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Religion and adult education The combination of "Religion and adult education" has conspicuously various facets, especially in practice. Religious adult education will be presented by means of examples of Christian, Islamic and Jewish adult education. But Religion is also subject matter of secular adult education and for that reason it will be considered separately in this context. An additional focus will be on the inevitable reference to religious aspects of intercultural adult education b…
Cognition, emotion and mental self-regulation: on the nascency and solution of inner conflicts The contribution provides a short overview of several results on nascency and solution of inner conflicts which in the frame of a research programme on mental self-regulation in learning processes of adults were gained. The author was head of the project and she draws practical conclusions for adult education.
In diesem Report werden beispielhafte innovative und erfolgreiche Werbemaßnahmen und -kampagnen aus dem In- und Ausland vorgestellt, die darauf abzielen, Menschen für die Teilnahme an Weiterbildung zu gewinnen. Diese Aktivitäten unterscheiden sich sowohl hinsichtlich ihrer Urheber und Reichweite als auch in Bezug auf die eingesetzten Instrumente und Medien. Präsentiert werden zum einen allgemeine, personenunspezifische Werbemaßnahmen, zum anderen Beispiele personenspezifischer Bildungswerbung…
In dem Rückblick wird die Geschichte der Zeitschrift Literatur-und Forschungsreport Weiterbildung aus Anlass ihres 25jährigen Bestehens gewürdigt. Die angenommene Perspektive ist die eines "Lesers", der sich "wichtiger Leseerfahrungen" erinnert und durch kritische Kommentierung Anregungen für die Weiterarbeit gibt. Stärken und Schwächen der Zeitschrift werden reflektiert, z.B. das Theorie-Praxis-Problem, das in einigen Ausgaben auffällig ist. Trotz der angenommenen Perspektive des Lesers i…
In the context of lifelong learning, the validation of prior learning has become a contested topic. Views differ about whether procedures should be oriented to (work) requirements – verifying that people match a defined competence profile – or be designed to support people in their personal development. In the latter case, the procedures mainly involve self-evaluation while in the first case they are concerned with external evaluation. In this paper a validation procedure is analysed that inclu…
Biography and Education Biographical aspects are coming increasingly under the focus of teaching-learning and educational research in the context of international comparative studies and the debate over self-organised and self-guided learning. Different theoretical approaches are selected and current empirical findings in the area of biographical research are presented in this issue in order to shed light on the interrelationship between education and biography.
