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This paper arguments that if competency assessment is to make any contribution as a potentially “liberating” curriculum strategy for struggles of community development and self-determination then it needs to contest the authoritarianism of the national qualification frameworks that have been established in Australia and New Zealand. This article critiques research and policy efforts, in particular for indigenous learners which seek to merely make authoritarian curriculum and assessment structur…
This article explains what paths adults can opt for in order to acquire a reflexive understanding of time while not being content with a purely goal-oriented, “maximising” improvement in time management. Ms. Hribernik adopts Holzkamp’s approach to first of all describe what such “learning to understand time“ needs to involve before then identifying learning possibilities from an Austrian perspective – possibilities which she sees above all in books, but also in lecture events and the activities…
People learn in manifold ways in football clubs. This article illustrates this by examining the manager-licensing system of the German Football Association and initiatives aimed at strengthening the role of volunteers in clubs through special qualification strategies. This article supplements a retrospective text which shows that clubs are an important place of learning and the roots of adult education lie in the domain of clubs.
In a small “philosophy story of joy“, the author bends a bow from Aristotle across Kant to utilitarianism. Aristotle had defined joy as that, where a person finds himself. Kant on the other hand accents, that a person can only be satisfied with himself who lives in unison with his moral beliefs. With the utilitarian the author retains: “It is not questionable, whether we are all strive for joy, but what joy is.“ Here the task of (adult) education affiliates: It must first enable people to judge…
Ein kurzer Überblick über die für die Weiterbildung relevanten Rechtsnormen.
Adult pedagogical responsibility in the interpretation and explanation of empirical results for knowledge-based education needs analysis Education needs analyses often appear in a picture of the "comparison" of definable desired value and measured actual value. Thereby mostly the impression of deficits arise. Depending on the arrangement of a needs analysis, therewith in a special way questions are posed concerning the processing and application of the empirical data material, especially w…
