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This article explores the inherent normative nature of what on the surface appears to be neutral empirical research. Direct and indirect normative influences exercised by empirical research are demonstrated using the example of the PISA studies: (1) their desire to provide knowledge which can help steer policy, (2) the normative nature of their didactical concepts and educational theory, (3) the idea derived from the sequence of studies of adapting classroom instruction to conform with the conc…
The report focuses on empirical data of cultural life from a cultural political perspective. Despite the common experience of growth, a significant increase of cultural life participation cannot be empirically verified with regard to the time budgets applied – at least not of provisions attributed to the narrower definition of culture. There are more visits (especially of large cultural institutions and popular cultural events) but not necessarily more visitors. While the prerequisites for cult…
The development of typologies is used as a method in social and educational research that helps to systematically reduce complex information. Thus, developing typologies facilitates theoretical as well as empirical clarification and contributes in this way to the attainment of scientific insights. Typologies are based on the results of comparisons derived from analysing empirical material. These results are then clustered and outlined as dimensions for allocating individual cases, identifying i…
The article deals with the concept of self-competence, the importance of which has been growing in andragogy in the course of the individualization of professional life. Thereby the theoretical and empirical analysis focuses on the ´explanation´ of the term and its effects on the individuum. After the description of fundamental developments which cause the emergence of the topica theorectical and empirical modelling of (self-)competences follows. As a conclusion, consequences for the theory and…
Carola Iller geht in Ihrer Habilitationsschrift der Frage nach, ob und wie Individuen auf den Alternsprozess im Verlauf ihrer Erwerbs- und Bildungsbiographie einwirken können. Sowohl Betriebe als auch Beschäftigte richten bisher die Laufbahngestaltung nicht im Hinblick auf Alternsprozesse aus. Komplementär zu entsprechenden konzeptionellen Vorschlägen für betriebliche Organisations- und Arbeitsgestaltung wurde in dieser Untersuchung der Fokus auf individuelle Handlungsmöglichkeiten gelegt – woh…
The article discusses the chances of using a gerontological data base (Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adulthood, German Acronym: ILSE) for analyses in educational biography research: Learning to age tends to be the central category of this analyses. The article comments on the current debate of aging and education and expounds the problems of politically driven activation of elders and the programmatic turn in the discussion. In a second step the article elaborates on what terms it is …
Normative Patterns of Biography and Contradictory Experiences as Resources in Women’s Educational Biographies As part of a research project on discontinuities in female educational and professional careers, this essay focusses on conflicting expectations women experience – conflicts between set normative social standards and biographies on the one hand, and the different individual plans and perspectives on the other hand. Group discussions among the participants of a Women’s Studies Program…
Ist die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe behinderter Menschen durch Bildung schon verwirklicht, und wenn ja, wie weit? Dies ist eine Hauptfragestellung der Ausgabe 4/2003, das anlässlich des „Europäischen Jahres der Menschen mit Behinderungen“ erschienen ist. Im Gespräch mit Dr. Peter Radtke – Schauspieler, Geschäftsführer der „AG Behinderung und Medien e.V.“, ehem. VHS-Fachgebietsleiter und selber durch die Glasknochenkrankheit behindert – geht es u.a. um die Zielgruppe „Behinderte“ in der Erwachsen…
Masterarbeit zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades „Master of Arts“ im Fach Pädagogik
