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Die Höhere Bauernschule wird in der zeitgenössischen Bezeichnung „Pflanzschule für tüchtige Communevorsteher und Ständedeputierte“ (1841) genannt. Ihr geistiger Begründer war Carl Friedrich Hermann Klenze (1795-1878). Sie war die erste Heimvolkshochschule in Deutschland, bestand jedoch nur bis 1849. Der pädagogische Ansatz der „Pflanzschule“ kann als ein früher Versuch der Integration politisch-allgemeiner und beruflicher Fortbildung gelten.
The article focuses on innovative school architecture used as a source of inspiration for adult educational building projects. Frauke Burgdorff uses the examples of the Orestad College, Geschwister-Scholl Comprehensive School in Lünen, the group of private schools »SBW-Lernhäuser« as well as the Danish Munkegaard Skole to show different responses of architecture to the individual educational concept.
C.Fr.H. Klenze beschrieb im Nachfolgenden „Offenen Brief an die Ständedeputierte“, welcher im Itzehoer Wochenblatt vom 11.09.1840 abgedruckt wurde, Aufbau, Organisationsweise und Unterrichtsinhalte.
This report examines the possible input of higher education institutions for developing the local education landscape. The education landscape in Biberach and the local college serve as an example for creating a regional education landscape in cooperation with public and industrial partners.
Glossar historischer Begriffe zur Erwachsenenbildung
How can continuing education in actual practice really use empirical data on the area of continuing education? The author, a business manager at an adult college special-purpose association, demonstrates in his article the practical potential offered by empirical educational research. The data generated serve as a comparative parameter for local statistics and can help identify and corroborate fields of development. He elucidates this using the examples of milieu marketing and course leader qua…
This article presents results of a national medical impact analysis of relaxation and stress-management courses. The impact on health was examined on 132 persons at 40 adult colleges (VHS) at the beginning and end of courses as well as three months thereafter. The courses attained high levels of satisfaction among the participants and significantly improved health-related quality of life, psychological and physical ailments, and this effect remained three months after the end of the course as w…