"Kenntnisse in dem Gebiet der Weltweisheit erwerben"

Perspektive Praxis

The "Green Series" introduces reliable knowledge, current topics and didactic methods, which were tested in other fields, to adult education specialists. All volumes are designed from the action perspective, convey application-oriented formulas, and set standards based on the state of research, They contribute to competence and quality development in practical adult education.

Rahmenbedingungen, Datenlage und Erkenntnisse zum Weiterbildungspersonal im Vergleich

Despite a relatively similar education system, the way how people can get a qualification for adult and continuing education is different in Germany and Switzerland. Germany has established an academic track within educational sciences with the focus on planning and management. Switzerland follows a vocational track with a basic qualification for teaching adults that could be extended by qualifications within the vocational system for positions in planning and management. This paper analyses th…

Methodische Innovationen durch neue Nutzungen und Kombinationen einer alten Methode. Das Beispiel der Programmanalyse

Program analyses are considered as genuine methods of research in further education. The basic understanding is that innovation is not only an invention of new methods, but also an implementation of existing methods in new ways. The most important approaches of program analysis will be presented and discussed concerning their alteration. This is also relevant for qualitative research in further education in general.

Ansätze bildwissenschaftlicher Erwachsenenbildungsforschung. Anwendungsgebiete und Methoden

In the usually clearly word- and text-oriented research field of adult education, for a while now, approaches have been observed, which understand visual presentations as data to be analyzed in a methodically controlled way. These data are used in order to generate and substantiate knowledge about adult education, whereby intensity, contexts, theoretical background and methods or methodology are different. This article presents these approaches in the research fields focusing on students, progr…

Die Kategorie ""subjektive Lernbegründung" als Beitrag zur empirischen Differenzierung der Vermittlungs- und Lernerperspektive mit Blick auf das Forschungsmemorandum für die Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung.

Lebenslange Bildungsprozesse im Kontext von Einrichtungen der Erwachsenenbildung

Erwachsenenbildung für die Migrationsgesellschaft

Fallstudien

Case studies The contribution describes principles and possible yields for the implementation of case studies in the area of adult education. The research practical implementation itself is deliniated with an example from a research project from the area of learning research. Amplified are especially the central phases of the approach to the research field and the interpretation work.

Freiwilliges Engagement

The development of modern societies depends on a wide variety of an individual’s social commitment beyond gainful employment that can be subsumed under the term “volunteering”. Analysing empirical interviews, this article outlines the range and the transition of subjective educational biographic meanings of volunteering from the perspective of the volunteers. Thereby the appropriateness of qualitative longitudinal studies for specific research-purposes of long-term educational biographic change…