The EMAE-Project

In 2004, seven European universities embarked on a project to develop a European Master’s Programme in Adult Education (EMAE). The German Institute for Adult Education followed the project closely as an external evaluator. The consortium developed a curriculum consisting of a common core (70 ECTS) and of university specific courses (50 ECTS). The idea is to offer the whole programme in most of the participating universities. Both the content and the delivery modes of the programme are character…

Weiterbildungsverhalten in Deutschland

In a representative survey in 2012 the German edition of the Adult Education Survey (AES) collected data relating to the professional development behaviour and the structure of the professional development market in Germany. This final report analyses and comments on the collated data under the consideration of key questions: Who participates why, how often and how long in professional development and who does not? Which professional development provisions are popular? How is the target group o…

Literalität, Grundbildung oder Lesekompetenz? Beiträge zu einer Theorie-Praxis-Diskussion

Internationale Erwachsenenbildung im Überblick

Wilhelm Rein, Founding Father of Adult Education at the University of Jena

The history of the UNESCO international conferences on adult education - from Helsingör (1949) to Hamburg (1997)

Learning Democracy

Umerziehung in der Britischen Zone 1945 - 1949

A Field of Research an Study

»Theoretisch wie methodisch anspruchsvoll«