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Dieser Text geht der Frage nach, inwieweit Praxis, Empirie und Theorie in der Erwachsenenbildung zusammen wirken. Nach einer getrennten Betrachtung von Praxis, Empirie und Theorie, erfolgt eine Diskussion der Schwierigkeiten des Zusammenwirkens.
Going out from the »UN ECE Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development« of March 2005 the author describes which challenges have arisen from the establishment of the perspective of sustainability. In an overview of the different areas of adult education it becomes obvious, how variable the concept of ESD finds acceptance (adult evening classes, environmental education, global learning, academies). Eventually the contribution encourages to comprehend ESD as a chance for adult education an…
Resistance against education and learning as a result of pedagogical and didactic acting: The article reports two research projects in adult education at the University of Kaiserslautern focusing identity-relevant and emotional aspects of learning resistance. While both aspects are rather neglected in the research on education and learning they are substantial for the understanding of learning resistance phenomena as well as for the reconstruction of the own pedagogical practice.
Resistance against education and learning as a result of pedagogical and didactic acting: The article reports two research projects in adult education at the University of Kaiserslautern focussing identity-relevant and emotional aspects of learning resistance. While both aspects are rather neglected in the research on education and learning they are substantial for the understanding of learning resistance phenomena as well as for the reconstruction of the own pedagogical practice.
Hattie‘s study »Visible Learning« is no reason to call for didactic changes in adult education - this is this article’s conclusion of the New Zealander’s meta-study from a continuing educational perspective. Nontheless, Hattie provides significant suggestions for the didactic debate. These suggestions include guidelines for suitable teaching activities as well as his rather provocative findings on the positive effects of actively guided lessons, which do not contradict adult educational conside…
In einer Zeit, die von »alternativen Fakten« und »Fakes« geprägt ist, erscheint die Beschäftigung mit den Fundamenten der Erwachsenenbildung geboten: Was ist unumstößlich, was unhintergehbar? Der Autor begründet in seinem Beitrag thesenhaft die christlich-aufklärerisch geprägten normativen Ansprüche, die für ihn konstitutiv für die Erwachsenenbildung sind.
