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The planning of teaching and learning is a key task for teachers of adult and continuing education. This recurrent challenge demands situational decisions regarding objectives, contents, media and activities of teaching and learning, taking into consideration both the learner as well as organisational and spatial factors. However, empirical research indicates that these complex and interdependent decisions are often tackled insufficiently. Digital planning tools can be used to reduce the comple…
How to relate Natural Sciences to Adult Education Drawing on an intensive debate on the improvement of scientific literacy going on in Germany for more than ten years, this article deals with possible contributions of adult education. Starting with the marginal supply of science courses for adults, I focus on typical didactical arrangements and concepts. Based on an empirical study, exemplary didactical concepts are analysed regarding aims, topics, course type, and audience. The results are…
Voluntary work 2.0? Media-related conditions for voluntary work in the Internet A participation culture has developed in the Internet which is broadly discussed under the rubric of “Web 2.0” and which is explored in this article to determine the principles of voluntary work operating here. To this end the author first forwards a definition of voluntary work in “offline” reality before examining the communications-related conditions prevailing in the Internet upon which a conception of volun…
Development of culinary competencies. »Food Literacy« as a horizontal task for adult education Nourishment relevant theoretical knowledge and practical skills in preparing dishes are more and more decreasing. At the same time the requirements towards the personal feeding competence are increasing: the variety of offers continuously demands decisions and a time budget for nourishment from the consumer – these become smaller in competition to work times and media using times. The contribution i…
The German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) works as a provider of scientific ser vices for both research and practical work in adult and fur ther education, supplying institutions and researchers with statistical data, documents and support. Its strategic position at the interface between theory and practice corresponds with the institutes specific understanding of its own supportive function and distinctive corporate identity: transmitting scientific knowledge to practice and vice versa, p…
Während des Corona-bedingten Lockdowns stellten Einrichtungen der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung ihr Programm, soweit möglich, auf Online-Veranstaltungen um. Welches sind die Erfahrungen mit dieser ad-hoc-Digitalisierung? Die Autorinnen analysieren ihre Eindrücke aus Erfahrungsberichten und Einzelgesprächen.
A video-study of language courses in adult education analyses the transformation of a learning side into a pedagogical space. The definition of pedagogical space is linked to the theory of social space. Space is thus viewed as an arrangement and perception between human beings and social goods. This recasting of social space as a pedagogical space specifies social space to include two additional elements: the representation of knowledge and pedagogical media. For this study, the transformation …
Die Lehrbücher für die Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung bündeln das Wissen der Disziplin und vermitteln Grundlagenkenntnisse für das praktische und wissenschaftliche Handeln. In Aufbau und didaktischer Gestaltung orientieren sich die Bücher an der Hochschullehre und können veranstaltungsbegleitend oder zum Selbststudium genutzt werden: als Einführung in ein Themengebiet, als Repetitorium zur Vorbereitung auf Prüfungen oder als Nachschlagewerk. In jedem Lehrbuch finden sich Impulse zum Weiterdenke…
Zum siebten Mal nach 1973, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1983 und 1994 widmet die Sektion Erwachsenenbildung der DGfE ihre Jahrestagung der Diskussion theoretischer Grundlagen und Bezüge der Erwachsenenbildungswissenschaft. Der Plenumsvortrag von Klaus Prange hat den Titel: Die vielen Erziehungswissenschaften und die eine Pädagogik. Die fünf Arbeitsgruppen beschäftigen sich mit folgenden Themen: Arbeitsgruppe 1: Theoretische Bezüge der Erwachsenenbildung Arbeitsgruppe 2: Theoretische Grundlagen didakt…
