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Scientific adult learning discussions refer to the concept of “region” mainly in policy contexts. Against this background, the author develops an approach to investigate regions from an organizational point of view. In a qualitative interview study using grounded theory within the framework of action-centered geography, he shows that adult education organizations and professionals construct regions in pedagogical practice. These practices need to be analyzed as a complex interplay between marke…
Biography orientation and didactics Deliberations for the guidance of biographical learning in adult education In the practice of adult education methods and concepts of biographical learning have since long been integral part of didactical deliberations and they are newly made subject of discussion again and again with changing reasons and terms. For some time the concept of "Biographizität" is referred to in these discussions without the relevance of this term, which was developed in the …
Wie ist die Situation des Personals und der Personalgewinnung in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung? Welche Folgen hat das sog. Herrenberg-Urteil des Bundessozialgerichts für Träger und Kurse? Hierüber sprechen wir mit Dr. Christiane Ehses, stellvertretende Direktorin und pädagogische Leiterin des Hessischen Volkshochschulverbands, Thiemo Fojkar, Vorsitzender des Vorstands des Internationalen Bunds (IB ) und Vorsitzender des Vorstands des Bundesverbands der Träger beruflicher Bildung (BBB ), un…
This overview in table form of the adult education centres survey for 2021 presents key findings pertaining to institutional characteristics, personnel, funding and events.
Looking ahead – 30-year REPORT The 30th anniversary issue of the REPORT reviews ideas, research findings and articles from a present-day perspective and extrapolates these into the future. To this end, texts from the two founding editors, Horst Siebert and Johannes Weinberg, have subsumed articles under six different topical rubrics and reread these from a present-day perspective from thirty years of REPORT. The articles are prefaced and concluded by two interviews respectively providing a ret…
