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The National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) reflects upon adult learning from the perspective of a life profile. The article describes the system and methodological approach of the NEPS with a special focus on the group of adults. The education and employment history as well as the consequent competence development of the adult working age population is analyzed. Overall, 60,000 people are surveyed in the NEPS including more than 11,000 adults. First data is already available to the expert publ…
The article introduces two commemorative articles for anniversaries of adult education providers and identifies their trivialising way of dealing with problematic parts of history. The commemorative article for the 100th anniversary of the „Heimvolkshochschule Tingleff“ plays the role of its managing director during the NS-regime down. The commemorative article on behalf of a city’s 800th anniversary dealing with the history of the Community Adult Education Centre Dresden excludes the problemat…
„Partizipation“ oder „Bürgerbeteiligung“ – diese Schlagworte sind seit der UN-Konferenz für Umwelt und Entwicklung 1992 in Rio de Janeiro wieder hochaktuell geworden. Die Agenda 21 sieht Konsultationsprozesse zur Gemeindeplanung vor, an denen alle gesellschaftlichen Gruppen teilhaben sollen. In zunehmendem Maße ist es Aufgabe von Bildungseinrichtungen, diese Konsultationen professionell zu unterstützen. In diesem Band werden die „Zukunftswerkstatt“ und das „Mediationsverfahren“ auf ihre Taug…
The following report focuses on the issue of recording the impact of learning in adult and continuing education. It depicts the complexity of empirical-analytical impact and sensitizes for a differentiated access of adult educational research, based on the demand for evidence-based practice and education policy, which increases the pressure to conduct research on valid data on the impact of educational activities. This is substantiated, inter alia, due to the complex topic and the particulariti…
Stepped courses of studies and professionalization of adult education Reflections against the background of first experiences at the Ruhr-University Bochum The contribution takes the occasion of the dynamics of reform, with the transposition of the study into two cycles, to show policy-making decisions which need to be made for the study offers in the area of adult education. One important point of reference is the question, as to what extent the reform counteracts the efforts concerning pr…
It has recently become widely accepted that reluctance to learning in adults may be explained by features inherent in the (presentation of the) subject matter, which may be perceived by the learner as being unsuited to his or her needs. A successful learning environment, the argument goes, must meet certain standards: for instance, learning should be active, self-directed, situated and constructive. Reluctance to learning in explained as a negative reaction to the absence of these standards. Th…
Die Programmatik des Lebenslangen Lernens ist eng verbunden mit der Forderung nach vertikaler und horizontaler Durchlässigkeit und Transparenz im Bildungssystem. Nach wie vor ist ein durchlässiges Bildungssystem für alle Lebensphasen und Lebenslagen jedoch nicht realisiert, sondern allenfalls programmatisch aktualisiert worden. Gegenwärtig sind vor allem verschiedene Rahmensetzungen im Gespräch, die auf europäischer Ebene die Vergleichbarkeit und Anschlussfähigkeit von Bildungsgängen unterstütz…
