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With this article, the author (of the Institute of International Cooperation, an institution within the German Adult Education Association, IIZ/DVV) opens up a readers’ discussion in this publication on the subject of education and the EU extension. In his article, an overview of the points of discussion is given. After the breakdown of the socialist societies in the middle and Eastern European countries, educational facilities suffered a severe loss of authority. This has only partly been ba…
Private individuals in Germany bear in some cases high costs individually and spend leisure time to a considerable extent for their professional further qualification. To what extent does the investment of money and time pay for course participants in further education? The author outlines how course participants estimate to which degree they benefit from their professional further education and how they judge the relationship of cost and effect. A high degree of satisfaction is found. However…
The first generation of people with professorships started work in the 1970s.They were scientifically exploring and at the same time working practically aligned. Their educational scientific basic approach to work was taken up by the succeeding generations of scientists, developed further and extended by new topics. The futher alteration of generations lets us await a prosperous development of the panel that is open towards the future.
Matthias Pfüller outlines the historical development of central and peripheral regions in the former GDR and former West Germany. Both qualities are found to be relatively persistent. Still, there have been successful attempts at bringing centre and periphery closer together, such as the FRG „educational offensive“ in the 1960s and similar efforts in the GDR. Since the 1990s, however, Germany’s inner dissimilarities have not been further reduced, but are rather on the increase. The author dou…
The German Adult Education Centres (VHS) consider themselves as further learning institutions for all whose aim it is to address the population at large. However, the data basis on the extent to which socially disadvantaged groups are reached is restricted. The present contribution investigates to which extent persons with a low level of school education are represented among the participants of the Adult Education Centres in Berlin. The investigation is linked to previous results of the resear…
Die Frage, was aus der Geschichte für die Zukunft gelernt werden kann bzw. ob eine Beschäftigung mit ihr zukunftsfähige Lernprozesse anregt, wird kontrovers diskutiert. In ihrem Beitrag vertritt Christine Zeuner die Auffassung, dass die Auseinandersetzung mit historischen Ereignissen insbesondere zur Aneignung historischer Kompetenz (Negt, 2010) und zur Entwicklung einer kollektiven Erinnerungskultur (Assmann, 2016) führen kann und die Entfaltung einer kollektiven professionellen Identität bei …
In der Diskussion über Transfer zwischen Praxis und Wissenschaft wird häufig eine Dis-tanz zwischen den beiden Bereichen festgestellt. Im Gespräch erläutert Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Rolf Arnold, Seniorprofessor für Pädagogik an der TU Kaiserslautern, inwiefern es je-doch nicht nur Distanz, sondern auch Involviertheit gibt – und warum es sinnvoll sein kann, auf den Transferbegriff zu verzichten. Das Gespräch führte Dr. Lars Kilian.
Für jedes gesellschaftliche Handlungsfeld gibt es ein Bildgedächtnis, das einen emotional-affektiven, also nicht-rationalen Zugang zu eben diesem Feld bietet. Wie steht es um das Bildgedächtnis der Erwachsenenbildung? Gibt es vielleicht, wenn nicht Bilder, dann bestimmte Motive, die repräsentativ für die Erwachsenenbildung sind?
