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Family is a learning space with special features. Learning processes do not only involve children but also adult family members. Taking the example of the acquisition of media competences, the older generation’s learning processes are analysed based on the qualitative IgelMedia study. With regard to adult education, the author concludes that intra-family learning processes attract attention. The focus should not only be on transferring new knowledge but also on the classification of acquired sk…
God’s people as a learning community Biblical foundations of lifelong learning The article presents the around 2.500 year-old roots of a concept of lifelong (religious) learning which is being developed in the book Deuteronomium of the Hebrew Bibel. Learning is considered an existential self-realization of God’s people which encompasses not only ethics, but also history and constitutional law. With respect to the history of people’s duty to learn in Judaism, the author evaluates perspective…
The scope of literacy courses. Results of a representative survey among adult education centres As part of the EQUALS project, the German Adult Education Association (DVV) collected statistical data on literacy courses at adult education centres; this article presents the data and compares it with figures from 1994. The number of courses has risen, as has the number of participants, but fewer institutions than before provide this service. Compared with 1994, the participants are older and t…
Ob Geburtenrückgang oder »Methusalem-Komplott« der demografische Wandel und die Beziehungen von Jung und Alt sind in der alternden Gesellschaft zum Brennpunktthema geworden. Für die Weiterbildung ergeben sich eine Fülle von Fragen, von denen das Heft Generationenwechsel einige herausgreift (generationenübergreifende Didaktik, generationengerechte Weiterbildungsfinanzierung). Zugleich identifiziert es einen speziellen »Generationenwechsel«, der nur mittelbar mit dem gesamtgesellschaftlichen Pro…
Der eben veröffentlichte Trendbericht zum deutschen Adult Education Survey (AES) hat eine zentrale Botschaft: Die Weiterbildungsbeteiligung ist mit 49 Prozent so hoch wie nie zuvor seit Beginn der Berichterstattung im Jahr 1979. Die erhobenen Zahlen zeigen, dass dieses Rekordniveau vor allem auf den Anstieg der betrieblichen Weiterbildung zurückzuführen ist. Doch wie entwickelte sich die Weiterbildungsbeteiligung außerhalb des betrieblichen Segments? Anhand der Bereiche „Geringqualifizierte“, „…
Research on learning - a retrospective The history of empirical research on adults’ learning reaches back until the twenties of the last century. This contribution evokes some interpretative research on the pedagogy of learning and teaching for adults. It seems that the adult education sciences’ disciplinary memory is underdeveloped as many instructive older analysis seem to have fallen into oblivion. Recent studies mostly don’t pay attention to the linkages and continuity of the questions. …
