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Beratungsstellen und Migrationsdienste der AWO stellen vermehrt Veränderungen im Beratungsbedarf älterer Migrant/en/innen fest. Unterschiedliche Barrieren (Sprache, Information, traditionelles Denken) führen dazu, dass Dienste/Einrichtungen der Altenhilfe nur selten in Anspruch genommen werden. Der Altenhilfe fehlen Sensibilität und Informationen über die Bedürfnisse älterer Migrant/en/innen. Seit 2000 strebt die AWO die interkulturelle Öffnung ihrer Dienste und Einrichtungen an. Der Überblick …
„Construction“ and „self organization“ in adult pedagogy Deliberations on the pedagogical status of two concepts Constructivistical concepts have pervaded the younger adult pedagogical discussion in equally promissory as problem marked forms. The contribution unfolds an exemplary analysis fo the two constructivistical key notions „construction“ and „self organization“ which calls attention to the notion logical presentation of a problem as it is so far widely unconsidered in the adult peda…
Non-Participation in Work-based Training in Europe. Results of a Field Study CVTS3 After a review of theories and empirical results concerning enterprise-based continuing training, results of the enterprise survey CVTS3 are discussed with a focus on training abstinence. It is shown that most non-training enterprises do not see a need for training. Public financing measures for the promotion of continuing training are likely to be less efficient for these enterprises, while awareness campaign…
Karl Benjamin Preusker (1786-1871) war ein bedeutender Vordenker und Wegbereiter des öffentlichen Bibliothekswesens in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. 1828 gründete er die erste deutsche Stadtbibliothek in Großenhain. Lebenspraktische Wissensvermittlung, heimatkundliche Kenntnisse, Gemeinwohlorientierung und Hilfe zur Selbstbildung waren zentrale Bestandteile seines Volksbildungsbegriffs. Die bildungsreformerischen Bemühungen von K.B. Preusker fanden in seinen späteren Jahren auch öffen…
Changing the focus on Natural Sciences At present, public debates postulate more attention to natural sciences in the education sector. First, we will examine the precarious status of natural sciences in adult education and than argue that the traditional focus on natural sciences need to be readjusted. This change of focus aims at a general understanding of scientific developments by which both the individual and the society as a whole will gain and maintain its capacity to judge and act on…
The Observation of the Observer Constructive adult education The entry of constructive perception into adult education is closely linked to the name of Horst Siebert. Together, and in the debate with Rolf Arnold he began, at the beginning of 1990, to “perturb” or rather refresh thinking on adult education. How this “fresh thinking” developed in the shaping of scientific thinking is the question which, based on three texts from Horst Siebert from 1991, 1993 and 1999, will be analysed in this…
