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This article focuses on continuing education for adults with a migrational background in Germany. Based on recent research findings, the authors call for a differentiated view on adults with a migrational background and point out prospects for research and practice.
Adult education and historiography The paper aims to explore the role and function of the historical issues within the field of Adult Education and its relations to scholarly historiography to date. Quite similar to the traditional paradigm in the history of education was the history of adult education for a long time also primarily based on pedagogical considerations. Thus research received almost no attention neither from historiography nor from educational science. Despite the current boo…
Decision behaviour in further education, impact on pedagogical consulting competence The author shows, that against the background of accruing research on adult education consultation the relevance of emotions for the decision behaviour of adults is drawn closer into the focus. For this she introduces first partial results of a running research project.
In dem Band finden sich die wichtigsten Studien und Gutachten zur Weiterbildung, die im letzten Jahrzehnt einzelner (Bundes-) Länder und Regionen vorgelegt worden sind: Schweiz, Hessen, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen, Nordrhein-Westfalen und Braunschweig, Frankfurt, Freiburg. Bei den Systemevaluationen handelt es sich nicht nur um die "reine" Forschung, sondern auch um Gewinnung und Bewertung von Informationen zum Zwecke der Optimierung oder Revision. Die Lektüre und Analyse der hier vorgestellten …
Mit der Reihe „DIE Analysen für Erwachsenenbildung“ werden wichtige Ergebnisse aus der Erforschung der Realität von Erwachsenenbildung einer größeren Fachöffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht. Die Bände dieser Reihe geben Einblicke in bislang weniger bekannte Felder der Erwachsenenbildung: in Überlegungen und Mentalitäten von Planenden, Lehrenden und Lernenden sowie in den konkreten Ablauf von Bildungsveranstaltungen. Gleichzeitig werden mit der Darstellung gelungener Anwendungen bekannter und neue…
Numeracy practices are always dependent on the social context in which they emerge. These contexts, however, are unstable because of a range of technological and socio-political changes. How does this instability affect people’s agency in the world? After reviewing key approaches to numeracy practices research, we distil key findings from recent numeracy studies. We introduce the concept of the numerate environment to examine the context in which opportunities, supports and demands present them…
The Need for Comparative Research on the History of Adult Education and its Challenges Research on the history of adult education has been established as a sub-discipline of adult educational science – however, mainly in a national context. Even nowadays comparative research on the history of adult education is still a step-child of research, facing major challenges which are consequently also problems of presentation.
