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In his presentation, Paul J. Edelson describes the current state of American adult education and refers to historical backgrounds in the process. He examines the "Learning Society" in the age of technology, i.e. the impacts of computers and the internet on education. He also touches on the American further education market and delineates possible ‘pictures’ and approaches to further education.
Popular education is a term which has been used for a considerable time. At the outset, however, it should be pointed out that there are multiple perspectives, but they do not “speak” much to each other. There is a tendency to define popular education in narrow and formulaic terms, according to which tradition one is drawing on. I counter this by discussing four traditions and attempt to distil common features across the multiplicity.
Der österreichische Nationalökonom und Wissenschaftstheoretiker Otto Neurath ist insbesondere durch seine Arbeiten an bildpädagogischen Visualisierungen von Wissen und Wissenschaft bekannt geworden. Sie sind bekannt als Wiener Methode der Bildstatistik bzw. später Isotype („International System of Typographic Picture Education“).
