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Die Entwicklung einer Lernkultur selbstgesteuerten Lernens stellt Weiterbildungseinrichtungen vor große Herausforderungen. Wissenschaftlicher Reflexionsbedarf besteht nach wie vor - insbesondere im Hinblick auf die drei Aspekte "Umgang mit Lernwiderständen von Teilnehmenden", "didaktische Gestaltung von Selbstlernumgebungen", sowie "Entwicklung einer angemessenen Lernberatung" als neue Herausforderungen an das professionelle Handeln des Personals. Es werden empirische Forschungsarbeiten aus…
Further education networks from the view of the sociological neo-socialisms The contribution analyses chances and perspectives which are opened up by applying the theory of sociological neo-institutionalism to network research carried out within the field of adult education. The theory is understood as complementary to those network theories and concepts which are referred to within research already. In a first step basic assumptions and concepts of the sociological neo-institutionalism are …
The "Blue Series" is the DIE's most traditional series of books. It is aimed at researchers and students of adult education as well as academically interested practitioners. Scientific papers on a theoretical and empirical base provide access to adult education research and enhance the transfer of knowledge between practice and research. Over the past 30 years, it contributed significantly to the discipline of adult education.
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In the context of lifelong learning, the validation of prior learning has become a contested topic. Views differ about whether procedures should be oriented to (work) requirements – verifying that people match a defined competence profile – or be designed to support people in their personal development. In the latter case, the procedures mainly involve self-evaluation while in the first case they are concerned with external evaluation. In this paper a validation procedure is analysed that inclu…
Kompetenzen als Fähigkeiten zur Lebensbewältigung, als informell erworbene Fähigkeiten, als Elemente in nationalen Qualifikationsrahmen, als Lern- ergebnisse im Lebenslauf – es gibt keine andere Kategorie, die in den letzten Jahren derart an Bedeutung im Kontext von Lernen und (Weiter-)Bildung gewonnen hat. Was aber ist methodisch und empirisch an neuen Erkenntnissen vorhanden?
The research project KLASSIK examines the question of whether it is possible to increase competencies for information processing skills of older people. To this end, training courses that serve as experimental groups, performed a special, metacognitive thinking training. In the project also included comparison groups received no training. Before the treatment a performance test and an intelligence test ensure that both groups come from the same starting conditions. After the final test an appro…
The understanding of a knowledge-based society that orientates itself alongside an economic paradigm, is enhanced by showing up the pluralism of different types of knowledge. Within these different types the specific criteria of scientific knowledge are identified. Concerning the teaching and learning of scientific knowledge the question arises, by which methods this kind of knowledge can be communicated. These methods are associated with the function of unfolding the specific structure of scie…
The article aims at providing guidelines for a clear theoretical differentiation between various areas of tension in the planning of programs by outlining Structures and contradictory constellations have an impact on the contouring of antinomies and, thus, on program planning. A professional approach to program planning manifests itself in how such professional antinomies are dealt with, in particular. In addition to being of great value to the scientific analysis, this differentiation is also …
