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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…
Networks of citizens’ commitment – On the role of adult education within the scope of the network work with the older Introduced are the partial results of a research project in North-Rhine-Westphalia, in which networks of citizens’ commitment in Düsseldorf in the area of work with older people have been evaluated. At the beginning of the contribution the term of network is explained, then the personal pre-requisites for citizens’ commitment are sketched and concluding the model of self-orga…
In Germany numerous instruments exist for the documentation of individual activities of lifelong learning in formal, non-formal and informal educational contexts. Under the heading of »education passport« alone there are 48 different activities. A systematical and comprehensive approach to the recording, documentation and evaluation of knowledge, skills and competences is lacking up to now. The authors of the DIE project BIBER plumb the chances for a convergence process, which however faces pro…
Sind Future Skills der Schlüssel für die Zukunft? Die Autorin erläutert die Tradition zukunftsorientierter Kompetenzen und vergleicht unterschiedliche Future-Skills-Modelle. Sie zeigt Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede auf und gibt Impulse, wie Erwachsenenbildung mit diesen Modellen Zukunft aktiv gestalten kann.
Die Frage des Nachweises informell und non-formal erworbener Kompetenzen wird gerade auch im Zuge des Fachkräftemangels diskutiert. Die Autorin zeichnet nach, welche Möglichkeiten digitale Entwicklungen wie Micro-Credentials, Open Badges und Data-Wallets bieten.
Lerntheorien sind eine wichtige Grundlage für alle, die sich professionell mit Lehren auseinandersetzen. In jüngerer Vergangenheit entstanden viele Theorien, die über den Behaviorismus und Kognitivismus hinausweisen und Lernen als menschliche Aktivität in einem sozialen Zusammenhang begreifen. Dadurch eröffnen sich lerntheoretische Bezüge zu Interessen, Gemeinschaften, Gefühlen, Arbeitsplätzen u.a. Auch wird die Vorstellung überwunden, Lernen sei primär für Kinder und Jugendliche bedeutsam. So …
Werden Spiel und Freude in der Erwachsenenbildung ausreichend gewürdigt? Der Autor gibt ein erfahrungsgesättigtes und emphatisches Plädoyer für den durchdachten Einsatz von Spielen – für mehr Spaß und Freude in der Bildung.
So far in the field of continuing education research the management concept is and has been primarily focused. Therefore the research is still centred on directing structures and objective processes. Thus, this article concentrates on leadership, i.?e. the superior’s intended influence on the coordination of organisation members. Based on a contrastive case comparison, it analyses the enhancement of hierarchical and non-hierarchical forms of action coordination triggered by the superior’s leade…
The report covers approaches for research and modeling an orientation to social spaces of educational facilities in synergy with real-world oriented search for education. According to the author, it is based on four central categories: living environments, educational spaces, thematic portals and learning cultures. The analyses of educational participation in social spaces from a meso and macro didactical perspective, based on educational theories, can support the identification of educational …
The article focuses on the characteristics of the virtual seminar form of »online group learning«. The online programme »Marketing for Continuing Educators« , which is part of the correspondence course »Adult Education« by the Distance & Independent Studies Centre at the technical University of Kaiserslautern, indicates the course of seminars of this sort. The role and function of presenting this type of seminar is particularly analyzed. Also, critical issues such as the anonymity of individual…
