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Due to special legal status, differences in social structure, and fewer chances on the labor market, people with migration background are less successful in initial schooling and vocational training programs. They are also under-represented in the area of adult education. The role of continuing education counseling, therefore, is to inform immigrants interested in education of the many individual educational opportunities that are available, to purposefully remove educational barriers, and to p…
Didactics – more than the art of teaching? The contribution gives an overview of the historical terms of didactics. With the background of changing paradigms, drawn is the entry of the didactical term into adult education and its development since the 1960s. One focus of the consideration is on the didactical change from “teaching“ to “formation of learning contexts”, which was influenced by the discussion on constructivism. Concluding, the author elaborates on the state of research on didac…
„Click and Type“ – new ways into the empirical practice On theory and practice of online researches It is still relatively unsettled what online research resp. online questionaires are and what effects these instruments have on the entire research process. On the basis of different sources and experiences from own projects this contribution goes into the matter of the single einzelnen effects online research from different perspectives, such as e. g. the options of figuration, the warranty…
Skript des Vortrags von Reiner Erd, Mitarbeiter an der FH Darmstadt, den er im Dezember 1999 am Deutschen Institut für Erwachsenenbildung gehalten hat. Er benennt rechtliche Probleme bei der Vergabe von Domain-Namen und beim Vertragsabschluss mit einem Provider. Erd geht insbesondere auf den Schutz persönlicher Daten und urheberrechtliche Probleme ein. Seine Ausführungen, die er mit den jeweiligen Gesetzestexten und ihren Auslegungen ergänzt, enden mit einem Ausblick auf die Zukunft des Interne…
