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Since Francis Bacon, the concept of knowledge has been related to the question of power. In the beginning, this interrelation was applied to scientific knowledge, nature and its controllability. Since the era of enlightenment this problem has been applied to questions of social power. Marxist theoreticians then exposed the emergence and distributions of and the access to knowledge as related to the class struggle. Finally, it was Foucault who opens up for a new and experimental perspective.
Knowledge and experience can be understood as pivotal didactic variables not only in age-based learning environments but also in intergenerational learning cultures. This article focuses these two concepts and analyses them with regard to their function and relevance in intergenerational learning cultures. The theoretical and empirical findings of a triangulative study will support the argument. By presenting a theoretical and practical dichotomy concerning the use of knowledge and experience i…
In aktuellen Diskussionen um Wissen, um dessen Genese und Bedeutung werden kulturtheoretische Aspekte ebenso wie Fragen des Zugangs zum Wissen oder einer Technokratisierung der Gesellschaft verhandelt. Die Erwachsenenbildung beteiligt sich an diesem Diskurs und bringt dabei ihr klassisches Verständnis von Wissen ein, das sie als Grundkategorie von Bildung und Lernen versteht. Dieses Heft untersucht Wissen im Spannungsfeld von Potenzial und Macht und diskutiert Fragen des Nutzens, der Instrument…
In the future it should be possible for educationally qualified applicants to be able to attend a university without university-entrance certificates acquired in a secondary school. This is meant to help ease the looming shortage of skilled labour in Germany. Facilities in the area of adult education are also to help facilitate the transition to a school of higher learning. The authors of this article report on a promising approach along these lines – the Lower Saxony model project »Open Univer…
This article, which emanates from the KLASSIC project funded by the Federal German Ministry for Education and Research, explores whether the conveyance of metacognitive techniques effectively boost confidence in one’s own learning effort, thus helping escape the vicious cycle of expectations of failure and failure itself (in this case: older adults in everyday settings void of problems). The empirical study shows that tools such as self-surveys, paired problem-solving, learning diaries or portf…
A sectoral educational training framework for continuing education can become a uniform reference point for continuing education. Projects such as Flexi-Path, QF2TEACH or the study »Key competences for adult learning professionals« fit together like pieces of a puzzle to form a larger strategy. The authors view the advantages of a sectoral educational training framework to be found in the fact that an SCEF-CE is closer to the continuing education system than general educational training framewo…
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.
Nach der Veröffentlichung eines Entwurfs für den Deutschen Qualifikationsrahmen (DQR) im November 2010 befindet sich die Diskussion in einer kritischen Phase. Die Weiterbildung findet zunehmend Interesse am Thema und hat Einflussmöglichkeiten erschlossen. Aber ihr bleibt nicht viel Zeit, in der DQR-Diskussion Position zu beziehen. Ihre Optionen im bildungspolitischen Machtspiel müssen offengelegt und reflektiert werden. Hierzu leistet das Heft einen wichtigen Beitrag. Im Rahmen einer Umfrage b…
