Getting immersed in teacher and student perspectives? Facilitating analytical competence using video cases in teacher education

The ability to analyze and understand classroom situations through the eyes of not only teachers but also students can be seen as a crucial aspect of teachers’ professional competence. Even though video case-based learning is considered to have great potential for the promotion of analytical competence of teachers (i.e., becoming immersed in student and teacher perspectives as well as applying conceptual knowledge to better understand classroom situations), only a few studies have investigated …

Case-based learning with digital videos: Does it promote the professional development of teachers and trainers in adult education?

Altrichter, Herbert; Langer, Roman; Maag Merki, Katharina (Hg.): Educational Governance als Forschungsperspektive. 2014

Sievers, Isabel; Hauenschild, Katrin; Robak, Steffi(Hg.): Diversity Education. Zugänge – Perspektiven – Beispiele. 2013

Finanzierung lebenslangen Lernens

Bildung ist eine Qualität – Geld eine Quantität. Manchmal scheint es, als stände sich die Erwachsenenbildung selbst im Weg, wenn sie Geldfragen als Widerspruch zum humanistischen Bildungsgedanken betrachtet und die Debatte Finanzexperten überlässt. Das Heft diskutiert Finanzmodelle lebenslangen Lernens unter bildungspolitischen und erziehungswissenschaftlichen Aspekten (Timmermann, Paape und Grünwald/Moraal) und beleuchtet die Praxis von EU geförderten Programmen (Theessen). Im Gespräch be…

Emancipatory Adult Literacy in Brazil/Emanzipatorische Erwachsenenalphabetisierung in Brasilien

In today’s societies literacy is regarded as the prerequisite for participating in the professional and private spheres of everyday life. It is regarded as a human right, a tool for personal empowerment and a tool to influence the behaviour of individuals, families and communities. Despite the international consensus that literacy skills determine opportunities and provide access to today’s information-based societies, many adults in both industrialized and developing countries find themselves …

Internationales Jahrbuch der Erwachsenenbildung

Mapping culture and arts adult education using announcement texts in databases applying natural language processing methods

“We are similar but at the same time different.” Building connections and community with the ‘other’ through an adult education project in Canada

Later life learning from experience: the cross-cultural importance of ‘life reviews’ in seniors’ lifelong education and learning

Lifelong education for seniors is becoming a significant policy focus because of factors relating to the global aging society phenomenon. Yet the modern ‘educational demoralisation’ that can result from informal experiential learning not being sufficiently valued or encouraged, may also apply to later life learning—typically manifest as a ‘fear of ageing’ as well as ageism. This is especially so in contexts where policymakers tend to just mainly focus on the worrying economic, health and other …