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Concept maps in the teaching-learning context Concept maps are understood to mean two-dimensional structural presentations of knowledge or information in the form of a network. This article explains the principle of the concept map, including in relation to the mind map, and sums up results of teaching-learning research for its use. Readers find out what purposes concept maps can be used for (e.g. knowledge diagnostics), how their learning efficacy is assessed and what factors can boost th…
Am 25./26. Juni 2001 fand eine Fachtagung und Plenarsitzung der Konzertierten Aktion Weiterbildung (KAW) statt unter dem Motto: „Qualitätsentwicklung in der Weiterbildung – politischer Handlungsbedarf“. In der Arbeitsgruppe 1 „Selbstevaluation/Akkreditierung von Einrichtungen“ hielt Dr. Angelika Schade ein Referat über die „Qualitätssicherung für Lehre und Studium durch Akkreditierung“. Der 1999 von HRK und KMK eingesetzte Akkreditierungsrat hat ein Akkreditierungsverfahren zur Einführung vo…
Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, welche Wirkung und Auswirkung Kommunikation im Lernprozess von Erwachsenen hat. Dabei wird auf vor allem auf erwachsenenpädagogische Methoden eingegangen.
Programmes for persons who are not acquainted with learning can only be successful if teaching and learning is understood as a dialogical process between trainer and participant. One of the major abilities participants should achieve during this process is to take over the responsibility for their own learning. The author describes tools developed in her own practical work: a set of questions designed as a framework for the negotiation of the individual learning project.
Urbanising processes have built up city regions. The borders of large cities can not be identified any longer. The hinterland has increasingly attracted population and companies. Without control, this kind of settlement development causes financial problems to the large cities as well as environmental and structural problems. Although cities and their hinterland are closely linked and although there are clearly visible problems, there is still an evident lack of visions for developing city regi…
