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“Reflections on Self-Education” is dedicated to Rolf Arnold on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Like hardly any other representative in the field of continuing educational science, over the past decades Rolf Arnold has provided impulses for the reflection on adult teaching and learning e.g. based on his contributions to constructivist education, interpretive paradigms as well as empowerment didactics. His approach has developed continuously and is now regarded as systemic-constructivist educa…
Educational institutes have always been seen as needing to cooperate: this idea first took shape in education acts and is now increasingly being applied to lifelong learning. In practice, however, there are many arguments against cooperation at institutes of continuing education, not least as it can create unwanted situations of rivalry among the cooperating institutes. To develop models which will help guide schools on issues of cooperation better, further research is required: What advantage…
Dietrich, Stephan; Herr, Monika: Organisational development and new learning cultures The theme “new teaching and learning cultures” is a thematic focus in the professional discourse of adult education for a few years already. One consequence of the hightened attention is an increasingly differentiated understanding of what can be regarded as the ”new teaching and learning cultures”. It can be observed that the treatment of the theme does not allow a restriction on the questions of didactics…
Referiert werden ausgewählte Ergebnisse einer breitangelegten empirischen Studie - aus dem DIE-Projekt: Mediale Innovationen und deren Auswirkungen auf die Organisation von Weiterbildung - zum Einsatz der neuen Medien innerhalb der Volkshochschulen aus der Perspektive der Organisationsforschung. Die Themenfelder sind: technische Infrastruktur, Betreuung der Infrastruktur, Bedeutung der neuen Medien für die Einrichtung, Impulse für die Entwicklung und Entscheidungsstrukturen, Organisationsentw…
Reflections on the current quality debate from a subject scientific perspective The subject scientific theory perspective presented in this contribution makes learning actions from the viewpoint of the learning subjects a subject of discussion. Learning is thereby not composed as a dependent variable of teaching, but as subjective justified acting, that is based on interests, needs and sensitivities which are developed by the learners against the background of societal significance constella…
Monika Kil fasst die Entwicklungs- und Forschungsbedarfe zusammen, die sich auch aus den Tendenzen ergeben, die sich im Rahmen des DIE-Forum 2002 zur Zukunft der Weiterbildungsorganisation(en) abzeichneten. Es wurden sechs Schwerpunkte identifiziert, die bei Veränderungsprozessen von Organisationen in der Weiterbildung zu dringlichen Aufgaben geworden sind: distributive Gerechtigkeit, adäquates Führungsverhalten, Stereotype, (Lern-) Kulturmerkmale, Fortbildungsmerkmale und Beanspruchung. Kil pr…
Weiterbildungsorganisationen stehen in Zeiten von Diskursen über neue Lehr- und Lernkulturen und immer kurzfristigeren gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen unter erheblichem Veränderungsdruck. Das DIE-Forum 2002 versucht zukünftige Bedarfe und Visionen für Weiterbildungsorganisationen aufzuspüren. Die Beiträge der Referenten zu den Themenblöcken Zukunft – Drei Antworten auf eine Herausforderung, Alternde Organisationen – Wissensorganisationen unter Erneuerungsdruck, Organisationen und Neue Medien …
