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Cognition, emotion and mental self-regulation: on the nascency and solution of inner conflicts The contribution provides a short overview of several results on nascency and solution of inner conflicts which in the frame of a research programme on mental self-regulation in learning processes of adults were gained. The author was head of the project and she draws practical conclusions for adult education.
Within the framework of the PISA discussion, adult education must discover the parents as an affected part of the public more than has as yet been the case. Parents need scientifically founded summary knowledge as a basis for decision-making (for example concerning the educational orientation of their children), and professional guidance in matters of the enhancement of learning capacity at an early age.
In today’s societies literacy is regarded as the prerequisite for participating in the professional and private spheres of everyday life. It is regarded as a human right, a tool for personal empowerment and a tool to influence the behaviour of individuals, families and communities. Despite the international consensus that literacy skills determine opportunities and provide access to today’s information-based societies, many adults in both industrialized and developing countries find themselves …
This article addresses teaching and learning of movements, in particular by exploring the following points: »orientation towards sense and meaning«, »making differences possible«, »orientation towards effect«, »forming notions of movement«, »making experiences possible«, »situational setting« and »learning through movement tasks«. In sum, overarching principles are deduced for a didactically oriented movement theory which is equally instructive for scholars as well as persons working in the fie…
This article adopts the PISA study’s staged competence model in the area of football. The authors specify five levels of competency in football literacy to serve as the basis for an adult education curriculum. The motivation for the study is the staging of the World Cup in a country which was the loser in the PISA study: Germany. The general public should be knowledgeable at least when it comes to football.
The article describes reasons, targets, elements and areas of applications of the concept of gender democratic didactics in adult education. The author investigates prepositions and consequences to pedagogical acting, methodical structuring and basic conditions of educational processes. Finally the concept of gender democratic didactics must not stop in front of the institutional structures. Gender perspective should become part of quality management and organisational and personal development …
Wie können Medien sinnvoll Lehr- und Lernprozesse unterstützen? Die Autoren geben einen kompakten Überblick von den ersten mediendidaktischen Ansätzen bis zu gegenwärtigen Trends des E-Learning und Mobile Learning. Behandelt werden - kontextunabhängig und grundlegend - die Funktionen von Medien sowie die didaktischen Methoden für einen lernerfolgsversprechenden Einsatz von Medien. Der Studientext geht insbesondere auf Potenziale ein, die digitale Medien für Lehr- und Lernprozesse Erwachsener bi…
Das DIALOG-Praxisnetzwerk für Wissenstransfer und Innovation des Deutschen Instituts für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE) fördert den Austausch zwischen Forschung und Praxis im Feld der Erwachsenenbildung. Das Jahresthema 2023 des Netzwerks, das aus 34 Mitgliedsorganisationen aus allen Bereichen der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung besteht, war die Rolle der Weiterbildung im Kampf gegen den Fachkräftemangel. Auf dem 7. DIALOG-Netzwerktreffen am 8. September 2023 fand eine Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema stat…
