Departing from the variety of understandings of “region” both in general and in Adult
Education, the author aims at a new definition of the term against the backdrop of
current discussions on space. Based on a geographic approach, the author analyzes
recent literature in the field of Adult Education. He identifies a shift in both politics
and research. He, suggests, with Schöning, to evaluate the concept from a variety of
perspectives – from the point of view of the subject, of the organization and of the state.