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In zehn Porträts ausgewählter EB-Pioniere von Weitling über Zetkin und Luxemburg bis Strzelewicz werden die Anfänge der Erwachsenenbildung in einem Zeitraum von mehr als 100 Jahren erzählt. Durch diese besondere Auswahl, die Quellentexte und die (teilweise erstveröffentlichten) Fotografien öffnet sich der Blick auf die Geschichte der Erwachsenenbildung und ermöglicht neue Interpretationen.
Dieses Buch führt in die Geschichte der Erwachsenenbildung ein, die jeweils historisch bis zur Gegenwart durchgespielt werden, und berücksichtigt neben den klassischen Dimensionen wie Institutionalisierung und Professionalisierung dabei auch Aspekte wie Verwissenschaftlichung und Internationalisierung der Erwachsenenbildung. Am Ende jedes der acht Kapitel steht ein Originaldokument.
The report outlines the 50-year history of the statistics on adult education centres published by the German Institute of Adult Education and its predecessors since 1962. The chronology of events is depicted in a chart, whereas the tool‘s various characteristics, which generated key problems since the beginning and still do until today, are discussed in the text. The author fathoms future chances and challenges of input-oriented institutional statistics in a time with a tendency towards output …
The author gives a summary of accesses of generation overlapping didactics. Thereby he clusters the offers depending on whether one learns from each other, with each other or about each other. Starting from the generation perception the suspicion is trailed that the learning of the generations should be affected in terms of contemporary history and individual biography. Concrete implementation perspectives for intergenerational learning are only then possible, when a pattern is developed for th…
This third edition of the DIE Portrait Continuing Education in Germany has been extensively revised to include up-to-date figures on such key areas of continuing education as numbers of courses offered, participants, institutions and staff employed. The volume also outlines the history of German adult education and provides information on its basis in law and funding matters. Educational researchers, planners, administrators and practitioners, will thus obtain a thorough insight into the conti…
The inheritance of Paul Röhrig as a subject for historical research in adult education The article presents the types of sources and texts found in the estate of Paul Röhrig (1922–2007) and after an introduction to his biography and work, outlines positions on topics of art historical research that can be elaborated on this basis. The approaches to a systematized history of the study of adult education in the West German post-war years which arise from this will be outlined in an account wit…
Competence profile of the “specialist in violence” The changing requirements and roles of soldiers 50 years after the first military draft, this article explores the requirements and roles of German Army soldiers over the period 1957 to 2007. The changing competencies and skills required of soldiers must be understood in connection with the profound changes which the German Army has undergone in its transformation from a defence-oriented force to an army actively involved in military missions…
Research on learning - a retrospective The history of empirical research on adults’ learning reaches back until the twenties of the last century. This contribution evokes some interpretative research on the pedagogy of learning and teaching for adults. It seems that the adult education sciences’ disciplinary memory is underdeveloped as many instructive older analysis seem to have fallen into oblivion. Recent studies mostly don’t pay attention to the linkages and continuity of the questions. …
Complaints about the governmental withdrawal from public responsibility for adult education are most common nowadays. The "retrospects" shows how the perception of public responsibility during the last three decades of the 20th century has changed in the mirror of different political guidelines and an altering public interest in adult education.
In dem Beitrag werden zwei mündlich erzählte Lebensgeschichten von Protagonisten der hessischen Erwachsenenbildung nach 1945 auf dem Hintergrund von zwei erkenntnisleitenden Fragestellungen vorgestellt: 1) wie aus der Sicht der qualitativen Bildungsforschung demokratisch-staatsbürgerliches Handeln von Erwachsenenpädagogen identifiziert werden kann, und 2) wie mit Hilfe biographischer Quellen die aktive Seite dieses Tuns besser in den Blick kommt. Zum Abschluss ¤werden die beiden Lebensgesc…
