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Prof. Dr. Claudia Pischke, Professorin für Public Health und stellvertretende Direktorin am Institut für Medizinische Soziologie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, erläutert im Gespräch mit Redakteur Jan Rohwerder, wie komplexe Interventionsstudien neue Impulse für Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention geben – und wo die Erwachsenenbildung unterstützen kann.
Learning at the workplace – an “intimate” event The author takes the example of two female employees with a background of migration to show how strongly adults’ motivation to learn and their learning decisions are influenced by personal, deeply private motivations, even when they are pushed into learning by an external influence, as is often the case in companies. The theoretical basis on which the author interprets the case examples in the light of the “intimacy of lifelong learning” is th…
Was bedeutet »Zukunftsfähigkeit« aus Sicht einer Organisation, die täglich mit knappen Ressourcen arbeitet und mit wechselnden Anforderungen und heterogenen Erwartungen konfrontiert ist? Philipp Marquardt nähert sich dieser Frage aus der Praxis eines Organisationsverantwortlichen. Sein Beitrag beschreibt, wie Weiterbildungseinrichtungen unter Bedingungen permanenter Unschärfe handlungsfähig bleiben – nicht trotz, sondern gerade wegen ihrer Fähigkeit zum pragmatischen Improvisieren (»Durchwurste…
This article addresses learning, educational and activity-related prospects upon entering into retirement age and the search for meaning in one's career associated with this. The topic is explored at various levels: first of all autobiographically taking the example of a new, self-employed orientation. At the second level, the case example can be interpreted as part of a societal trend towards activities crossing the age border. Finally prospects for the topic in the context of adult education …
The concept of self-optimisation is closely linked to discourses on lifelong learning and has been discussed in adult education research for some time. The talk about selfoptimisation is mostly articulated as a critique or critical analysis, appears as almost self-evident and thus gets caught up in the pull of normalisation. The established problematisation of self-optimisation is therefore also subjected to problematization in this paper in an attempt to reopen the thinking of the problem. Th…
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…
English version of the "Counselling" tape. What functions can counselling fulfil in literacy courses? Two projects carried out by the former Pedagogic Section of the German Federation of Adult Education Centres clarified this issue in the 1980s ["Literacy" (1982–1985) and "Elementary Education"(1985-19888)]. This summary of the results of both projects clarifies the concept of learning counselling, clarifies the central meaning of non-verbal forms of expression using practical examples and intr…
