Kraus, Katrin: Vom Beruf zur Empoyability? 2006

Voesgen, Hermann (Hrsg.): Brückenschläge. 2006

Demographischer Wandel als Herausforderung für kommunale Bildungseinrichtungen

The demographic development in Germany will lead to the society servicing more older people than younger people. Against this background the contribution shows in which way institutions of communal adult education are called upon for developing specific offers that consider the different educational requirements and educational necessities of a very heterogeneous age group. By means of examples from the work at adult evening classes (Volkshochschulen) the author clarifies how contents, teaching…

Zukunftsperspektiven der Hochschulen in der Gesellschaft des langen Lebens

The German Society for Promotion of Research at Old Age (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Forschung im Alter – DGFFA) wants to give an impulse for the intensification of the discussion on those aspects of the demographic change, to which the universities/colleges would need to devote themselves to in due time, if they strive to consolidate their future viability in a society of lifelong learning. The presented suggestions in this contribution are components of a position paper that a wor…

Bürgerschaftliches Engagement und Weiterbildung

Citizens’ involvement increasingly gains appreciation in the public perception. Also in the adult pedagogical discourse the attention is raised in the context of lifelong learning. In this contribution the author discusses how learning processes in adult education, that take place in a societal action context, can be supported, guided or even initiated. On the basis of own empirical inquiries the author examines citizens’ involvement as an action- and learning field and asks for learning experi…

Arens, Tobias/Quinke, Hermann: Bildungsbedingte öffentliche Transfers und Investitionspotentiale privater Haushalte in Deutschland. 2003

Busse, Julia u.a.: Bildungsträger werden Bildungsdienstleister. Konzepte, Erfahrungen, Perspektiven. 2005

Artelt, Cordula; Moschner, Barbara (Hrsg.): Lernstrategien und Metakognition. 2005

[Schiersmann, Christiane: Profile lebenslangen Lernens. 2006]

Abschiedliche Bildung

Adult education is also stamped by linear legends, including its implicit models of biography. These are, as shall be shown in the first section of this consideration, concepts of a setting-out-biography. They oversee the aspect of life coming to an end. For that reason adult education often just shows half of the picture of an adult. The adult appears as a timeless entity, being in principle open for development. His “Unteachableness” is not really seen as a result of the structural rigidity o…