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Continuing education and justice The question as to the connection between education and justice has always been important, even before education was established as a functioning sub-system of society. This applies in a similar manner to the sub-field of “continuing education”. The REPORT examines different approaches to the difficult topic of justice and the required linkage between a discussion based on standards and norms and empirical data (which is too unreliable). The articles especially…
Little is known about the qualifications of trainers in further vocational education. Some hold a degree in educational sciences. At the same time prospective trainers seem to be part of the target group of programs that specialize in adult education. The study focuses on which contents are intended in these programs and whether they could qualify for a later occupational activity as a training professional. For this purpose the course descriptions of 32 programs were analyzed and 10 responsibl…
Erst in den 90er Jahren wird der Begriff „Innovation“ auch mit dem Bildungsbereich in Verbindung gebracht. Was aber bedeutet „Innovation“ in der Erwachsenenbildung? Angeregt durch die Resonanz auf den gleichnamigen Preis des DIE gehen die Autorinnen und Autoren dieser Frage nach. Bei der Auswahl der Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger klärt sich am Beispiel der ausgezeichneten Projekte, was von der Jury im Konsens als innovativ empfunden wird. 1999 waren dies Ansätze zu einer neuen Lernkultur, …
Adult education and historiography The paper aims to explore the role and function of the historical issues within the field of Adult Education and its relations to scholarly historiography to date. Quite similar to the traditional paradigm in the history of education was the history of adult education for a long time also primarily based on pedagogical considerations. Thus research received almost no attention neither from historiography nor from educational science. Despite the current boo…
Professionalization in adult education and the memory culture The discussion of the adult education and its history opens for a closer look at the process of its professionalization. The position of the temporal delimitation and the focusing on the contents come into focus. It turns out that the history of woman education is not represented explicitly in textbooks on the history of the adult education. Focussing on historical factual knowledge and experience knowledge, the analysis of memor…
Ein historischer Längsschnitt zum Verhältnis von Erwachsenenbildung und Schule von der Weimarer Republik bis heute.
Ein historischer Längsschnitt zum Thema Organisation in der Erwachsenenbildung vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute.
Der Autor plädiert angesichts der Präsenz offener und verdeckter Konflikte in der Erwachsenenbildung(-sarbeit) dafür, Konflikte wieder zum Gegenstand der Erwachsenenbildungsdiskussion zu machen. Er zeigt verschiedene Konfliktkonstellationen dieses Feldes auf und beschreibt am Beispiel der politischen Erwachsenenbildung die Relevanz vom »Konflikt« als didaktische Kategorie.
