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The scope of literacy courses. Results of a representative survey among adult education centres As part of the EQUALS project, the German Adult Education Association (DVV) collected statistical data on literacy courses at adult education centres; this article presents the data and compares it with figures from 1994. The number of courses has risen, as has the number of participants, but fewer institutions than before provide this service. Compared with 1994, the participants are older and t…

Migranten und Migrantinnen - eine weitgehend unbekannte Zielgruppe in der Weiterbildung

A planned offer of further education organisations, orientated by the participant`s needs and interests, implies empirically confirmed data. The situation of data concerning further education behaviour and -interests of migrants in Germany referring to this is however moderate. This is on the one hand due to the definition problem of such constructs as “further education” and “people from migrant background” and adjunct to the difficulties with the operationalisation. On the other hand the data…

Biographieorientierung und Didaktik

Biography orientation and didactics Deliberations for the guidance of biographical learning in adult education In the practice of adult education methods and concepts of biographical learning have since long been integral part of didactical deliberations and they are newly made subject of discussion again and again with changing reasons and terms. For some time the concept of "Biographizität" is referred to in these discussions without the relevance of this term, which was developed in the …

Grundkompetenzen und tätigkeitsbereichsspezifische Kompetenzen von Personal mit Weiterbildungsverantwortung

Die Relevanz des erziehungswissenschaftlichen Studiums im Professionalisierungsprozeß von Erwachsenenpädagogen

Kognition, Emotion und mentale Selbstregulation: Zur Entstehung und Auflösung innerer Konflikte

Cognition, emotion and mental self-regulation: on the nascency and solution of inner conflicts The contribution provides a short overview of several results on nascency and solution of inner conflicts which in the frame of a research programme on mental self-regulation in learning processes of adults were gained. The author was head of the project and she draws practical conclusions for adult education.

"Patchworking" als moderne biographische Konstruktionsleistung

Lebenslauf und Patchworkbiographien.

Wissenschaft, Praxis und Politik, Verwaltung in der Weiterbildung - eine interdependente Trias

„Im Schatten der Hierarchie“

So far in the field of continuing education research the management concept is and has been primarily focused. Therefore the research is still centred on directing structures and objective processes. Thus, this article concentrates on leadership, i.?e. the superior’s intended influence on the coordination of organisation members. Based on a contrastive case comparison, it analyses the enhancement of hierarchical and non-hierarchical forms of action coordination triggered by the superior’s leade…