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Im Rahmen des Projekts „Alphabit“ wurden mit Kursleitenden aus dem Bereich Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung telefonische Interviews durchgeführt. Sie konzentrierten sich u. a. auf die Aspekte „Teilnehmende in Kursen“, „Status der Kursleitenden“ und „Neue Medien“. Ziel der Interviews war es, die Möglichkeiten für den Einsatz von neuen Medien in der Alphabetisierungs- und Grundbildungsarbeit besser einschätzen zu können. Einige Aussagen der Kursleitenden geben Anlass zu einer kritischen Betra…
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 …
This overview in table form of the adult education centres survey for 2021 presents key findings pertaining to institutional characteristics, personnel, funding and events.
