Extending belief research to adult basic education: an exploration of some adult educators’ beliefs about numeracy and its teaching

While belief research has become an integral part of the educational research agenda, it has been uneven. One neglected area is the beliefs of adult education teachers. Focusing on five such teachers working in adult basic education and teaching numeracy in Switzerland, this exploratory study uses different data to describe their beliefs about numeracy and its teaching. It is shown that this group holds clearly different views from other groups of adult teachers and it is argued that extending …

Vieregg, Hildegard u.a. (Hrsg.): Museumspädagogik in neuer Sicht - Erwachsenenbildung im Museum

Abschlussbericht des Projektes "Soziale und personale Kompetenzen als Basisqualifikation in der Erwachsenenbildung"

Das Projekt "Soziale und personale Kompetenzen als Basisqualifikation in der Erwachsenenbildung" hatte zum Ziel, die genannte Thematik für Adressaten der Weiterbildungsbereiche Elematarbildung, berufliche Wiedereingliederung und Umschulung zu bearbeiten. Das Buch fasst die Ergebnisse zusammen.

[Wagner, Rainer H. (Hrsg.): Praxis der Veränderung in Organisationen. 1995]

Entwicklung, Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit - ein Perspektivenwechsel in der entwicklungsorientierten Erwachsenenbildung

Weiterbildung in der postedukativen Gesellschaft?

This assumption does not seem plausible at first glance, but rather absurd instead. The regular manifestation of modern age as a knowledge-based society on the one hand as well as the consensual acceptance of the appeal for lifelong learning on the other hand, create the opposite of an image in which the pedagogical aspect of continuing education has been lost. The author argues that learners are increasingly left unsupported, lifelong learning has become more fiction than reality and continui…

Möglichkeiten der Bildung Älterer

Ungeschützte Beschäftigungsverhältnisse in der Frauenbildung

Der Mehrwert einer Begleitstudie

This article examines the surplus value of CiLL as an accompanying study to PIAAC. Consequently, CiLL does not only point out the significance of acquiring competences for senior citizens but also provides a differential outlook on that phase of life. In addition, the study's methodological structure is examined critically.

Wählerisch der Profession verbunden

This article addresses learning, educational and activity-related prospects upon entering into retirement age and the search for meaning in one's career associated with this. The topic is explored at various levels: first of all autobiographically taking the example of a new, self-employed orientation. At the second level, the case example can be interpreted as part of a societal trend towards activities crossing the age border. Finally prospects for the topic in the context of adult education …