Dr. Adama Ouane inducted into International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame

UIL’s Director Adama Ouane is among eleven exemplary educators to be honoured with one of the most coveted awards in the field of adult and continuing education: induction into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. The special induction ceremony was held on 4 December in the context of the European Regional Preparatory Conference for CONFINTEA VI in Budapest, Hungary.

The Hall of Fame recognises educational scholars and practitioners whose contributions provide the foundation for continuing education and adult learning.

The official home of the Hall of Fame is the University Outreach Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education (OCCE), Thurman J. White Forum Building, Norman, Oklahoma, USA. The late Thurman J. White, founder of OCCE, envisioned a hall of fame to honour and document contributions of the past
to better build the future. White worked with the University Continuing Education Association, American Society for Training and Development, American Association of Adult and Continuing Education, ECOP/National Association of State University and Land Grant Colleges, to establish the Hall of Fame in 1995. Since the first awards ceremony in 1996, more than 200 educators have been
inducted into the Hall of Fame. For more information and for a gallery of past inductees see www.halloffame.outreach.ou.edu.

Inductees for the 2008 European Induction Ceremony are:

• John Jacques William Aitchison, advocate, researcher and administrator for adult education in South Africa
• Gretchen T. Bersch, Ph.D., professor emeritus, University of Alaska-Anchorage
• M. Frances Kelly, Ph.D., first director of U.S. Navy Education Plans and Policy
• Maria Lourdes Almazan Khan, Secretary General of the Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education
• Dénes Koltai, Ph.D., dean of the Faculty of Adult Education and Human Resources Development, University of Pécs, Hungary
• Markku Markkula, director of the Lifelong Learning Institute of Dipoli, Helsinki University of Technology
• Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere, posthumous, independence leader and founding president of the United Republic of Tanzania
• Adama Ouane, Ph.D., director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, Hamburg, Germany
• Otto Peters, Ph.D., leader and scholar in the field of adult distance education
• Kim Shinil, Ph.D., advocate and architect of adult and lifelong education in Korea
• Laurentiu Soitu, Ph.D., pioneer in adult education at the University of Lasi, Romania