Adult Education Research from Rhizome to Field? A Bibliometrical Analysis of Conference Programs of ESREA from 1994 to 2016

Abstract

Adult education research is frequently an own subject of research. Such research is often focused on the analysis of journals. This paper will present a partly updated analysis of triennial research conferences of the European Society for the Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) between 1994 and 2016. A bibliometrical program analysis of conference papers will be done. Results support previous findings in the analysis of adult education research, but a number of differences or blind spots of ESREA and adult education research in general will become visible as well.