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This article explains what paths adults can opt for in order to acquire a reflexive understanding of time while not being content with a purely goal-oriented, “maximising” improvement in time management. Ms. Hribernik adopts Holzkamp’s approach to first of all describe what such “learning to understand time“ needs to involve before then identifying learning possibilities from an Austrian perspective – possibilities which she sees above all in books, but also in lecture events and the activities…
In a small “philosophy story of joy“, the author bends a bow from Aristotle across Kant to utilitarianism. Aristotle had defined joy as that, where a person finds himself. Kant on the other hand accents, that a person can only be satisfied with himself who lives in unison with his moral beliefs. With the utilitarian the author retains: “It is not questionable, whether we are all strive for joy, but what joy is.“ Here the task of (adult) education affiliates: It must first enable people to judge…
Macht Bildung glücklich? Wohl kaum zwangsläufig. Bildungsprozesse können aber bei Lernenden wie bei Lehrenden Momente des Wohlbefindens und höchster Zufriedenheit auslösen. Roger Willemsen nennt diese Momente im Interview „epiphanisch“. Nun hat gerade die Erwachsenenbildung auch Glück „im Angebot“ – Gründe genug für die DIE-Redaktion, mit dem Marienkäfer-Heft auf die Suche nach unterbelichteten Aspekten des Bildungshandelns zu gehen.
