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Teaching is fun. But teaching and learning situations bear the potential for conflict. With this book, the author elaborates on potential catalysts for conflict and provides strategies to professionally cope with these situations. While presenting best practice examples, he ponders alternative courses of action and delivers help for confident and competent teaching. The author also conveys concise background information on group processes. Because of its practical relevance, the book is not onl…
Teachers and trainers can only act on what they notice. In line with use-inspired basic research, the question pursued in this book is how teachers’ and trainers’ competence to perceive, analyze, and diagnose situations of learning and instruction can be enhanced resulting in long-term effects. The present state of research with regard to adult education science’s professionalization discourse, teacher education research, competence as well as expertise research is drawn upon in order to gain a…
Successful communication – i.e. reaching an understanding between speaker and listener – depends on the content and its format, the personality of the speaker, but also on the form and presentation of the content. Especially in situations of learning and teaching, the voice of the speaker plays an important role in the presentation of the content of teaching and learning. Some ways of speaking may render unwanted effects and may be seen as distracting. It is important to note, however, that all…
The atmosphere of adult pedagogy (Re-) discovery of a central didactical category Even though every teacher would give the pedagogical atmosphere a central meaning for the progression of the learning activity, the marginal theoretical capture of this phenomenon in adult pedagogic is astonishing. A look over the edge of a plate makes it clear, that general pedagogy, philosophy and psychology has already come to interesting cognitions. Against this background, the aim of the contribution is …
On the mediation difficulty of social competence in adult education/further and continuing education Problems are presented which can emerge in seminars for adults when mediating social competence. Called on are for this the results of a research work of the author on the topic of advanced vocational training in societal situations of upheaval.
Die Magisterarbeit untersucht die Anwendung von computergestützten, via Computernetz zur Verfügung gestellten und automatisch ausgewerteten Prüfungen in der beruflichen Weiterbildung. Sie spielen eine bedeutende Rolle als integrierte Prüfungen im Online-Lernen und bei Zertifizierungsprüfungen in der Informationstechnologie-Branche. In einem zweiten Schritt analysiert die Autorin Ansatzpunkte für mögliche zukünftige Entwicklungen. Grundlage ist eine zweistufige, schriftliche Delphistudie, die b…
Katja Gruber befasst sich in ihrer Diplomarbeit mit dem Thema ‚Schlüsselqualifikationen’, der in den 1970er Jahren geprägt wurde und unter dem derzeit bis zu 600 verschiedene Begriffe subsumiert werden. Die Autorin untersucht nicht nur, warum der Begriff bei allen Sozialpartnern heute wieder in der Diskussion ist und als ‚konsensstiftender Slogan’ erscheint, der es ermöglicht bisher gegensätzliche Positionen von ökonomischen Interessen und Persönlichkeitsbildung in einem neuen ‚Konzept’ zu vere…
