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Im Oktober 2005 jährt sich die Wiedervereinigung zum fünfzehnten Mal. "Mancher Abschied ist schön" betitelte die Deutsche Evangelische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Erwachsenenbildung (DEAE) im Jahre 1994 ein Buch, das "Perspektiven für politische Bildung nach dem Ende der Blockkonfrontation" entworfen hat. DIE hat das halbrunde Jubiläum zum Anlass genommen, bei den Autorinnen des Buches nachzufragen, wie die damals entwickelten Ideen heute wirken - im doppelten Sinne. Ein Gespräch mit Astrid Messers…
When gender meets didactics… Learning and teaching in context of social constructions This contribution combines didactical and gender-related deliberations and sketches the emphases of the respective discourses. It uses the constructive character of gender in order to take the constructivistically orientated didactics at its word. With the experiences of a model event, didactical steps are presented exemplary which are able to meet the requirements of the special reference between gender a…
The European Union has only a subsidiary educational assignment. Hence ist does not astonish that there are no ordinance and guidelines for the educational area to be found in the joint primary law. Certainly there are primary laws coming out from other political fields which are tangent to education. Essentially the European Union helps itself to soft legislative provision such as decisions concerning support programmes, recommendations, statements or communiques. Within the framework of the m…
Models of subject orientated didactics This contribution has a didactic theoretical perspective. Three didactic theoretical concepts (constructivistical, interaction-related and subject-theoretical) are thereupon questioned, how they substantiate and comprehend subject orientation in didactical action. In the centre are questions of the worth of subjective knowledge stocks and the theoretical substantiation of the relation between teachers and learners. After a criticism of the constructivis…
