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Demokratische Gesellschaften und auch die Demokratie selbst stehen zunehmend vor Herausforderungen. Die Autoren zeigen auf, warum der Arbeitsplatz als Sozialraum und Lernort für die politische Bildung an Bedeutung gewinnt, welche Chancen sich bieten und über welche Fragen diskutiert werden muss.
The “European Master in Adult Education“. Transnational courses of study as the fruit of the Bologna process Proceeding from the documents of the Bologna process, the contribution directs its gaze at the European dimension in study programmes at European universities. In the area of adult education a joint study programme of eight universities and the German Institute for Adult Education has a pioneering role. The “European Master in Adult Education“ (EMAE), developed in the context of an Era…
Aktuelle Aspekte und Trends von Internationalisierung der Erwachsenenbildung werden in den Beiträgen und im DIE-Gespräch zum Heftthema beleuchtet: Agnieszka Bron beschreibt Internationale Erwachsenenbildung als Wissenschaftsdisiplin, Peter Jarvis skizziert Vor- und Nachteile des internationalen Lern- und Wissensmarktes im Zeichen neuer Technologien ein, Sergio Haddad schildert Themen, Schwerpunkte und die Auswirkungen von Globalisierung auf die Erwachsenenbildung in Lateinamerika, Carolyn Meder…
Adult education centers (“Volkshochschulen”) realize their educational mission nationwide, in a wide range of educational topics and for all citizens. In order to foster equal participation opportunities for all population groups, they face the challenge of adapting their work to social developments. Organizational approaches such as diversity management and intercultural opening provide a framework that considers different levels of continuing education work and discusses their contribution to…
So far, time and space have been addressed in separate discourses without considering the connections between the categories. An integrative perspective on the regulation of participation in further education promise social space perspective. Against the background of the demand for the interweaving of discourses of time and space, the paper deals with the question of which temporal relationships can be found in social space regulators of participation in further education. First of all, the ca…
