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Der REPORT vermittelt einen Überblick zur wissenschaftlichen Forschung und Theoriebildung in der Erwachsenenbildung. Jedes Heft behandelt ein Schwerpunktthema und enthält einen umfangreichen Rezensionsteil.
Neben bildungspolitischen Entwicklungen, die zur Aufwertung informellen Lernens in Deutschland geführt haben, und begrifflichen Abgrenzungen werden in dieser Kurzbeschreibung die Befunde der Machbarkeitsstudie „Weiterbildungspass mit Zertifizierung informellen Lernens“ in knapper Form zusammengefasst. Daran anknüpfend werden die Empfehlungen für eine praktische Erprobung und die Handlungsfelder der an die Machbarkeitsstudie anknüpfenden Erprobungsphase ausführlich dargestellt.
Das Gutachten dient dem im Jahr 2004 vom DIE ins Leben gerufenen „Expertenkreis Lehre in der Weiterbildung“ (http://www.die-bonn.de/projekte/laufend/projekte.asp?projekteid=93) als Arbeitsgrundlage. Es stellt die aktuellen Ansätze und Befunde im Bereich des Lehrens und Lernens mit Schwerpunkt auf der Erwachsenenbildung dar. Neuere Ansätze zum Lehren und Lernen aus der Empirischen Pädagogik und Pädagogischen Psychologie werden vorgestellt und auf spezifische Aspekte der Weiterbildung wie Communi…
Intergenerational learning can be considered as a chance for institutions of adult education. Besides explicitly planned courses for different generations, intergenerational learning opportunities also take place incidentally in the educational work in seminars and courses, when the participants belong to different age groups. In both cases, the question arises how to arrange those courses didactically in order to support intergenerational learning processes. Based on systematic considerations …
Recognition of informal professional competencies Learning in informal and non-formal contexts has not yet gained wide-spread political and social acceptance, documentation and certification. Due to its individual and contextual situation, informal learning can be recognized via learning results only. Professional competence, including both formal and informal learning strategies, will constitute the foundation for a comparative evaluation and certification of such competencies and abilities.
Serving oneself. The new voluntary work and the role of full-time educationalists People’s own learning and development motives play a more important role in the “new voluntary work” than before. This article relates subjective descriptions by volunteers of the learning motives underlying their commitments and adopts a profession-oriented theoretical perspective to relate these to a strategy of support for volunteers by full-time educationalists, referred to as learning and development supp…
Emotions in Adults’ Learning Neurophysiological research has shown the relevance of emotions in learning processes. Nevertheless, the exploration of learning processes and the development of competencies is rather characterised by a cognitive perspective. On the basis of systemic-constructivist concepts the authors show that sustainable learning only works when internal experiences are supplemented with external experiences. By that way the levels of emotional and cognitive learning can be c…
The aim of the paper is to give an overview of key issues involved in recognising non-formal and informal learning, ranging from the legitimacy of the learning activities in terms of the outcomes to be recognised, through the cost of the necessary assessment, and essential elements such as quality assurance, the standards used, the potential benefits and the real obstacles. The findings summarised here are based on a report that describes and analyses practices in the 22 countries that particip…
