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The author discusses options for resolving conflicts based on the two most frequent types of conflict: aggression against seminar leaders and participants expressed by inappropriate conduct. He introduces constructive behaviour in conflicts and describes second order conflict solutions.
Der Autor plädiert angesichts der Präsenz offener und verdeckter Konflikte in der Erwachsenenbildung(-sarbeit) dafür, Konflikte wieder zum Gegenstand der Erwachsenenbildungsdiskussion zu machen. Er zeigt verschiedene Konfliktkonstellationen dieses Feldes auf und beschreibt am Beispiel der politischen Erwachsenenbildung die Relevanz vom »Konflikt« als didaktische Kategorie.
Based on the PIAAC findings, the authors certify international competitiveness to the German educational system and refute the reproach of insufficient training maturity of German trainees. At the same time, they criticise the recruitment practise in businesses, which is marked by an increasing academisation and exclusion of certain applicant groups
The article provides an overview of the constellation of stakeholders in health education. It focuses on the publicly funded section and its current challenges such as the participants' age pattern, as well as the range of services and the relating quality standards.
Following Piaget and recent research on psychodynamics, the author establishes theses on distinctively suitable adult learning. She recapitulates essential theses from her book »Zur Konstruktion des Erwachsenen« (On the Structure of Adults) and refines them with regard to autonomy as a learning incentive. The author believes that learning processes, which are characteristic for adults, occur mainly when old structures are overcome and learning procedures are modified. The learning incentive is…
