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Begriffklärungen rund um das Thema „Lernende Regionen“.
Since the formation of regional entities in the modern age, the concept of „region“ has been interpreted in different ways. While in the after-war years attempts at strengthening structurally weak regions by attracting industry from without (the „exogenous“ strategy) were successful, nowadays the „endogenous“ strategy is becoming relevant, which builds on efforts from within the region. The author maintains that the success of „learning“ regions will depend on the efficiency of the regions’ edu…
Woran liegt es, dass Online-Lernen bislang noch auf wenig Akzeptanz stößt? Apel zeigt an Beispielen, dass Online-Lernen vor allem größere Anforderungen an Selbststeuerung und Lerner-Aktivität stellt.
The role of regions is changing, as there is an increased tendency towards economic competition amongst them. Networking promises to provide competitive advantages. However, attempts at establishing and successfully employing networks both in the sector of private economy and in the public/communal sector meet with various problems and, notwithstanding their potential, will rather be able to provide solutions where a consensus seems realistic, whereas conflictive processes will continue to requ…
From 2002 on the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will be sponsoring 80 regional networks in the context of the „Learning Regions – promotion of networks“ programme. This programme will be scientifically monitored by a consortium formed by the German Institute of Adult Education (DIE), the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW), and the universities of Duisburg and Munich. The author will be in charge of the overall scientific supervision. In his article he pres…
Ausgehend von der unterschiedlichen Rolle von Regionen in europäischen Staaten stellt Paolo Federighi die Frage nach dem Zusammenhang von Regionen und Demokratie, von Regionen und Nationalstaat sowie nach der Rolle der Region für die Bildungs- und Entwicklungschancen der Menschen. Lokales Denken, regionale Politik und globale Sicht sind für ihn eine Einheit. Aufgabe der Regionen ist es, die Lebensbedingungen für die Menschen in Richtung auf mehr Kultur und Bildung zu entwickeln sowie eine Poli…
Teaching and learning situations are only super ficially described as transfer of knowledge. Beneath that surface complex processes of understanding influence the teacher-learner as well as the learner-learner interaction. Learners bring previous knowledge, experiences and attitudes into the classroom which may facilitate but also inhibit learning; they are not usually invited to express their beliefs, doubts and expectations and make them part of their individual learning prcoesses. The author…
The author starts out from a review of the relationship between language didactics and other fields of research giving inspiration to it (learning psychology, linguistics, second language acquisition research, anthropology), exploring whether constructivism might be one of these fields. He criticizes that in order to explain constructivist perspectives on learning, constructivists tend to use „instructionalism“ as a background against which to position their own ideas, „instructionalism“, howev…
