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Normative Patterns of Biography and Contradictory Experiences as Resources in Women’s Educational Biographies As part of a research project on discontinuities in female educational and professional careers, this essay focusses on conflicting expectations women experience – conflicts between set normative social standards and biographies on the one hand, and the different individual plans and perspectives on the other hand. Group discussions among the participants of a Women’s Studies Program…
In February 2009, a national association of guidance practitioners and scientific experts, known as the German National Guidance Forum for Education, Career and Employment (nfb), presented a widely recognized key issues paper. The following report comments on the paper from the perspective of continuing education research with a special focus on the following issue: Will the structural improvement of continuing educational counselling lead to an increase of participation in adult education? Due…
This paper brings into focus the discourse on competences and reviews critically the potential of large-scale assessments. The measurement of competences in adulthood is a step towards a deeper understanding of the development of competences during the life course, although only domain specific and not general competences are taken into consideration. Based on the current research, the debate on competences will be reflected and the central points in the field of modeling the constructs of skil…
Concept maps in the teaching-learning context Concept maps are understood to mean two-dimensional structural presentations of knowledge or information in the form of a network. This article explains the principle of the concept map, including in relation to the mind map, and sums up results of teaching-learning research for its use. Readers find out what purposes concept maps can be used for (e.g. knowledge diagnostics), how their learning efficacy is assessed and what factors can boost th…
This article addresses teaching and learning of movements, in particular by exploring the following points: »orientation towards sense and meaning«, »making differences possible«, »orientation towards effect«, »forming notions of movement«, »making experiences possible«, »situational setting« and »learning through movement tasks«. In sum, overarching principles are deduced for a didactically oriented movement theory which is equally instructive for scholars as well as persons working in the fie…
This article adopts the PISA study’s staged competence model in the area of football. The authors specify five levels of competency in football literacy to serve as the basis for an adult education curriculum. The motivation for the study is the staging of the World Cup in a country which was the loser in the PISA study: Germany. The general public should be knowledgeable at least when it comes to football.
Das Länderporträt bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die gegenwärtige Situation der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung in Liechtenstein. Es deckt wesentliche Aspekte ab, darunter die historische Entwicklung, die gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen, die relevanten Institutionen und deren Angebote, die Teilnehmendenquoten sowie die Finanzierungsmechanismen. Darüber hinaus werden die internationalen Kontakte und Kooperationen aufgezeigt, die für den Bildungsbereich von Bedeutung sind. Das Buch richtet…
Die Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung als ein Programmbereich der Erwachsenenbildung rückte in den letzten Jahren in den Fokus des Bildungsdiskurses. Programme und Angebote zu entwerfen und zu realisieren, ist die Aufgabe von Programmplanenden und Lehrenden in der Weiterbildung. Im vorliegenden Beitrag geht es um die Frage, welche Spezifika die Angebotsentwicklung im Programmbereich Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung aufweist. Ausgehend von dem allgemeinen Modell der Angebotsentwicklung nach Sc…
