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Numeracy practices are always dependent on the social context in which they emerge. These contexts, however, are unstable because of a range of technological and socio-political changes. How does this instability affect people’s agency in the world? After reviewing key approaches to numeracy practices research, we distil key findings from recent numeracy studies. We introduce the concept of the numerate environment to examine the context in which opportunities, supports and demands present them…
Environmental education that fosters meaningful community participation and learning has been considered a requisite to sustaining our human and natural environments in many of the global conferences, agreements, declarations and charters since the 1972 UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm. Despite this growing consensus there is a small amount of published research in Australia in this field of practice we have decided to call popular and informal environmental education – education t…
Consultancy in transition Interfaces of school and study as well as of study and job Setting out from the point of a teaching insight, which understands study as a job biographical phase, study entrance as well as study withdrawal as central interfaces of this phase achieve increasing significance. At the universities increasingly practical initiatives at these interfaces can be observed; certainly hardly any empirical studies exist that take a closer look at the need of the students at thi…
Der Aufschwung des Themas „Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung“ hält ungebrochen an. So gibt es zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen von Forschungsergebnissen aus dem Förderschwerpunkt „Forschung und Entwicklung zur Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung Erwachsener“ des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF). In diesem Förderschwerpunkt, der in diesem Jahr ausläuft (2007–2012), konnte intensive Grundlagenforschung geleistet werden, deren jüngste Ergebnisse in dieser Ausgabe des REPORT vorgestel…
Aktuelle Aspekte und Trends von Internationalisierung der Erwachsenenbildung werden in den Beiträgen und im DIE-Gespräch zum Heftthema beleuchtet: Agnieszka Bron beschreibt Internationale Erwachsenenbildung als Wissenschaftsdisiplin, Peter Jarvis skizziert Vor- und Nachteile des internationalen Lern- und Wissensmarktes im Zeichen neuer Technologien ein, Sergio Haddad schildert Themen, Schwerpunkte und die Auswirkungen von Globalisierung auf die Erwachsenenbildung in Lateinamerika, Carolyn Meder…
