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In her dissertation, the author collected and evaluated self-assessments of language study travellers travelling with Carl Duisburg Centres. 90 participants were questioned quantitatively. In addition to the expected competence improvement of foreign languages, the flexibility and mobility as well as intercultural competences were increased. The competence acquisition in connection to the participants’ individual ages was investigated in a supplementary qualitative research.
Die systematisch zueinander in Beziehung stehende zweibändige Projektpublikation ist um die Neubegründung einer lebensweltbezogenen, nicht aber funktionalistisch verengten Altersbildung bemüht. Die autonome Alltagsbewältigung Älterer zu fördern, reicht unter Bedingungen eines individualisierten Alters nicht mehr aus; sie muß um sozialintegrative Bildungskonzepte und Lernformen ergänzt werden. Während der 1. Band das für die Ansprache von Zielgruppen und für die Programmplanung relevante Grundla…
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Family is a learning space with special features. Learning processes do not only involve children but also adult family members. Taking the example of the acquisition of media competences, the older generation’s learning processes are analysed based on the qualitative IgelMedia study. With regard to adult education, the author concludes that intra-family learning processes attract attention. The focus should not only be on transferring new knowledge but also on the classification of acquired sk…
