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Begriffsklärungen rund um "Generationenwechsel"
In view of the demographic change the investments in education for elderly population are becoming increasingly more important. At the same time the educational system’s endeavours of repair are rather targeted at the very young. How can the educational investments be divided usefully between the old and the young? By showing examples of Scandinavian countries, the author elucidates a double strategy of high educational investments for the phase of youth and in adult life. The countries have su…
At the present time those people are retiring who became the managers of adult evening classes institions during the education campaign around 1970. The author approaches the future alteration of generations in the top management positions by a comparison of the general conditions. These were better around twenty years ago: larger scopes for development, established role as a hub of culture and educational politics. Today the permanently solidifying work is distinct of innovation requirements a…
In the jargon of the product generations the characteristics of “new” and “old” organizations are identified. In this way the alteration of generations in the organisation of adult education institutions are described. The alteration of generations is performed on three levels, at the organisational comprehension (service provider instead of administrator of offers), at the inner structures (internal flexible making) as well as at changes that overlap institutions in coherence with lifelong lea…
The author gives a summary of accesses of generation overlapping didactics. Thereby he clusters the offers depending on whether one learns from each other, with each other or about each other. Starting from the generation perception the suspicion is trailed that the learning of the generations should be affected in terms of contemporary history and individual biography. Concrete implementation perspectives for intergenerational learning are only then possible, when a pattern is developed for th…
The author from the department of further education in the political administration of the German state Rhineland-Palatinate names the trouble spots of the final report of the Expert Commission on Financing Lifelong Learning, insofar they affect the politics of the states (Laender). He outlines the implementation steps which are aimed at by Rhineland-Palatinate.
Das Lernen am Computer gelingt unterschiedlich gut. Die Beobachtungen aus einem Schulprojekt zeigen, dass offenbar den individuellen Prädispositionen der Lerner eine hohe Bedeutung zukommt. Es gibt im Blick auf mediengestütztes Lernen anscheinend ähnliche „Lernertypen“ wie beim „traditionellen Lernen“. Der Beitrag erzählt von zwei Lernerbiographien; für einen Schüler ist der Computer ein Hindernis, für eine andere Lernerin ist der Rechner eine Chance, insofern er „anonymen und bestärkende Einze…
In the face of accelerated structural change (“transformation society“) in-company further education can no longer just rely on familiar forms of learning and teaching. It must evolve into a form of guidance for personal development, by which managers are directed towards continuous introspection (“culture of reflection”). The author shows that such phenomena can be empirically shown to exist at this moment in time, and outlines in which way they can be seen as pedagogical communication, by way…
