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Working in small groups can be regarded as constitutive for learning with cases. Using the example of case-based “train the trainer courses”, this contribution focuses on cooperative learning processes in small groups regarding the contents of the conversation and discussion structure as well as the effects on the competence development of individual adult learners. The presented results provide an insight of the processes of situated, problem-based learning in small groups which are common in …
Wie steht es um die Weiterbildung? Dieser Frage ist das Institut für Erwachsenen-Bildungsforschung der Universität Bremen nachgegangen. Ziel der Expertise 'Zukunft Lebenslangen Lernens' war es, Indikatoren zu ermitteln, die für Praxis und Politik aussagekräftige Entwicklungen innerhalb der Weiterbildungslandschaft dokumentieren können. Als Grundlage für diese empirische Untersuchung am Beispiel Bremens dienten die Hauptindikatoren 'Clusterbildung und Kooperation', 'Brokerage und Beratung', 'Mo…
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The notion of lifelong learning is reshaping the structural principle according to which learning is organised in the time structures of society. Long periods of time spent in schools are becoming more flexible, with shorter sections of ordered learning times being distributed throughout people’s lives and more flexible transitions taking place between work and learning. The three-phase scheme for working life – training, work and retirement – is becoming more flexible. The LLL concept can be s…
Die Bedeutung lebenslangen Lernens in der Wissensgesellschaft ist politisch weitgehend unumstritten. Wenig erforscht ist bislang jedoch die Frage, wie Individuen die Herausforderung, lebenslang zu lernen, subjektiv wahrnehmen und in welcher Weise sich dies in ihrem Weiterbildungsverhalten und ihrer Lernbereitschaft tatsächlich niederschlägt. Die hier dokumentierte bundesweit durchgeführte Untersuchung geht diesen Fragen nach. Befragt wurde eine repräsentative Stichprobe der deutschen Erwerbsbev…
The author provides a row of examples for the overlapping of practical social work and adult education existing already today. In the light of the task of making it possible for all people to come along in the accelerated life and work life, both disciplines should go together more strongly. Adult education needs to open up to social work and the social work needs to understand itself as being pervaded by adult education.
The concept of support-networks is currently finding its way out of the theoretical discussions into practical application. This is not only due to the zeitgeist of reduced governmental investments in education policy but also because the concept of support takes into account the social embeddedness of learning costs and thus contributes to the discourse of the „learning society“. Networks are propagated as an alternative to either the state or the market, on the other hand they are likely to c…
