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The growing importance of lifelong learning and adult education appears to be a generally accepted fact. Less well known, on the other hand, are the causes, conditions, forms and types of development in all their variety as well as the changing trends and options for solutions to be observed at different levels. This situation requires broad, intensive and sustained empirical research on adult and continuing education. This Research Memorandum – commissioned by the Section for Adult Education a…
In his presentation, Paul J. Edelson describes the current state of American adult education and refers to historical backgrounds in the process. He examines the "Learning Society" in the age of technology, i.e. the impacts of computers and the internet on education. He also touches on the American further education market and delineates possible ‘pictures’ and approaches to further education.
This paper arguments that if competency assessment is to make any contribution as a potentially “liberating” curriculum strategy for struggles of community development and self-determination then it needs to contest the authoritarianism of the national qualification frameworks that have been established in Australia and New Zealand. This article critiques research and policy efforts, in particular for indigenous learners which seek to merely make authoritarian curriculum and assessment structur…
From 2002 on the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will be sponsoring 80 regional networks in the context of the „Learning Regions – promotion of networks“ programme. This programme will be scientifically monitored by a consortium formed by the German Institute of Adult Education (DIE), the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW), and the universities of Duisburg and Munich. The author will be in charge of the overall scientific supervision. In his article he pres…
Numeracy practices are always dependent on the social context in which they emerge. These contexts, however, are unstable because of a range of technological and socio-political changes. How does this instability affect people’s agency in the world? After reviewing key approaches to numeracy practices research, we distil key findings from recent numeracy studies. We introduce the concept of the numerate environment to examine the context in which opportunities, supports and demands present them…
Hannelore Jouly, Direktorin der Stadtbücherei Stuttgart, umreißt im DIE-Gespräch “Begegnung mit dem Unerwarteten” Dimensionen konzeptioneller und medialer Planung und Gestaltung von neuen Lernräumen und veränderten Lernarrangements in einem multimedialen Lernzentrum. Erhard Schlutz fragt im Beitrag “Vom Methodenklmepner zum Lernarchitekten?”, wie flexibel Lehren und Lernen gestaltet werden müssen, um lebenslange, selbstgesteuerte Lernprozesse an unterschiedlichen - auch virtuellen - Lernorten z…
Dieser REPORT 29 thematisiert die Schwierigkeiten und Herausforderungen, vor denen die neuen Bundesländer im Bildungsbereich nach der Wiedervereinigung stehen.
