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Begriffsklärungen rund um "Generationenwechsel"
In view of the demographic change the investments in education for elderly population are becoming increasingly more important. At the same time the educational system’s endeavours of repair are rather targeted at the very young. How can the educational investments be divided usefully between the old and the young? By showing examples of Scandinavian countries, the author elucidates a double strategy of high educational investments for the phase of youth and in adult life. The countries have su…
Das Lernen am Computer gelingt unterschiedlich gut. Die Beobachtungen aus einem Schulprojekt zeigen, dass offenbar den individuellen Prädispositionen der Lerner eine hohe Bedeutung zukommt. Es gibt im Blick auf mediengestütztes Lernen anscheinend ähnliche „Lernertypen“ wie beim „traditionellen Lernen“. Der Beitrag erzählt von zwei Lernerbiographien; für einen Schüler ist der Computer ein Hindernis, für eine andere Lernerin ist der Rechner eine Chance, insofern er „anonymen und bestärkende Einze…
Begriffklärungen rund um das Thema Entgrenzung.
Findings of the empirically and medically oriented sports sciences point to the fact that ageing processes can be retarded and their consequences alleviated by adequately dosed exercise. The compensation-oriented intervention plan derived from this fact is, however, based on normative ideas of an unproblematic functioning of the body which is seen as the essential prerequisite of a high quality of living in old age. The objective of an education for the elderly that focusses on an emancipative …
