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Kooperationen und Netzwerke sind zu einem immer bedeutsameren Verfahren der Zusammenarbeit geworden, haben im Rahmen politischer Steuerung und institutioneller Entwicklung gerade auch im Bildungsbereich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Entsprechend nahm auch ihre Erforschung zu und differenzierte sich. Der REPORT bietet mit diesem Thema die Möglichkeit, Forschungsergebnisse aus erziehungswissenschaftlicher, soziologischer und politikwissenschaftlicher Perspektive zur Rolle, Gestalt und Wirkung von Netzwe…
The report covers approaches for research and modeling an orientation to social spaces of educational facilities in synergy with real-world oriented search for education. According to the author, it is based on four central categories: living environments, educational spaces, thematic portals and learning cultures. The analyses of educational participation in social spaces from a meso and macro didactical perspective, based on educational theories, can support the identification of educational …
Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Forschung und Praxis wird für den Transfer von Forschungsergebnissen ertragreich, wenn sie auf einem vertrauensvollen Dialog auf Augenhöhe und einem wertschätzenden Miteinander basieren. Auf dieser Basis können innovative, wissenschaftlich basierte Lösungen für Praxisanliegen implementiert werden.
The textbook provides an introduction to the field of education of older adults and lifelong learning. Coming from an interdisciplinary field of research related to ageing, learning abilities and learning needs of older adults are discussed. Additionally, adequate forms of learning and educational arrangements are presented. A special focus lies upon the correlation between competencies and age, taking into account diverse living conditions and biographies. Thus, the textbook offers impulses to…
The research memorandum for adult and continuing education (2000) focuses systematically on main research areas and contributes significantly to the systematization of the research landscape, the enhancement of possible collaborations and the provision of an overview of research achievements in the discipline for research sponsors as well as the public. Since 2007, adult educational research projects can be entered in a data base in accordance with the memorandum systematic. Acknowledging that …
Hattie‘s study »Visible Learning« is no reason to call for didactic changes in adult education - this is this article’s conclusion of the New Zealander’s meta-study from a continuing educational perspective. Nontheless, Hattie provides significant suggestions for the didactic debate. These suggestions include guidelines for suitable teaching activities as well as his rather provocative findings on the positive effects of actively guided lessons, which do not contradict adult educational conside…
The economy of education identifies various kinds of usefulness of education: individual benefits and also so-called external benefits, by which society profits (internal as well as external benefits can be monetary or non-monetary). These dimensions of usefulness differ in the degree to which they can be quantified. The benefits of education have not been researched as thoroughly as its cost. The more far-reaching welfare effects of further education are especially hard to measure. The evalu…
Positive learning experiences in childhood, adolescence, as well as during employment have a favourable effect on learning in old age. From a gerontological perspective, the significance of school education and of professional qualifications attained later in life for educational behaviour in the post-employment phase can be explained with the continuity theory. To evaluate the relevance of one’s educational biography, a representative survey was conducted. 500 individuals at the age from 50 to…
Until now, the organization-specific proportion in professional development has received little recognition despite its significance for the occupational biographical professionalization of teachers and continuing educators. The book “Organization as Context for Professionalism” was written subsequently to a research and development project, which was aimed at the educational management of continuing educational organization for the professional development of educational employees. The result …
The author pursues the issue whether gender equity has been achieved in continuing educational participation. According to Friebel, this question can only be answered if the life and work contexts are considered as a biographic regulative of the participation in continuing education. The underlying empirical data is based on the longitudinal study »Hamburger Biografie- und Lebenslaufpanel« (HBLP), in which findings about the correlation of gender, parenthood and participation in continuing educ…
