Research
We explore how adult education can be made inclusive, digital and effective.
Services
Digital tools, specialist portals and data – for teachers, researchers, students and interested parties.
Institute
We offer research, transfer and infrastructure for lifelong learning.
Lebenslanges Lernens bedarf der Förderung und einer Supportstruktur, die allen Bevölkerungsteilen den Zugang zu Wissen und Information ermöglicht. In den letzten Jahren haben sich verstärkt auch Bibliotheken als Orte des lebenslangen Lernens profiliert. Dabei arbeiten diese zunehmend mit Weiterbildungseinrichtungen zusammen. Die vorliegende Expertise gibt einen Überblick über die Rolle der Bibliotheken als Lernzentren, beschreibt Kooperations- und Vernetzungsstrukturen mit Weiterbildungseinrich…
The German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) works as a provider of scientific ser vices for both research and practical work in adult and fur ther education, supplying institutions and researchers with statistical data, documents and support. Its strategic position at the interface between theory and practice corresponds with the institutes specific understanding of its own supportive function and distinctive corporate identity: transmitting scientific knowledge to practice and vice versa, p…
The historiography of adult education has painted an almost entirely optimistic picture of enlightenment until today. The actors are defined as people who are willing to learn and capable of being educated. Thanks to the advances in the enlightenment process they mature into responsible citizens. Sources based on individual history, like the ones presented in the “Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde” (1783-1793), are not taken into consideration. In his role as editor of the periodical magazine, …
Environmental education that fosters meaningful community participation and learning has been considered a requisite to sustaining our human and natural environments in many of the global conferences, agreements, declarations and charters since the 1972 UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm. Despite this growing consensus there is a small amount of published research in Australia in this field of practice we have decided to call popular and informal environmental education – education t…