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Demokratien weltweit stehen unter Druck, allenthalben wird die Diagnose gesellschaftlicher Spaltung bemüht. Wie können außerschulische politische Bildung und Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung dabei unterstützen, Menschen für die Demokratie zu gewinnen? weiter bilden blickt auf aktuelle Gesellschaftsdiagnosen und neuere Entwicklungen beim Bilden für die Demokratie.
Krise & Chance Krisen sind etwas, womit moderne Gesellschaften leben müssen, so Heinz-Elmar Tenorth im »Stichwort«. Die aktuelle Corona-Krise wirkt sich unterschiedlich auf die verschiedenen Bildungsbereiche aus – was auch mit deren jeweiliger Handlungslogik zu tun hat (Ulrich Heine¬mann). In der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung sind neben den (wirtschaftlichen) Folgen für die Einrichtungen (Kohl & Denzl und Tafelbild) und die Lehrenden (Pia Probst) vor allem Fragen der Digitalisierung virulent…
Volunteering in the field of migration/refuge opens up a potential learning space for the acquisition of numerous competencies. The paper is based on an empirical pre-study from Austria and focusses on an analysis of political learning processes amongst volunteers and their implications for the development of active citizenship and the connected challenges for adult education. Diverse factors influencing the engagement of volunteers, such as political and media discourse about refugees, are con…
This paper deals with a new approach in the promotion of literacy, which focuses on social integration. This approach has been inspired by a concept of adult education aiming at integration and by social work oriented to the life world of the addressees. These concepts are being adapted to the work with functionally illiterate persons. The approach discussed here includes different forms of action promoting literacy: both learning and consulting, and also institutional cooperation in networks. …
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…
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Colleagues from various European countries were invited to an international lecture series at the University of Duisburg-Essen to talk about trends in adult and continuing education. Looking back on this lecture series, we intend to examine different approaches to the term “trend” as well as to outline results of current research in adult and continuing education. We will then give an overview of main arguments of the essays presented in the following. Finally, common trends in European adult a…
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…
