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In Retrospect: On the Conception of REPORT and its Development A conversation with the founding editors The reason for this interview is REPORT’s 30-year existence. Thus, the time has come to once again recall the events and experiences in its long history. In 1978, the “Literature and Research Report Continuing Education” was published for the first time and was essentially a review journal created to give an overview of the still widely scattered and developing discipline of adult and con…
"Bildung ist, wenn Wissenschaft mehr als Wissen schafft." (E. Nuissl) Wie wird die Wissensgesellschaft zu einer gebildeten Gesellschaft, und welchen Beitrag leisten hierzu die Wissenschaften? Welche "Öffentlichkeitskompetenz" muss sich dafür die Wissenschaft zu Eigen machen und welche "Wissenschaftskompetenz" muss die Gesellschaft entwickeln? Der Kongress "Bildung durch Wissenschaft" (München, Februar 2002), der in diesem Band dokumentiert wird, lotet aus, wie sich Wissenschaft und Gesellscha…
Changing the focus on Natural Sciences At present, public debates postulate more attention to natural sciences in the education sector. First, we will examine the precarious status of natural sciences in adult education and than argue that the traditional focus on natural sciences need to be readjusted. This change of focus aims at a general understanding of scientific developments by which both the individual and the society as a whole will gain and maintain its capacity to judge and act on…
How to relate Natural Sciences to Adult Education Drawing on an intensive debate on the improvement of scientific literacy going on in Germany for more than ten years, this article deals with possible contributions of adult education. Starting with the marginal supply of science courses for adults, I focus on typical didactical arrangements and concepts. Based on an empirical study, exemplary didactical concepts are analysed regarding aims, topics, course type, and audience. The results are…
In zehn Thesen lotet der Autor das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Praxis der Erwachsenenbildung aus. Beide Bereiche sind an vielen Stellen eng miteinander verwoben, ihr Verhältnis aber ist komplex und nicht friktionsfrei. Gleichwohl bleibt es, so das Fazit des Autors, im Sinne einer gegenseitigen Perspektivenanreicherung gestaltbar.
Interesse und Zeit sind für den Austausch und die Kommunikation zwischen den Angehörigen von Wissenschaft und Praxis in der Erwachsenenbildung erforderlich, findet die Autorin dieses Beitrags. Sie zeigt anhand zweier Beispiele auf, wie der Transfer zwischen den beiden Feldern erfolgreich gelingen kann.
The author diagnoses a widening gap between scientific and general public: as political and social estimation of science rises, it vanishes from daily life and is taken into well-funded but not ver y well-known institutions and thus hidden from the view of the public. At the same time, ever-rising numbers of people are confronted with the results of scientific research in their daily lives and thus in a way in intimate contact with science, but at the same time unable to understand its workings…
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