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The author presents examples of good practice and defines central tasks and processes of modern libraries, which are regarded as central learning spaces for adults. Using the criteria »shortage – surplus«, »consumption – co-creation« and »product – process«, the relevant social challenges for libraries and adult education are described. It becomes evident that libraries and adult education are in a period of transition, which requires suitable architectural solutions.
Tangled up in learning stories On the basis of the film „Entre of les Murs“ of Laurent Cantet education processes are described as integral aspects of the subjective relationship to the life-world of humans. The consequences for adult education are to generate more exact and up-to-date knowledge about the achievements of the subjects, in which they transform the social requirements into their own learning projects.
Empirically based on interviews, the article gets to the bottom of how independent travelers address their educational experiences. Visitors of the Dogon people in Mali are confronted with an inaccessible unfamiliarity, whereas voyagers to Ladakh are irritated by the prevalent differences inducing the reflection of their individual experiences. Educational qualities can be attributed to both forms of experience.
Was leisten virtuelle Welten für das Lehren/Lernen? Chancen und Grenzen virtueller Bildung und Vorausschau auf mögliche zukünftige Entwicklungen für die Erwachsenenbildung sind die Themen dieses Heftes. Der Medienphilosoph Sandbothe erläutert im DIE-Gespräch das zukünftige Verhältnis von virtuellen und realen Welten. Daran schließen sich Fragen an wie: Wozu ist Virtualität gut (Thiedecke)? Was sind die Ergebnisse lernpsychologischer Forschung hinsichtlich virtueller Lernumgebungen (Reimann) und…
Diese Ausgabe des REPORT enthält Beiträge zum Verhältnis von Medien und Erwachsenenbildung, zu biographischen und generationsspezifischen Aspekten von Mediennutzung sowie zur Mediennutzung innerhalb und außerhalb von Bildungswelten. Fragen zur Veränderung der gesellschaftlichen Funktion von Bildung durch das Aufkommen der neuen Medien werden näher beleuchtet wie auch Fragen zu neu zu entwickelnden didaktischen Verfahren und zu Veränderungen der Wahrnehmungs-, Lern- und Motivationsstrukturen der…
Adult education is also stamped by linear legends, including its implicit models of biography. These are, as shall be shown in the first section of this consideration, concepts of a setting-out-biography. They oversee the aspect of life coming to an end. For that reason adult education often just shows half of the picture of an adult. The adult appears as a timeless entity, being in principle open for development. His “Unteachableness” is not really seen as a result of the structural rigidity o…
The "unreigned" subject Learning in adult education In adult education – but not only this profession - humanistic psychology, chaos theory, constructivism, modernisation theory are, among others, in many cases normatively charged. Thus they are no longer theories for explanation but instructions for the design of social reality, namely of further education. In contrast to this the author here is interested in the system of relations, in which the subjects are interwoven when they enter a …
