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In a representative survey in 2012 the German edition of the Adult Education Survey (AES) collected data relating to the professional development behaviour and the structure of the professional development market in Germany. This final report analyses and comments on the collated data under the consideration of key questions: Who participates why, how often and how long in professional development and who does not? Which professional development provisions are popular? How is the target group o…
Bernhard Christian Faust und Johann August Unzer griffen auf, auf Unterhaltung ausgerichtete, literarische Gattungen zurück, um Wissen zu vermitteln. Die nachfolgenden Quellen zeigen Textauszüge aus ihren Arbeiten.
The aim of wider-benefits research is to record the complexity of benefits and other effects on both the personal and the societal levels deriving from the individual’s educational efforts. The central issue is: “What changes are affected by learning interventions?” Schuller/Desjardins 2010, p. 229). The exploration of the wider benefits of learning is still in its infancy. Pioneers in this field of research are, in particular, to be found in the UK – the Centre for Research on the Wider B…
Hannelore Jouly, Direktorin der Stadtbücherei Stuttgart, umreißt im DIE-Gespräch “Begegnung mit dem Unerwarteten” Dimensionen konzeptioneller und medialer Planung und Gestaltung von neuen Lernräumen und veränderten Lernarrangements in einem multimedialen Lernzentrum. Erhard Schlutz fragt im Beitrag “Vom Methodenklmepner zum Lernarchitekten?”, wie flexibel Lehren und Lernen gestaltet werden müssen, um lebenslange, selbstgesteuerte Lernprozesse an unterschiedlichen - auch virtuellen - Lernorten z…
The “European Master in Adult Education“. Transnational courses of study as the fruit of the Bologna process Proceeding from the documents of the Bologna process, the contribution directs its gaze at the European dimension in study programmes at European universities. In the area of adult education a joint study programme of eight universities and the German Institute for Adult Education has a pioneering role. The “European Master in Adult Education“ (EMAE), developed in the context of an Era…
