Gestufte Studiengänge und Professionalisierung der Erwachsenenbildung

Stepped courses of studies and professionalization of adult education Reflections against the background of first experiences at the Ruhr-University Bochum The contribution takes the occasion of the dynamics of reform, with the transposition of the study into two cycles, to show policy-making decisions which need to be made for the study offers in the area of adult education. One important point of reference is the question, as to what extent the reform counteracts the efforts concerning pr…

Theoretische Grundlagen einer geschlechtergerechten Didaktik

Theoretical basics of a gender equal didactics Substantiations and consequences The contribution makes a subject of discussion the significance of the category gender for theoretical basics of didactical approaches in adult education. Structural gender characterize the adult education research, the institutions, the educational situations, the educational apprehension as well as the people participating with the educational actions and the worlds of their lives. These conditions for outco…

Das Kompetenzkonzept von PISA und IALS

The competence concept of PISA and IALS New impulses for adult education through international comparative studies In the contribution the literacy concept, which is new to the German education discussion, and some of the results of IALS are presented, whereas parallels but also differences are shown to the PISA study. The causales for the central result of the missing basic competences are questioned, whereas clues are given to contexts between antiquated teaching methods and often lament…

Entgrenzer von Lernorten / entgrenzter Lernort

Through their employment in adult education, or as an additional means of learning alongside adult education, the media contribute towards the shedding of limitations of the place of learning and are themselves places of disengagement at the same time. The author, in a media-analytic perspective, outlines how communicators from the world of publishing are integrated into the didactic triangle and thus devaluate the pedagogical frame of the learning situation. At the same time new structures are…

„Was ist Migration?“ Risiken eines essentialistischen Migrationsbegriffs in der Erwachsenenbildung

While the calls to take more notice of the significance of migration for adult education are loud and clear, notably little attention is paid to them with regard to work on categories. In adult education, fundamental theoretical work on definitions of “migration” is still far from complete. Even though individual studies deal with the term, it seems that attempts to clarify categories remain scarce. If adult education research on migration has a genuine interest in examining the risks of the hi…

»Als Pädagogin frage ich mich, was mit jenen passiert, die keine Erfolgsgeschichte vorweisen können.«

Methodische Innovationen durch neue Nutzungen und Kombinationen einer alten Methode. Das Beispiel der Programmanalyse

Program analyses are considered as genuine methods of research in further education. The basic understanding is that innovation is not only an invention of new methods, but also an implementation of existing methods in new ways. The most important approaches of program analysis will be presented and discussed concerning their alteration. This is also relevant for qualitative research in further education in general.

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Dialoge

Dieses Heft widmet sich dem Thema "Dialoge": gesellschaftlich notwendigen Dialogen, Dialogfähigkeit aus konstruktivistischer Sicht und sprachlichen Konstruktionen von Wirklichkeit, dem Geschlechterdialog nach dem postfeministischen Arrangement, der Notwendigkeit von Dialogen zwischen den Generationen. Neben dem Dialog zwischen Menschen aus Ost- und Westdeutschland und zwischen in Deutschland lebenden Ausländern und Deutschen werden auch virtuelle Dialogformen und dafür notwendige Kompetenzen th…

Anleitung für die Aneignung der Fremde

Guide books provide instructions for the discovery and exploration of new environments. The author identifies educational functions such as selection and directed attention to prepare the object for appropriation. Using pictures, guide books direct the attention to things which are supposedly worth seeing thus functioning as a visual guide. At the same time, in all identifying functions the author draws attention to the medium’s limitation and identifies the resulting limitations to appropriati…