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Holzapfel, Günther: More self-consciousness for pedagogy! A reply to REPORT 3/2003 titled "Brain and Learning" Referring to REPORT 3/2003 with its main theme "Brain and Learning" the author criticizes tendences in pedagogy which consider some results of neuro-sciences as confirmation for a naturalistic and biologistic trend. He pleads for emphasizing those aspects of neuro-sciences which are confirmations against obsolete concepts of learning and education as an accumulation of knowledge wi…
Transfer of information and knowledge in development of organisations projects The contribution shows with an example of a project, how it dealt with the organisational development of educational institutions and how the transfer can be organised in an extensive way.
Sustainable learning Insights into a panel study under the category “emotionality in learning processes" After clarification of the term "sustainable learning", it is discussed by means of empirical material of a present research project to what extent emotional factors play a role in sustainable learning.
Research on participation on the topic learning resistance A concept of participative research and its results The research methods and results from a subproject on learning resistance are introduced, which came into being in the framework of a research project of a Hamburg adult education institutions on self-directed learning and social milieus.
Anhand der Begriffe: Wahrnehmen, Denken, Lernen und Lehren wird aus den Perspektiven der Neurowissenschaften, der konstruktivistischen Erkenntnistheorie und der fachdidaktischen Forschungen zu Lernervorstellung eine Theorie der Vermittlung - also des Lernens und Lehrens - vorgestellt.
Aus einer konstruktivistischen Perspektive wird untersucht, wie wir über Lernen reden und welche Plausibilität ein solcher Diskurs erreichen kann.
Ausgehend von dem gesellschaftlichen Befund eines zunehmend entstrukturierten Lebenslaufs wird in dem Beitrag der Bedarf nach einer (erwerbs)biographischen Gestaltungs- und Steuerungskompetenz betont, die auch neue Bildungs- und Beratungsleistungen notwendig machen.
In dem Beitrag wird begründet, dass das Einbeziehen von nichtbewussten Lernformen - implizites Wissen - in institutionalisierten Lernprozesse eine sinnvolle Ergänzung zum bewussten Lernen darstellt.
