The leisure adult education belongs among the ideally most original parts of the adult education. Moreover in our countries it has prolific tradition that starts in the period of the National Revival.
In the past two decades it has gone through many changes ¬ under the influence of different political, economical and social factors¬ that we cannot always evaluate possitively. Therefore the article deals with theanalysis of these changes and outlines the prognosis of the potential evolution.