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This article adopts the PISA study’s staged competence model in the area of football. The authors specify five levels of competency in football literacy to serve as the basis for an adult education curriculum. The motivation for the study is the staging of the World Cup in a country which was the loser in the PISA study: Germany. The general public should be knowledgeable at least when it comes to football.
Construction of reflexive acting in work related learning adult education in the context of the company With the arising of post industrial work relations employment contracts, learning and further education develop to an important factor of success in companies. In an increasingly customer orientated and globalized economy, a reflective work action has become possible and necessary both in view of subject related developments and work environments and structures. This double reflexibility …
Adult education as a profession is neither clearly defined in relation to neighbouring fields nor clearly structured internally. Thus an ambivalent situation is created: on the one hand there are careers on this side and beyond institutionalised adult education. On the other hand the commitment towards a professional purpose seen as pedagogical in a narrow sense begins to crumble. The author refers to a speech by W. Schulenberg from 1969 and shows perspectives for the profession. They aim at a …
Die Frage, was aus der Geschichte für die Zukunft gelernt werden kann bzw. ob eine Beschäftigung mit ihr zukunftsfähige Lernprozesse anregt, wird kontrovers diskutiert. In ihrem Beitrag vertritt Christine Zeuner die Auffassung, dass die Auseinandersetzung mit historischen Ereignissen insbesondere zur Aneignung historischer Kompetenz (Negt, 2010) und zur Entwicklung einer kollektiven Erinnerungskultur (Assmann, 2016) führen kann und die Entfaltung einer kollektiven professionellen Identität bei …
