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Parent and child programmes are the most frequently offered programmes in family education. The intergenerational experiment of education and lifelong learning has proven its worth in adult and family education and may be regarded as a counter weight to the »expertisation« during the early childhood.
Educational training frameworks constitute an intervention in the context of strategies of the European Space for Lifelong Learning. It poses critical questions regarding the consistency of initiatives seeking to create transparency of activities, skills and qualifications in different fields of policy independently of one another.
The textbook provides an introduction to the field of education of older adults and lifelong learning. Coming from an interdisciplinary field of research related to ageing, learning abilities and learning needs of older adults are discussed. Additionally, adequate forms of learning and educational arrangements are presented. A special focus lies upon the correlation between competencies and age, taking into account diverse living conditions and biographies. Thus, the textbook offers impulses to…
Das Verhältnis von Theorie und Praxis ist spannungsvoll. Aus Sicht der in der Erwachsenenbildung Tätigen erscheinen Theorien häufig unbrauchbar, weil sie zu abstrakt und praxisfern wirken. Hier baut der Studientext eine Brücke. Der Autor zeigt in seiner vollständig aktualisierten und erweiterten 3. Auflage verschiedene in der Erwachsenenbildung gängige Theorieansätze auf, verortet sie hinsichtlich Herkunft und Reichweite und verweist auf ihre Bedeutung für die Planung und Gestaltung von Bildun…
