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The following article focuses the neglected relation between identity and learning by reconstructing foreign language learning efforts by adults. In spite of educational policy’s proclamation of (continuous) lifelong learning, real learning processes are characterised by various discontinuities. Adults deal with these discontinuities by perceiving, describing and structuring them dependent on their self-images as learners. Interpretations of interviews with adult language learners supply eviden…
The study text points out relevant research criteria for an evaluation in the field of adult education. For that purpose, basic concepts and theories are discussed and objectives, tasks, and principles of evaluation are outlined. The author refers to classic targets of evaluation – teaching/learning processes, educational institutions, projects/programmes as well as the education system – to present the features of adult education evaluation. In this context, the issue of required object-relate…
During the last decade, the configuration of international-comparative research in adult and continuing education has been interwoven with influences of stakeholders of (inter-)national educational policies and their agendas. This paper works with a broad understanding of international-comparative research in adult and continuing education. This understanding includes the interpretation of similarities and differences as well as studies which focus on the cultural interrelationship networks of …
The book provides a guideline for a didactic planning and design of conferences, conventions and workshops. It serves to support the act of preparation, realization and evaluation of events in adult education and may be used in various contexts and on a variety of topics. The book addresses staff working in the management and leadership of institutions in adult education, in public relations and event management.
The article deals with a change in public, political, and scientific understanding of migration and integration issues, which has to be taken into account by organisations of adult and continuing education. Furthermore the present focus on migration and integration offers new challenges as well as opportunities to improve the role of organisations of adult and continuing education in shaping the German society as an immigration society.
The authors explain their model of transferring self-directed learning elements from the context of projects to their daily work as adult education teachers in the Volkshochschule des Landkreises Gießen (adult education school). They focus on usability and investigate the learners' view on self-directed learning. Their results: If resources are used wisely, the implementation of self-directed learning is possible and learners appreciate it.
Cognition, emotion and mental self-regulation: on the nascency and solution of inner conflicts The contribution provides a short overview of several results on nascency and solution of inner conflicts which in the frame of a research programme on mental self-regulation in learning processes of adults were gained. The author was head of the project and she draws practical conclusions for adult education.
Wie hat sich ein spezifischer Arbeitsmarkt für hauptberuflich pädagogische Mitarbeitende (HPM) und Leitungskräfte in der öffentlichen Erwachsenenbildung historisch konstituiert und welche Tendenzen lassen sich aktuell feststellen? Im Forschungsprojekt StellA untersuchen die Autor*innen die historische und gegenwärtige Entwicklung hauptberuflicher Stellenprofile im Volkshochschulkontext sowie die Faktoren und Akteure, die diesen spezifischen Arbeitsmarkt hervorgebracht haben und ihn heute präge…
Oscar Olsson war einer der treibenden Kräfte beim Aufbau von Study Circle in Schweden Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Diese richteten sich an die ärmere Landbevölkerung und Arbeiter. Historisch waren die Study Circle eng mit den Prinzipien der „Popular Education“ in sozialen Bewegungen, insbesondere der Arbeiterbewegung, verbunden.
The studie „Cultures of Teaching“ focusses on the question, to what extend teaching beliefs are anchored in the pedagigal practice of Adult Education. Particullary the relation between teaching beliefs and organizational contexts is analysed. These questions are answerd by the means of a qualitative research design in which nine organisations of adult education were integrated. Therefore, all members of each organisations (mananagment, pedagogical and administrative staff) took part at intervie…
