At the starting point we are faced with the question “who is an adult educator” and with the complexity involved in formation of “the professional identity of adult educators”. In the first part of the article I present my research results, which show that in adult education in Slovenia it is possible to speak about a profession. In the second part I present the premises and goals of the renewed concept of training of adult educators,, developed by the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education. The renewed concept is based on the competence approach and on the andragogical cycle; one of its important constitutive elements is introduction of the procedures for recognition of prior knowledge