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Decision behaviour in further education, impact on pedagogical consulting competence The author shows, that against the background of accruing research on adult education consultation the relevance of emotions for the decision behaviour of adults is drawn closer into the focus. For this she introduces first partial results of a running research project.
Self-controlling of learning processes – a basic approach of an empirical substanciation In the first part of the contribution a heuristic systematization of the construct of the self-controlling is carried out. Then selected parts of the results of this theme are presented, taken from a representative questioning of the population concerning adult education behaviour and attitudes towards adult education.
Im Rahmen des BMBF-Projekts „EdAge – Bildungsverhalten und -interessen Älterer“ sind das Weiterbildungsverhalten und die Weiterbildungsinteressen der 45- bis 80-Jährigen in einem integrierten Forschungsansatz erhoben worden, der quantitativ-repräsentative und qualitativ-explorative Untersuchungsbausteine verbindet. Damit konnten zahlreiche bislang ungeklärte Fragen beantwortet werden: • Wie stark partizipieren Ältere an Weiterbildung und welche Variablen prägen ihr Bildungsverhalten? • Was …
Die Autorin beschreibt das Projekt 'Wege zum selbstorganisierten Lernen'. Ziel des Projektes ist es, Konzepte für die Umsetzung des Ansatzes der Selbstorganisation in Erwachsenenbildungsprozessen zu entwickeln und zu erproben.
Hedonism and body cult have to be considered as social phenomena. They are an expression of the individualisaton of health behaviour and of the search for wellness. Wellness is connected with sensuality and enjoyment in many people’s minds. Health consciousness is influenced by individual experience. Health learning can incorporate wellness and the experiential dimension in a productive way.
Using the example of the integrated further education of the police of the land Brandenburg this paper examines how a profound measure of reorganisation can be supported by a behaviour oriented further education. Possibilities are being shown of how to achieve the necessary behavioural changes within the larger frame of a reform process with the help of a framework of further education within the organization itself. Changing established patterns of behaviour of adults has proved to be very dif…
Vocational continuing education by gainfully employed persons – the explanatory power of activity-related features for continuing education behaviour Socio-demographic, company and employment data is often used to explain continuing education behaviour of individuals. Even though continuing education needs arise directly in the job context, job-related aspects are less frequently taken into account – not least due to the availability of data. This has been made possible, however, by a repres…
