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Taking demographical development as a starting point, Turek identifies functions of political education. It should help to avoid the »clash of generations «. Demographical change, however, is only one of several trends: the change from modern industrial society towards a transnational technological society calls for a new »contract across generations«. Political education initialises a future-oriented selfremodelling of society and thus becomes an investment into its human resource…
Learning a language is an indispensable prerequisite for participating in both public and working life. Adult education, also in Germany, is currently facing a great challenge in the area of language teaching: In addition to language teaching for migrants and refugees, a key problem is the alphabetization of German and non-German speaking functional illiterates. This paper looks at the conditions for successful language learning by the adults here in focus in organized teaching and learning set…
Die vorliegende Arbeit versteht sich als Beitrag zur Professionalisierungsdebatte in der Erwachsenenbildung. Sie bringt auf der Basis einer empirischen Untersuchung im Bereich Kulturelle Bildung an der Volkshochschule neue Aspekte in die Betrachtung der freiberuflichen MitarbeiterInnen ein. In bewußter Abkehr von der vorherrschenden normativen Perspektive ist der Ausgangspunkt hier die zunächst grundsätzliche Anerkennung der unterrichtlichen Handlungskompetenz von KursleiterInnen. Diese Kompete…
This article is devoted to workplace learning. Rather than formulating normative claims regarding educational processes, the aim is to empirically examine the conditions under which workplace learning takes place. The focus is on the process of needs assessment as part of program planning. Firstly, this process and the stakeholders involved are described for different types of programs. Secondly, an explorative analysis based on the contextual analysis shows how demand decisions are justified. …
