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Referred back to oneself. Reflexive modernisation and new learning requirements This article probes the relationship between our risk society, reflexive modernity and individual learning. First, social conditions are illuminated (with reference to Beck, Giddens and Lash) which force people to endure uncertainty (Mitscherlich and Marotzki) and gain critical ego strength. Next the author focuses attention on the reality of contemporary ways of dealing with demands, turning to findings from nar…
This study is the first extensive attempt to chart the rise and fall of popular educational movements across Europe following the 1848 revolutions to their demise at the outbreak of World War Two. It examines in detail the relationships between the educational, political and social aspirations of the emergent nationalist, workers' and women's movements, and the challenge to traditional intellectuals and academic knowledge. Following the emergence of the bourgeois public sphere in the early mode…
Der Autor greift die Kritik am interkulturellen Paradigma auf und schlägt für eine zeitgemäße Konzeption interkultureller Bildung vor, praxistheoretische Ansätze und Theorien transformatorischer Bildung miteinander zu verknüpfen. »Inter-kulturelles« Agieren und die damit verbundene grundlegende Erfahrung des Fremden können Veränderungen der Selbst-, Anderen- und Weltverhältnisse nach sich ziehen und damit als Bildungsanlass fungieren.
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…
Following Piaget and recent research on psychodynamics, the author establishes theses on distinctively suitable adult learning. She recapitulates essential theses from her book »Zur Konstruktion des Erwachsenen« (On the Structure of Adults) and refines them with regard to autonomy as a learning incentive. The author believes that learning processes, which are characteristic for adults, occur mainly when old structures are overcome and learning procedures are modified. The learning incentive is…
In developing learning arrangements, adult educators can influence decisions in learning/teaching situations, improve learning effective decisions of learners and therefore enhance the range of opportunities. All aspirations enforcing attitude alterations on learners are unacceptable. Learners should preferably judge the effectiveness of their decisions in alignment with their individual standards. This report indicates methods of controlling learning-effective decisions without limiting the ra…
Movement and experience as the breeding ground of learning From the perspective of experiential pedagogic the two authors develop an outline for experience and action-oriented practice in adult education. They examine in detail the hypotheses confirmed by brain research that the body is the actual site of human learning. This allows them to create the basis for a didactical setting conducive to learning which is heavily based on physical body-related experience in nature and in the communit…
