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Bezugnehmend auf das Gustav Radbruchs Konzept des sozialen Rechtsstaates, das in verschiedenen Facetten der Weimarer Republik vorgestellt wird, plädiert der Autor dafür, dass sich auch die heutigen Vertreter der Erwachsenenbildung¤Bezugnehmend auf das Gustav Radbruchs Konzept des sozialen Rechtsstaates, das in verschiedenen Facetten der Weimarer Republik vorgestellt wird, plädiert der Autor dafür, dass sich auch die heutigen Vertreter der Erwachsenenbildung in diese Tradition stellen und a…
Der Beitrag schildert die schlechten Rahmenbedingungen für eine an aufklärerischen Zielen, wie Solidarität und Empathie, festhaltende politische Erwachsenenbildung. Ausser der Entwertung in der Politik ist sie demnach zunehmend von¤den Bezugswissenschaften - Politikdidaktik und Erwachsenenbildungswissenschaft - isoliert. Hinzukommt, dass selbst innerhalb der politischen Erwachsenenbildung kein einheitliches Selbstverständnis mehr herrscht.
Parent and child programmes are the most frequently offered programmes in family education. The intergenerational experiment of education and lifelong learning has proven its worth in adult and family education and may be regarded as a counter weight to the »expertisation« during the early childhood.
This contribution deals with the definition of adult basic education and its entanglement with interests and power relations in the field of public education administration of the German Laender. As the New Literacy Studies view literacy as a social practice that is related to interests and power relations, guided interviews concerning the definition of adult basic education as well as legitimising rationales from the perspective of education administration were illustrated. The interviews are …
The article focusses on the importance of time for the political adult education. Current socio-cultural and socio-economic challenges – in particular: the commodification and acceleration in the context of education and learning – results in a wide range of pressing time issues. However the adult education und the political education pay little attention to the importance of time. For this reason, this issue will be deepened in the article. First, the situation of the political adult education…
Report system adult education: the decline of participation in adult education Adult education and lifelong learning rate high; equally high are the expectations towards it, especially with regard to individual employability, the firms ability to be competitive and the location site Germany. But all pleas and support obviously do not have the anticipated impact because the participation in adult education has decreased. Does this mean that an upward trend of decades is interrupted or is it p…
The opening up of higher education and the development of higher education insti-tutions as institutionalized and organized settings for lifelong learning has been focused in educational policy and scientific discourse for more than ten years. Consequently, research at the interface between further education and higher education research at international, European and national levels has been intensified in order to disclose framework conditions, forms and challenges regarding current and expec…
