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Adult education for people without school graduation or graduation from vocaltional training Report on a study for the OECD Germany participated in the partial undertaking “adult learning of the low educated and low skilled” within the OECD-programme “Thematic review on adult learning: The second round”. The contribution describes the decrease of the level of qualification of the younger population and from this it names the resulting requirements to adult education.
The article sets out to identify common prejudices on e-learning. Its pedagogical surplus depends on the methodical-didactic design. The authors back their verdict by experiences of learners in an online-based course. Learners judge new-mediasupported learning as being intensive, communicative, but time-consuming. E-learning requires self-discipline, selfmotivation, self-organisation, good time management and basic technical competences.
Religion, ethics and adult education Religion and ethics serve as a relevant topic in various contexts of adult education, be it as a challenge for self-reflection or as point of departure in public debate. This issue will address various aspects bringing together academic discourse and practical work. The authors will in particular focus on social issues.
Die Bedeutung von Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung in nationalen wie internationalen Bildungsdebatten ist unbestritten. Eine Vielzahl der in Deutschland laufenden Projekte wird im Jahr 2010 Arbeitsergebnisse präsentieren und erste Nachweise für deren erfolgreiche Implementierung in die gesellschaftliche Praxis erbringen. Dieses Heft versammelt sowohl Beiträge zur Theorieentwicklung als auch Grundlagen für deren praktische Umsetzung. Gastherausgeberin: Monika Tröster
Die Individualisierung des Lernens (Selbstgesteuertes Lernen) und das schnelle Veralten von Wissen erfordern neue Lernarchitekturen. Sie sind im Wesentlichen geprägt von den Neuen Medien. Der räumliche und zeitliche Lernzusammenhang zwischen Menschen wird abgelöst von virtuellen Lernwelten. Genau davon kann die Erwachsenenbildung profitieren, indem sie den Lernenden neue Wege anbietet und einen breiten Rahmen für Zielsetzung, Intensität oder Ausgestaltung des Lernprozesses ermöglicht. Jedoch wa…
The aim of wider-benefits research is to record the complexity of benefits and other effects on both the personal and the societal levels deriving from the individual’s educational efforts. The central issue is: “What changes are affected by learning interventions?” Schuller/Desjardins 2010, p. 229). The exploration of the wider benefits of learning is still in its infancy. Pioneers in this field of research are, in particular, to be found in the UK – the Centre for Research on the Wider B…
Tangled up in learning stories On the basis of the film „Entre of les Murs“ of Laurent Cantet education processes are described as integral aspects of the subjective relationship to the life-world of humans. The consequences for adult education are to generate more exact and up-to-date knowledge about the achievements of the subjects, in which they transform the social requirements into their own learning projects.
„Learn habitus“ has its roots in the concept of habitus by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. According to Bourdieu the „habitus“ is represented in the whole of all signs of life, i.e. the daily routine, job, clothes, behaviour, taste, value judgement, in which a person is bedded and which has become the person’s second nature. If our behaviour can be understood as ways of expressing the habits, so can be the way we learn. The learn habitus represents the whole of the learning disposition …
