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The rising importance of continuing education in the knowledge-based society is undisputed, but the broad organisational and legal area of continuing education has not been surveyed adequately to date in statistical terms. This article provides an overview of the heterogeneous landscape of providers and explains the existing data situation. Following this, the problems associated with a separation between providers of vocational from general education are discussed. Finally, the current changes…
Education for elderly people has continuously increased in significance against the background of demographic developments. Primarily the group of the “young old“ has been in the centre of scientific exploration and practical educational work. For a long time the theme old age has been shielded. The author shows development lines and blind spots of old age research and old age education and pleads for a re-orientation of the educational approach in the context of relatives care. Thereby she foc…
Participation in adult education and learning motivation In this introductory contribution firstly the history of the educational sociology of research in adult in Germany is reconstructed in keywords. The current discussion on social exclusion/inclusion is scetched here and further deepened in the following contributions of this book. In the final chapter of this contribution the results of an educational biographical study are presented. Here nine types of participation in adult education …
In dem Beitrag werden zwei mündlich erzählte Lebensgeschichten von Protagonisten der hessischen Erwachsenenbildung nach 1945 auf dem Hintergrund von zwei erkenntnisleitenden Fragestellungen vorgestellt: 1) wie aus der Sicht der qualitativen Bildungsforschung demokratisch-staatsbürgerliches Handeln von Erwachsenenpädagogen identifiziert werden kann, und 2) wie mit Hilfe biographischer Quellen die aktive Seite dieses Tuns besser in den Blick kommt. Zum Abschluss ¤werden die beiden Lebensgesc…
In diesem Essay wird die Konjunktur der Evaluation als zentrales Mass von Bildungsmanagement und Qualitätssicherung kritisch hinterfragt und verschiedene Evaluationstypen unterschieden. Danach gibt es: "Systemevaluation zum Zweck von Spar-, Abbau oder Umbaumassnahmen; immanenten Evaluation und Forschung zum Zwecke der Steuerung pädagogischen Handelns: Evaluation zu Legitimationszwecken, Evaluation in betrieblichen Transferprozessen zur Begleitung und Sicherung von Bildungsverwertung." Gege…
This article starts from the premise that an academic discipline directed at practice has to question, within which terms its research results become useful beyond science. For empirical research, the authors put forward the idea of use-inspired basic research. This approach might be a helpful orientation due to (further) educational science’s double challenge to simultaneously prove academic productivity and practical as well as societal usefulness. By reference to points of decision regularly…
Die im Januar 2001 im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung vom DIE durchgeführte, interdisziplinär angelegte Expertentagung „Forschung zur Erwachsenenbildung“ hatte sich zum Ziel gesetzt, Forschungsdesiderate auszuloten und konkrete Vorschläge für künftige Forschungsvorhaben zu erarbeiten. Inhaltlich knüpfte sie an das „Forschungsmemorandum für die Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung“ an, das bezogen auf die Forschungsfelder „Lernen Erwachsener“, „Wissensstrukturen und Kompetenzb…
The German Society for Promotion of Research at Old Age (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Forschung im Alter – DGFFA) wants to give an impulse for the intensification of the discussion on those aspects of the demographic change, to which the universities/colleges would need to devote themselves to in due time, if they strive to consolidate their future viability in a society of lifelong learning. The presented suggestions in this contribution are components of a position paper that a wor…
