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Teaching is fun. But teaching and learning situations bear the potential for conflict. With this book, the author elaborates on potential catalysts for conflict and provides strategies to professionally cope with these situations. While presenting best practice examples, he ponders alternative courses of action and delivers help for confident and competent teaching. The author also conveys concise background information on group processes. Because of its practical relevance, the book is not onl…
Intergenerational learning can be considered as a chance for institutions of adult education. Besides explicitly planned courses for different generations, intergenerational learning opportunities also take place incidentally in the educational work in seminars and courses, when the participants belong to different age groups. In both cases, the question arises how to arrange those courses didactically in order to support intergenerational learning processes. Based on systematic considerations …
Beamerfolien, Powerpointpräsentationen, Flipcharts, Collagen, Mindmaps - um Lerninhalte zu visualisieren, gibt es eine Vielzahl von Möglichkeiten. Der lernfördernde Einsatz solcher Methoden setzt jedoch die Kenntnis kontextuell angemessener Einsatzmöglichkeiten und gelungener Gestaltung voraus. Der Praxisband erklärt, wann welche Visualisierungsmöglichkeiten - besonders in der Weiterbildung - lernförderlich sein können. Neben didaktischen Grundprinzipien und dem Rollenverständnis von Lehrenden…
Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, welche Wirkung und Auswirkung Kommunikation im Lernprozess von Erwachsenen hat. Dabei wird auf vor allem auf erwachsenenpädagogische Methoden eingegangen.
Case-reconstructive quality circles have hardly ever been tried out in adult education. Under the direction of trainers, course teachers reflect the quality of their work in a mutual process. Their own teaching/learning situation serves as illustrative material. It is self-evident that this method relies on mutuality and must be voluntary. The method, which is explained with the aid of a practice example from the KVHS Northeim, has its origins in health care.
Teachers and trainers can only act on what they notice. In line with use-inspired basic research, the question pursued in this book is how teachers’ and trainers’ competence to perceive, analyze, and diagnose situations of learning and instruction can be enhanced resulting in long-term effects. The present state of research with regard to adult education science’s professionalization discourse, teacher education research, competence as well as expertise research is drawn upon in order to gain a…