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The day after tomorrow Didactical deliberations on the andragogical value chain Educational events should create value, be effectively sustainable in the “time after”. Even if “value” can mean most different things, it is always about the creation of value in educational work. Afterwards something has to be better than before. This article wants to show that for a value creating educational work, a row of didactical decisions need to be reflected upon and arranged. Therewith the focal point…
Vorgestellt werden die Ergebnisse eines SOKRATES- Projekts über europaweit existierende Möglichkeiten zur Akkreditierung schon vorhandenen Erfahrungswissens für einen Hochschulzugang. Besonders hervorgehoben wird das bislang weitgehend ungenutzte Potential dieser Zugangsmöglichkeit zum Studium.
Dargestellt und analysiert werden Ergebnisse der Evaluation eines norwegischen Reformprojekts zur Anerkennung informellen Lernens auf dem Arbeitsmarkt und seine Zukunftschancen.
Didactics – more than the art of teaching? The contribution gives an overview of the historical terms of didactics. With the background of changing paradigms, drawn is the entry of the didactical term into adult education and its development since the 1960s. One focus of the consideration is on the didactical change from “teaching“ to “formation of learning contexts”, which was influenced by the discussion on constructivism. Concluding, the author elaborates on the state of research on didac…
Organisation psychological profit for adult education using the example of "quality" In this contribution organisation psychological theory concepts and empirical methods are used for the current problem of educational institutions of providing a "quality proof" – in the sense of the implementation of quality management systems -, in order to maintain the continuity of their promotion. Before, the organisational psychology is sketched in its extension level, its methods and its reception beh…