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Nach zwei Jahrzehnten bewusster Frauenbildungspraxis ist es Zeit, Bilanz zu ziehen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren diese Bandes beschreiben den Stand von Praxis und Theorie der allgemeinen, politischen und beruflichen Frauenbildung und der Frauenbildungsforschung. Sie gehen aus von der gesellschaftliche Analyse des Geschlechterverhältnisses und fragen u. a. nach der Position von ausländischen Frauen, nach den Konsequenzen der Koedukation oder nach dem Verhältnis zwischen feministischer Epistemologi…
The book deals, for the first time, with the further education and training participation of adults in a systematic and regionally disaggregated fashion. The analyses differentiate not only socio-economic and demographic characteristics, but also regional contexts. Some regions show particularities in further education behavior. Additional case studies in these regions reveal enhancing or impeding regional contexts that have an impact on education chances of adults within regions. These regio…
Wichtige Eigenschaften von Weiterbildungseinrichtungen lassen sich nicht in einfachen Kennzahlen fassen. Vielmehr sind Verteilungen eines Merkmals über seine Ausprägungen (Kategorien) angemessene Beschreibungen. Beispiele dafür sind die Zusammensetzung der Gesamtfinanzierung aus Finanzierungsquellen wie auch die Verteilung des Zeitvolumens von Veranstaltungen auf Programmbereiche. Solche Verteilungen werden hier Profile genannt. Das zentrale Anliegen (Problemstellung) ist die statistische Anal…
The report covers approaches for research and modeling an orientation to social spaces of educational facilities in synergy with real-world oriented search for education. According to the author, it is based on four central categories: living environments, educational spaces, thematic portals and learning cultures. The analyses of educational participation in social spaces from a meso and macro didactical perspective, based on educational theories, can support the identification of educational …
Natural Sciences as a Constitutive Element of Modern Adult Education Imparting natural scientific knowledge to a socially broad audience was already quite common in manifold forms before adult education as such was really constituted in the last third of the 19th century. Some of the questions raised when natural science spread in the 18th and 19th centuries are still or again relevant in the 21st century. This paper tries to demonstrate that notion in a summarized form on the basis of an ex…
Recent international trends in Adult Education (AE) mirror the diverse realities this field is experiencing around the world. This article discusses the trend towards democratization through a revision of existing knowledge in three main domains: theory, research and practice. First, a theoretical framework of democratization as applied in AE will be outlined. Second, recent research developments will be reviewed as they inform the process of democratization through Adult Education which is occ…
Knowledge and experience can be understood as pivotal didactic variables not only in age-based learning environments but also in intergenerational learning cultures. This article focuses these two concepts and analyses them with regard to their function and relevance in intergenerational learning cultures. The theoretical and empirical findings of a triangulative study will support the argument. By presenting a theoretical and practical dichotomy concerning the use of knowledge and experience i…
