[Dollhausen, Karin: Planungskulturen in der Weiterbildung. 2008]

Normative Lebenslaufmuster und Widerspruchserfahrungen als Ressourcen in weiblichen Bildungsbiographien

Normative Patterns of Biography and Contradictory Experiences as Resources in Women’s Educational Biographies As part of a research project on discontinuities in female educational and professional careers, this essay focusses on conflicting expectations women experience – conflicts between set normative social standards and biographies on the one hand, and the different individual plans and perspectives on the other hand. Group discussions among the participants of a Women’s Studies Program…

Biographieszenarien Älterer in der zweiten Lebenshälfte

Biographical Orientations for Older People in Adult Education In times of demographic changes and an increasing flexibility of biographies, adult education is in need of adjusting its repertoire. General and highly standardized programmes alone do no longer fit the heterogeneity of its target groups. The article is based on two empirical studies – one focuses on individual management of work path, the other shows the importance of structuring time and activities to elder people. With these, …

Biographisches Lernen als Bestandteil des Studiums zur Professionalisierung der Erwachsenenbildung?

Biographical Learning as a Contribution to the Professionalization in Adult Education at University Level Biographical learning as a subject matter in the course of studies is a method to reflect upon and change individual learning strategies. One can describe such strategies both as an unconscious as well conscious reflection of biographies that strive for development. On the one hand, this is aiming at reflecting previous learning processes; on the other hand, this shall serve to develop a…

Nuissl, Ekkehard: Trends der Weiterbildung. DIE-Trendanalyse 2008

[Dewe, Bernd; Weber, Peter J.: Wissensgesellschaft und Lebenslanges Lernen. 2007]

[Arnold, Rolf; Holzapfel, Günther (Hrsg.): Emotionen und Lernen. 2008]

Verzeitlichte Bildungsgestalten: Subjektbildung im Kontext des Lebenslangen Lernens

Temporalized “Bildungsgestalten” (educational formations) – The formation of the subject in the context of Lifelong Learning The article outlines the reference framework of an ongoing DFG-financed research project. Based on theoretical assumptions which rest upon German Bildungstheorie the project analyses Lifelong Learning as a special mode of the formation of subjects. The projects’ core research concept, which brings into focus the importance of education for the formation of the subjec…

Kürzer und kompakter

Data on adult education centres kept since 1962 shows interesting longitudinal historical results regarding time structures for adult education classes offered at adult education centres: (1) The increase in continuing education activities which can be observed on the whole is only accounted for by course-type classes, not by individual classes. (2) The average course time has decreased by about 20 percent over the last 20 years. (3) With respect to forms of time organisation, the evening cours…

Übersicht und Distanz gewinnen

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…