Learning and Work in an Ageing Society in the UK

The ageing population presents a series of policy challenges, for which our current three phase model of the lifecourse is unhelpful, especially by overlooking the changing nature of the “third age”. Encouraging people to stay longer in paid work is a key priority for Government, and training is often advocated as a way of encouraging this. This paper summarises the demographic challenge and presents a proposal for rethinking the lifecourse. It then describes the findings of a project, which ex…

Förderung selbstbestimmter Lernprozesse durch forschendes Lernen

The study examines how research-based learning, based on grounded theory, might enhance students learning abilities. In the context of a qualitative experiment, two groups of students were introduced to research-based learning. The students involved were asked about their learning experiences afterwards. The results of the study implicate that research-based learning is a promising approach for the development of self-determined learning. Students were critical, however, regarding the incompati…

Social Capital in Japan's Aging Society

Japan’s population is aging and shrinking at unprecedented speed. One central issue that emerges in the ongoing discourse on how to meet the manifold demographic challenges Japan faces deals with the central role the nation’s senior citizens can take on when it comes to providing and fostering social capital. The concept of lifelong learning in this context has been established as a central means of being engaged in actively shaping the future of Japan.

Erwachsenenbildner/innen an der Schnittstelle zwischen Verwaltung und Pädagogik

In adult education, fields of activity have lost their strict boundaries: administrative employees also perform pedagogical work – such as counselling, for instance – and full-time pedagogical employees also have to handle administrative work – e.g. in project management. Both qualitatively and quantitatively, administrative employees play an important role in the pedagogical functioning of institutions of adult education, although this factor is often neglected in both research and measures of…

Organisationales Lernen als Lernweg des Subjekts

The following article focuses on the debate on organizational learning from an adult-educational point of view. In most approaches to organizational learning the members of an organization are regarded as the main drivers of organizational learning processes. However, such approaches do not systematically incorporate important presumptions of learning-theory, although this promises to create a better understanding of adult-educational experiences within organizations. Hence, the article present…

Budde, Jürgen; Venth, Angela: Genderkompetenz für lebenslanges Lernen / Derichs-Kunstmann, Karin u.a. (Hrsg.): Gender-Kompetenz für die Bildungsarbeit

Behringer, Friederike; Käpplinger, Bernd; Pätzold, Günter (Hrsg.): Betriebliche Weiterbildung

Maier-Gutheil, Cornelia: Zwischen Beratung und Begutachtung

Kronauer, Martin (Hrsg.): Inklusion und Weiterbildung

Aneignung von Lernorten in der Erwachsenenbildung

A video-study of language courses in adult education analyses the transformation of a learning side into a pedagogical space. The definition of pedagogical space is linked to the theory of social space. Space is thus viewed as an arrangement and perception between human beings and social goods. This recasting of social space as a pedagogical space specifies social space to include two additional elements: the representation of knowledge and pedagogical media. For this study, the transformation …