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The author describes and evaluates actual streamings of men’s studies at the background – and as a result – of the history and development of women’s studies. Ursula Müller’s main questions are: How is gender construction defined by men’s studies? Is it critical research in the sense of social criticism and self reflection? Her answer: It depends on the author. The position of Ursula Müller is grounding on the concept of Robert W. Connell’s plaedoyer for taking serious men as a specific social …
A theorist for professional organization and academic research on the one hand and the practical further education specialist on the other hand exchange their views and ideas on the positive and negative effects of a strategic orientation for third-party funds in an interview with „DIE“.
In der Sammlung texte.online findet sich ein breites Spektrum an forschungs- und praxisrelevanten Texten zu Fragen der Erwachsenenbildung. Die hier veröffentlichten Dokumente tragen zu aktuellen Diskussionen bei und spiegeln Tendenzen in den verschiedenen Praxis- und Theoriefeldern der Weiterbildung wider. Das Spektrum der Texte reicht von Tagungsbeiträgen über statistische Auswertungen und Qualifikationsschriften bis hin zu Forschungsberichten. texte.online wird seit 2012 als Dokumentationsser…
„First-party“, „second-party“, „third-party funds“ (p.18-19). The brief article aims at increasing the terminological acuity of the topic focus and distinguishes between the use of the term „third-party funds“ to „first-party“ and „second-party funds“ in the context of research and further education.
In the context of lifelong learning, adults are increasingly being viewed from a biographical perspective. This article takes a look at how differently – and in some cases inconsistently – adults are construed as biographical subjects in education policy, in educational practice, and in research on adult education. It argues that to even begin to examine the processes and practices of biographical subjectification that take place in adult and continuing education, biographical research must be …
The field of education policy, in particular adult education policy, is gaining importance in recent international-comparative research on education and adult education. In comparative politics, education policy is also a young but increasingly established issue. The close connection of education policy to the discipline of comparative politics, as well as theories used in that discipline, provide a well-founded research approach on education policy, which should be considered by international-…
In der älteren Forschung zur Alphabetisierung herrschte eine defizitorientierte Betrachtungsweise der illiteraten einfachen Menschen vor. Sie orientierte sich ausschließlich an der Teilhabe an den schriftlichen literarischen Produkten der Hochkultur.
Eine gute ökonomische Grundbildung kann dazu beitragen, individuelle Problemlagen zu bewältigen und auch gesellschaftliche (Folge-)Kosten zu vermeiden. Vor dem Hintergrund des feststellbaren Bedeutungszuwachses ökonomischer Kenntnisse und Kompetenzen in der Bevölkerung einerseits und der diesbezüglich defizitären Forschungs- und Datenlage andererseits hat das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) eine Forschungswerkstatt zum Thema „Ökonomische Grundbildung für Erwachsene“ (ÖGBE) in…
