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"Introduction into adult education“ Constitution of object and theory perspectives in the medium of a specific literature genre The contribution analyses in an observation of second order the specific method, with which the newly "introduction into adult education“ is constituted its object and thereby brings to bear a special perspectivity. The four analysed introductions make a topic of adult education as a double search move, as professional learning intercede, of learning as an institut…
Traditionally, adult foreign language learning is an issue of foreign and second language acquisition research. This book advocates increased adult educational research in this particular field of practice, which is presented in a detailed overview of theories and concepts, research, statistics, teaching-learning approaches and recommendations. Case studies demonstrate how qualitative methods of programme analysis, video interaction research and biography analysis are used as approaches to adul…
A variety of investigations are concerned with examining competencies of professionals in fields of adult education, neglecting the question what characterizes the activities they perform in order to organize learning situations. By analyzing an opening sequence of two different adult education lessons, the author shows, how microethnographic approaches of analyzing videotaped face-to-face interaction offer new insights in how participants ordinarily deal with challenges of establishing and sus…
Initial results of the Level One Survey Germany (leo.) show that functional illiteracy affects 14.5 percent of working-age population (18–64 years of age). This translates into 7.5 million people who lack functional literacy skills in Germany. We will first introduce the method and design of the study. We will then explain the decisions taken in order to obtain the estimate of the dimension of functional illiteracy. These decisions were carefully taken, and they have contributed to a rather con…
From the “Göttinger 18” in the “Wyhler Wald”. The learning movement of a social movement beginning in 1957. 18 German nuclear physicists signed a declaration in 1957 in which they refused to take part in the production, testing and use of nuclear weapons. This “Göttinger Declaration” was the beginning of the anti-atomic energy movement, which subsequently developed into a self-organised educational scene. One symbol of this is the Wyhler Wald Adult Education Centre in Baden, which the article …
Starting from constructivist, neurophysiologic and learning psychological deliberations the actual learning place should be described as the human being because only within him is where the learning takes place. Unanimously though, learning is always carried out in interaction with contextual factors. The outer environment – and therewith also local conditions – influence the processing of information. Hereunto three examples are named: (1) The Loci method links memory contents with places. (2)…
In einem Bundes-Modellprojekt der Neuen Arbeit Saar GmbH (NAS) werden ehemalige langzeitarbeitslose Sozialhilfeempfänger/innen umgeschult zu Maler/inne/n, Tischler/inne/n, Gärtner/inne/n oder zur/zum Bürokauffrau/mann. Der vorliegende Zwischenbericht erläutert Grundlagen, Methoden und Erfahrungen bei der Durchführung. Ziel ist ein selbstorganisiertes Lernen der Teilnehmer/innen. Dazu wurde in der Umsetzungsphase ein Bildungspass mit einem Methodenmix entwickelt. Wesentlicher Bestandteil ist die…
Die Gruppe der Langzeitarbeitslosen bleibt relativ groß - selbst in Zeiten zurückgehender Arbeitslosigkeit - und stellt eine Herausforderung für die berufliche Weiterbildung dar. Bisherige Konzepte der fachlich - funktionalen Qualifizierung haben sich als unzureichend erwiesen. Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes stehen didaktisch-methodische Modelle, praxiserprobte Methoden und Instrumente für die Arbeit mit Langzeitarbeitslosen, die neue Impulse und neue Orientierungen für die Weiterbildungsarbeit verm…
In this report, three different methods to approach Howard Gardner‘s »Five Minds for the Future« are revealed, which are each a connecting factor to adult education. As a popular scientific article to psychology and education in the context of a general educational debate, »Five Minds« indicates that the concept of independent adult education is not generally acknowledged. As educational theory, it serves as a useful tool for determining educational objectives. As a scientific creation, which c…
Competence Assessment in Working with the Disabled. Experiences Gathered in Franz Sales House in Essen The report focuses on the challenges of implementing a system for competence assessment in the Franz Sales House in Essen – a social institution for the disabled. The authors point out methods for the competence assessment of employees in a social institution to adjust them to future requirements and use them as a base for an effective management of educational processes. Experiences gathered…
