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In the form of a review, the author outlines the history of how cooperation has been achieved and imposed in the field of continuing education. He distinguishes between cooperation as an intervention and as an exchange, and between proclamatory, hierarchical and participative cooperation. The structure of the network is presented as way to boost cooperation, and is studied to identify risks and key success factors.
In Retrospect: On the Conception of REPORT and its Development A conversation with the founding editors The reason for this interview is REPORT’s 30-year existence. Thus, the time has come to once again recall the events and experiences in its long history. In 1978, the “Literature and Research Report Continuing Education” was published for the first time and was essentially a review journal created to give an overview of the still widely scattered and developing discipline of adult and con…
Didactics – more than the art of teaching? The contribution gives an overview of the historical terms of didactics. With the background of changing paradigms, drawn is the entry of the didactical term into adult education and its development since the 1960s. One focus of the consideration is on the didactical change from “teaching“ to “formation of learning contexts”, which was influenced by the discussion on constructivism. Concluding, the author elaborates on the state of research on didac…
Lebenserinnerungen, Briefe und Würdigungen zeichnen ein Bild der Persönlichkeiten von Walter Hofmann und Robert von Erdberg und geben Einblick in den Arbeitsalltag zweier Hauptakteure der Neuen Richtung.
Die Erwachsenenbildung der vergangenen vierzig Jahre ist wesentlich von Hans Tietgens, dem ehemaligen Leiter der Pädagogischen Arbeitsstelle des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes, geprägt. Er hat in diesem Zeitraum in zahllosen Veröffentlichungen die grundlegenden und jeweils aktuellen Fragen der Theorie und Praxis der Erwachsenenbildung reflektiert. Dabei hat er seine Auffassung von Erwachsenenbildung und die Sache des von ihm geleiteten Instituts immer wieder auch in Auseinandersetzung mit d…
Ein Längsschnitt durch die Geschichte der Weiterbildungsfinanzierung.
Professionalization in adult education and the memory culture The discussion of the adult education and its history opens for a closer look at the process of its professionalization. The position of the temporal delimitation and the focusing on the contents come into focus. It turns out that the history of woman education is not represented explicitly in textbooks on the history of the adult education. Focussing on historical factual knowledge and experience knowledge, the analysis of memor…
