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The present findings are based on a programme analysis of one fifth of all programmes provided by public adult education institutions in Low Saxony in 2012. The study focused on field classification as well as on the analysis of participation portals. Over all, eight portals were developed and identified for the analysis. The findings provide information on methods for addressing social requirements and thus differentiating the educational field – how intercultural education undergoes a delta-s…
Was ist Wahrheit? Was sind Fakten? Diesen großen Fragen nähern sich Thomas Philipp im Gespräch und Sigrid Nolda im Stichwort. Ob wir uns schon von Fakten verabschiedet haben und in einem »postfaktischen Zeitalter« leben, lotet Henning Pätzold aus – und zeigt Konsequenzen für die Erwachsenenbildung auf. Eine Konsequenz ist, sich als Lehrender Methoden anzueignen, Fake und Fakt zu unterscheiden (Martin Merkt). Grundsätzlicher kann gefragt werden, was Lehrende von der Wissenschaft erwarten – und w…
Der Bericht erläutert die Ergebnisse einer schriftlichen Befragung von Trainern und Trainerinnen für Frauen in Weiterbildungskursen im Bereich IT und E-Learning sowie einer Befragung von Frauen, die an solchen Kursen in der Tschechischen Republik, in der Slowakischen Republik, in Finnland, Frankreich, Spanien und in Deutschland teilgenommen haben. Er ist im Rahmen des LEONARDO-Projekts „E-Chance for women“ entstanden. Die Befragung hatte sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Erfahrungen der Trainer und Tr…
The form of social integration of space and time determines the understanding of learning, personality and subjectification. In modernity, organizations form individuals through systematic observation. For this purpose, semiotic techniques of dynamization of persons—calculation, measurement, visualization, rechaotisation—are developed and used pedagogically. Their digitization leads to the autonomization of presentational control and management practices, which operate without organizations as …
The competence concept of PISA and IALS New impulses for adult education through international comparative studies In the contribution the literacy concept, which is new to the German education discussion, and some of the results of IALS are presented, whereas parallels but also differences are shown to the PISA study. The causales for the central result of the missing basic competences are questioned, whereas clues are given to contexts between antiquated teaching methods and often lament…
The book presents a variety of concepts and experiences on how the roots and past of organizations can be looked at by employing a number of methodological approaches as well as ways and means to celebrate jubilees of adult education and community learning centers and their associations. It is meant for professionals leading such centers and those who are responsible for public relations, information and communication, and event management. The book starts off by explaining the terminology and …
Learning as a way out of »self-paralysis« In this article learning is understood as an ‘emergence’-like movement in which people put their own patterns of learning into movement. This movement is illustrated using the example of South American businessperson. Special attention is devoted in the article to the learning movement is inhibited by: experiences of the past, recollections and emotions. The key to overcoming this ‘self-paralysis’ is a method of targeted cognitive self-observation w…
The primary objective of guidance and counselling in continuing education and training is its focus on customers by means of changing perspective on their interests and concerns as a key principle for processes, methods and tools. Quality of guidance services is the outcome of well-planned and structured approaches respectively customer-focused guidance procedures. It is also the result of a process in each individual counselling situation and cannot be completely regulated by institutional and…
The B.A./M.A. nonsense. A backtalk The polemic against the university reform begins at its claim of absoluteness and the derivation of a “diploma prohibition” of the Bologna process. The educational politics is being assumed to have introduced the bachelor and master for financial reasons. The author captures 15 theses on the damage, which the university reform brings. Among others: 1. B.A. and M.A. are extending the time of study. 2. The B.A. destroys university places. 3. The B.A. does not q…
