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The book provides a guideline for a didactic planning and design of conferences, conventions and workshops. It serves to support the act of preparation, realization and evaluation of events in adult education and may be used in various contexts and on a variety of topics. The book addresses staff working in the management and leadership of institutions in adult education, in public relations and event management.
The author unmasks »education for sustainable development « as an empty phrase, which has failed as a trademark in public relations. Not even the teachers would know what exactly is concealed behind it textually. Per decree an orientational concept of politics and administration is prescribed in order to encounter practitioners with great reserve. Ultimately education for sustainable development is nothing more than plainly modern education.
Das Heft dokumentiert die Beiträge der Jahrestagung 2002. Neben dem Einführungsvortrag sind die Referate aus den folgenden Arbeitsgruppen vertreten 1: Weiterbildungspolitik 2: Politische Bildung 3: Erwachsenenbildung und Öffentlichkeit 4: Geschichte der Erwachsenenbildung - eine Geschichte der Demokratie? 5: Relation zwischen politischer Jugendbildung und Erwachsenenbildung
This contribution deals with the definition of adult basic education and its entanglement with interests and power relations in the field of public education administration of the German Laender. As the New Literacy Studies view literacy as a social practice that is related to interests and power relations, guided interviews concerning the definition of adult basic education as well as legitimising rationales from the perspective of education administration were illustrated. The interviews are …
Concept maps in the teaching-learning context Concept maps are understood to mean two-dimensional structural presentations of knowledge or information in the form of a network. This article explains the principle of the concept map, including in relation to the mind map, and sums up results of teaching-learning research for its use. Readers find out what purposes concept maps can be used for (e.g. knowledge diagnostics), how their learning efficacy is assessed and what factors can boost th…
Poujol, Geneviève [Vorr.]
Inclusion – An Organisational Challenge. Steps towards Inclusive Adult Education. Part 1 The report evaluates the option of offering inclusive adult education at adult education centres on a larger scale. The compatibility of the new policy statement in adult education centres and the principle of inclusion are pointed out. Implications of the concept of inclusion are presented, which lead to the conclusion that inclusion can only be implemented with a comprehensive organisational developmen…
