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Die allgemeine Erwachsenbildung fristet im Segment der Weiterbildung ein Schattendasein. Während die betriebliche Weiterbildung, die Weiterbildung von Erwerbslosen oder die Aufstiegsfortbildung im Rahmen der Diskussion über die Förderung des Lebenslangen Lernens sowie über den demografischen Wandel und dem daraus resultierenden Fachkräftemangel an Aufmerksamkeit gewonnen haben, spielt die allgemeine Erwachsenbildung, deren Förderung im Wesentlichen durch die Länder und Kommunen erfolgt, in dies…
Adult education and historiography The paper aims to explore the role and function of the historical issues within the field of Adult Education and its relations to scholarly historiography to date. Quite similar to the traditional paradigm in the history of education was the history of adult education for a long time also primarily based on pedagogical considerations. Thus research received almost no attention neither from historiography nor from educational science. Despite the current boo…
Professionalization in adult education and the memory culture The discussion of the adult education and its history opens for a closer look at the process of its professionalization. The position of the temporal delimitation and the focusing on the contents come into focus. It turns out that the history of woman education is not represented explicitly in textbooks on the history of the adult education. Focussing on historical factual knowledge and experience knowledge, the analysis of memor…
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