Alle alles über Fußball zu lehren

This article adopts the PISA study’s staged competence model in the area of football. The authors specify five levels of competency in football literacy to serve as the basis for an adult education curriculum. The motivation for the study is the staging of the World Cup in a country which was the loser in the PISA study: Germany. The general public should be knowledgeable at least when it comes to football.

Naturwissenschaften in der Erwachsenenbildung - Was, wie und wozu vermitteln?

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…

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

Digitale Werkzeuge

Mediendidaktik

„Moderator/in digitale Inklusion“

In vielen europäischen Regionen haben sich Interneterfahrungsorte zu wichtigen Promotoren von Erwachsenenbildung und digitaler Inklusion entwickelt. Eine zentrale Herausforderung für solche Interneterfahrungsorte liegt in der Qualifizierung ihres Personals, der Moderatorinnen und Moderatoren für digitale Inklusion. Diese Gruppe zumeist zwar hoch motivierter, oft ehrenamtlich tätiger Menschen zu qualifizieren, ist kompliziert – teils aufgrund unterschiedlicher Vorqualifikationen, teils aufgrund …

Literacy as supply and demand

This paper draws on three data sources – a national survey from Germany of adult literacy and numeracy skills (leo. – Level-One Study), the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competences (PIAAC), and case studies of workplaces in England – to argue for a greater focus by policymakers and researchers on the literacy demand experienced by adults. We consider the heterogeneity of the population of adults deemed functionally illiterate by large-scale national and internatio…

Alphabetisierung – Literacy – Alphabétisation

Politiken der Grundbildung im internationalen Vergleich

Literacy level I and below versus literacy level IV and above

Literacy as specified in the recent PIAAC survey (OECD 2013) is separated into competence levels. This allows a comparison of adults performing on literacy Level I and below versus those performing on Level IV and above. The PIAAC survey also contains variables on participation in adult education. Core findings confirm the Matthew effect for participation rates, but not for training hours.