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Dargestellt werden die Vorgeschichte und Aufgaben des im Jahr 2000 von der irischen Regierung veröffentlichten Weissbuchs zur Erwachsenenbildung. Bildungspolitisch wurde damit das lebenslange Lernen zum Prinzip erklärt.
The author presents first-hand and personal accounts of what popular education looks like in a classroom. Barbara Bee has had over 30 years teaching experience in adult education programs with poor and disadvantaged learners. She is regarded as one of the leading Australian practitioners in that time who drew inspiration from Paulo Freire. She describes how teaching in the 1970s and 1980s was so different to today. Back then teachers were encouraged to negotiate the curriculum with students. Bu…
The International PIAAC study has collected data on competencies of adults in three domains in 25 countries, in many of them for the first time ever. The article provides an overview of central terms, main aims and the methodological approach of this OECD study. It also discusses its potentials and limitations. One limitation is the focus on the labour force, excluding adults older than 65 years, a fast growing part of many populations in times of demographic change. To remedy this limitation,…
Wir haben festgestellt ..., daß es ein schwieriges Unterfangen ist, sich Europa zu nähern. Schon das, was mit Europa gemeint ist, zerfasert bei genauerem Blick: Weder geographisch noch politisch noch kulturell hat Europa klare Grenzen. So stand es im Editorial des Themenheftes Europa und Bildung, das wir vor drei Jahren als Nr. IV/1995 dieser Zeitschrift veröffentlichten. Erst drei Jahre, und nun wieder das gleiche Thema? Welch einfallslose Redaktion! Sogar so einfallslos, diesen beiden Europa-…
Dieser Beitrag zeigt das Ergebnis einer Surftour unter dem Aspekt der Internationalisierung der Erwachsenenbildung.
Die rumänische Gesellschaft ist einem umfassenden radikalen Veränderungsprozess unterworfen, der bis in dieTiefen des individuellen Lebens ausstrahlt, bis hin zur Mentalität der Menschen, ihrer Art zu denken, fühlen und zu leben. Ungureanu beschreibt die spezifischen Probleme einer kommunistischen Gesellschaft auf ihrem Weg zu einer kapitalistischen Gesellschaft und die Bedeutung der Erwachsenenbildung in diesem Prozess.
Institutionally organized adult education has traditionally seen the integration of social strata and groups as its most important task. However, in recent years an increasing disinterest of general adult education in integrative work is to be observed which goes along with the emergence of a specialised andragogical approach and institutional compartmentalization: people with disabilities are increasingly catered for by care facilities and financed by social welfare institutions. The emergence…
With increasing age, xenophobic and pejorative attitudes of people with a migration background and other cultures grow. Both adult education in older age and social work are hence faced with new challenges. On the basis of a statistic inventory on hostility of elderly people, different forms and specifications and also dimensions of discrimination are systematized by means of theory constructions. Enabling to focus on social community approaches, e.g. the concept of Habitus, as suggested by Bou…
