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The following article focuses on the debate on organizational learning from an adult-educational point of view. In most approaches to organizational learning the members of an organization are regarded as the main drivers of organizational learning processes. However, such approaches do not systematically incorporate important presumptions of learning-theory, although this promises to create a better understanding of adult-educational experiences within organizations. Hence, the article present…
Due to the increasing blur of learning boundaries, the need arises for re-defining the concept of learning space. Based on an understanding of learning space, which refers to the local circumstances within organized education programs, the article initially aspires to include the debate on learning space in the discussion of informal learning, before it then focuses on the relation between time and location and the significance of virtual learning spaces. The article itself does not re-define t…
The report includes a slightly revised version of a lecture held during the opening ceremony of the German Continuing Education Day in Berlin in 2012. The author focuses on the day’s central idea: surplus value of continuing education and pleads for the use of the benefit concept, which includes the individual’s perspective, as well as the concept of profit with regard to the social and organizational perspective.
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.
Learning behaviour and milieu as central dimensions at the analysis of the life-long learning process Based on the empirical qualitative research project on "Biography and Learning Behaviour", in which the influence of the generation threshold established knowledge and the origin milieu of dockyard workers in Rostock with which the biographical processing of the societal transformation processes in the former DDR were examined, the following facets are made a subject of discussion. Prefacing…
The didactical gap in the “didactical self choice” In adult education didactics are closely conglomerated with learn theoretical concepts without clearly naming its own questions in content. This becomes especially obvious in the newly research on e-learning. After the failure of the technically possible, the call for didactics has become loud. When one regards the pertinent publications, one finds remarkably many which take their didactical foundation from the learn theory and therewith ha…
Im Rahmen dieses Projektes entsteht folgende Dissertation: Ioannidou, Alexandra: Bildungsmonitoring und Bildungsberichterstattung zu lebenslangem Lernen (Arbeitstitel)
In einer Zeit, die von »alternativen Fakten« und »Fakes« geprägt ist, erscheint die Beschäftigung mit den Fundamenten der Erwachsenenbildung geboten: Was ist unumstößlich, was unhintergehbar? Der Autor begründet in seinem Beitrag thesenhaft die christlich-aufklärerisch geprägten normativen Ansprüche, die für ihn konstitutiv für die Erwachsenenbildung sind.
