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The article focuses on the historically empirical data of DIE Zeitschrift für Erwachsenenbildung and contributes to adult educational journal research. By analyzing bibliographic meta data, continuities and changes in the content spectre are identified. The compositions of authors is differentiated between occasional and regular authors and compared to other scientific journals. Data on the journal’s reputation in the field complete the picture.
Data on adult education centres kept since 1962 shows interesting longitudinal historical results regarding time structures for adult education classes offered at adult education centres: (1) The increase in continuing education activities which can be observed on the whole is only accounted for by course-type classes, not by individual classes. (2) The average course time has decreased by about 20 percent over the last 20 years. (3) With respect to forms of time organisation, the evening cours…
Im Rahmen des DIE-Projekts "Weiterbildungsstatistik" wird in Kooperation mit dem Bundesarbeitskreis "Arbeit und Leben" ein statistisches Erhebungs- und Auswertungsverfahren getestet, das darauf abzielt, Umfang und Reichweite politischer Erwachsenenbildung regelmäßig und zuverlässig statistisch abzubilden. Um das Angebot an Veranstaltungen zur politischen Bildung statistisch erfassbar zu machen, bedarf es einer Begriffsklärung und Abgrenzung des Feldes "politische Bildung". Zu diesem Zweck hat K…
The JDC (Defence and Citizenship Day) has become an essential element in the fight against illiteracy in France. It not only furnishes annual statistics for national, regional and local policy evaluation, but also identifies those young adults within a entire cohort (mostly 17–19) who need help with their literacy skills, so that they can be referred to by support organisations. It is difficult to assess very precisely the impact of post-JDC actions carried out by JDC partners. Neither the JDC…
Participants related and milieu related aspects of participation in adult education It is assumed that the participants quotas, participants interests and participants motivation do not only differ regarding the central sociodemografic features but also differ strongly with regard to the respective milieu affiliation. Theoretically the milieu studies add on to the traditional pilot studies of adult education (cp. Strzelewicz among others 1966) and the differentiating analyses of the modern r…
Vor dem Hintergrund der statistischen Datenlage der Weiterbildung und Erwachsenenbildung in Deutschland unter Berücksichtigung europäischer Aspekte werden die Reichweite und die Möglichkeiten eines BMBF-geförderten Projekts zur Weiterbildungsstatistik (2000-2003) erörtert.
Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Erläuterung und Auswertung der Forschungsprojektdatenbank (FoDokAB).
Der Bericht gibt eine zusammenfassende Darstellung über die aktuelle Lage der Volkhochschulen in Deutschland.
