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Die Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft ist als gesellschaftliches Großereignis auch ein kollektiver Lernanlass – Grund genug für eine Weiterbildungszeitschrift, dem Thema ein Heft zu widmen. Jochen Kade deutet das Ereignis als „Lernzumutung” und meint damit nicht nur die „Erziehungs-Beziehung” zwischen dem DFB und dem deutschen Trainergespann um Jürgen Klinsmann. Dass der Identitätsbildung durch Fußball durchaus Grenzen gesetzt sind, erklärt Daniel Cohn-Bendit in einer europäischen Perspektive. Ein biss…
Hattie‘s study »Visible Learning« is no reason to call for didactic changes in adult education - this is this article’s conclusion of the New Zealander’s meta-study from a continuing educational perspective. Nontheless, Hattie provides significant suggestions for the didactic debate. These suggestions include guidelines for suitable teaching activities as well as his rather provocative findings on the positive effects of actively guided lessons, which do not contradict adult educational conside…
Development of personality competence and central further education barriers in social milieus Presented are partial results of a current Germany-wide empirical qualitative analysis in which the social and regional differentiation of adult education interests and adult education behaviour in the tradition of milieu research are ascertains and interpreted. On the basis of three social ambiences the development of personality competence and typical further education barriers are introduced.
Die Zukunftsfähigkeit von Bildungssystemen hängt davon ab, wie gut die Übergänge zwischen Sektoren bewältigt werden können. Für die Weiterbildung stellen sich an Übergängen vielfältige Herausforderungen. Sie kann durch Überbrückungsangebote den Transfer für Benachteiligte erleichtern, an Übergängen beratend tätig werden oder Fortbildungen für Professionelle an Übergängen konzipieren. Das Heft will klären, wie sehr das Konzept des „lebenslangen Lernens“ Durchlässigkeit hierzulande befördert und …
The "learning time account" links the politics of working hours with professional adult education. As a derivative from the "working hours account" it represents an instrument with which the worked for time demands of the employee is changed into adult education instead of into money. Depending on whether the adult education serves work related or private matters, the resources are made available by the employer or by the employee (time and money). In the discussion of lifelong learning the ins…
Caught between Two Stools. Adult Education for People with Intellectual Disabilities The report analyses connecting factors for the manifestation of an inclusive approach in adult education for people with mental disabilities. It presents existing organisational forms and qualification paths. The core challenge is seen in the development of an inclusive professionalism which combines the expertise and competences existing in both general adult education and help for the disabled. The develop…
Biographical Orientations for Older People in Adult Education In times of demographic changes and an increasing flexibility of biographies, adult education is in need of adjusting its repertoire. General and highly standardized programmes alone do no longer fit the heterogeneity of its target groups. The article is based on two empirical studies – one focuses on individual management of work path, the other shows the importance of structuring time and activities to elder people. With these, …
Natural Sciences as a Constitutive Element of Modern Adult Education Imparting natural scientific knowledge to a socially broad audience was already quite common in manifold forms before adult education as such was really constituted in the last third of the 19th century. Some of the questions raised when natural science spread in the 18th and 19th centuries are still or again relevant in the 21st century. This paper tries to demonstrate that notion in a summarized form on the basis of an ex…
Der REPORT vermittelt einen Überblick zur wissenschaftlichen Forschung und Theoriebildung in der Erwachsenenbildung. Jedes Heft behandelt ein Schwerpunktthema und enthält einen umfangreichen Rezensionsteil.
How can virtual spaces, digital media and its potential be utilised for cultural education programmes? The authors analyse the issue by looking at three good practice examples from adult education centres and point out the contributive effect of a reasonable and elaborate use of digital tools in cultural education for the participants’ digital education.
