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Further training (FT) is an important element of the modern knowledge economy. Based on expert interviews from four case-study regions, the paper analyses the relevance of markets, hierarchies, and networks as coordination mechanisms in FT, the strategies of providers, and the resulting performance of local FT service systems. We find increasing modularisation and digitalisation of FT services, which enables FT provision in less attractive markets but does not contribute to the value coproducti…
Lebensspuren aus dem DDR-Alltagund ihr Weiterwirken in der Gegenwart zu dokumentieren, war ein Ziel des vom BMBF geförderten DIE-Entwicklungsprojektes „Spurensicherung im Vorruhestand – Sozialintegrative Lerninitiativen in den neuen Bundesländern“. Durch Bildung neue Modell der Sozialintegration im Vorruhestand zu entwickeln, war das andere Ziel. Beide Sichtweisen sind jedoch untrennbar miteinander verbunden: Es geht um Wissen und Methoden der Spurensicherung in der Bildungsarbeit mit älteren …
Was müssen wir noch über den Klimawandel lernen? Oder wissen wir schon längst genug? Was fehlt, um nachhaltig zu leben und den Klimawandel effektiv zu bekämpfen? Welche Rolle kann Bildung spielen? Über diese Fragen sprach Redakteur Jan Rohwerder mit Leonie Bremer, Pressesprecherin von »Fridays for Future« Köln, Dr. Michael Kopatz, Sozialwissenschaftler und Projektleiter Energie-, Verkehrs- und Klimapolitik am Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie, und Hans-Peter Lorenzen, Geschäftsführe…
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…
This article sheds light on cooperation between different educational fields as seen from the point of view of experts in education. The authors present the initial findings from the group discussions of a DFG project which started recently. These findings cast doubt on whether cooperation can succeed when different occupational groups know so little about one another within and outside their educational sectors. It remains to be seen whether future data expected from the project confirms the c…
Natural Sciences as a Constitutive Element of Modern Adult Education Imparting natural scientific knowledge to a socially broad audience was already quite common in manifold forms before adult education as such was really constituted in the last third of the 19th century. Some of the questions raised when natural science spread in the 18th and 19th centuries are still or again relevant in the 21st century. This paper tries to demonstrate that notion in a summarized form on the basis of an ex…
Didactics – more than the art of teaching? The contribution gives an overview of the historical terms of didactics. With the background of changing paradigms, drawn is the entry of the didactical term into adult education and its development since the 1960s. One focus of the consideration is on the didactical change from “teaching“ to “formation of learning contexts”, which was influenced by the discussion on constructivism. Concluding, the author elaborates on the state of research on didac…
Lebenslanges Lernens bedarf der Förderung und einer Supportstruktur, die allen Bevölkerungsteilen den Zugang zu Wissen und Information ermöglicht. In den letzten Jahren haben sich verstärkt auch Bibliotheken als Orte des lebenslangen Lernens profiliert. Dabei arbeiten diese zunehmend mit Weiterbildungseinrichtungen zusammen. Die vorliegende Expertise gibt einen Überblick über die Rolle der Bibliotheken als Lernzentren, beschreibt Kooperations- und Vernetzungsstrukturen mit Weiterbildungseinrich…