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The increasing functional illiteratism among young adults is the background for the project „Gilgamesch“ – a cooperation of the university and the adult education centre in Munich. The learners are organized in small groups, the emphasis of the courses is on verbal improvement, cognitive ordering and handling of knowledge and on the development of individual strategies to overcome writing problems. The project’s theoretical and practical results will be transmitted to various institutions deali…
Gerhard von der Handt untersucht den Nutzen neuer Medien (interaktive Sprachlernprogramme/Lernsoftware, Internet, E-Mail) für das Fremdsprachenlernen. Lernprogramme reichen als alleiniges Medium nicht aus, können aber bestehende (angeleitete) Lernformen entlasten. Das Internet bietet zum ersten Mal die Möglichkeit, Lernen und Anwenden miteinander zu verbinden und erfüllt damit in hohem Maße die Bedingungen konstruktivistischen Lernens. Das soziale Lernen in angeleiteten Gruppen ist weiterhin si…
Die Individualisierung des Lernens (Selbstgesteuertes Lernen) und das schnelle Veralten von Wissen erfordern neue Lernarchitekturen. Sie sind im Wesentlichen geprägt von den Neuen Medien. Der räumliche und zeitliche Lernzusammenhang zwischen Menschen wird abgelöst von virtuellen Lernwelten. Genau davon kann die Erwachsenenbildung profitieren, indem sie den Lernenden neue Wege anbietet und einen breiten Rahmen für Zielsetzung, Intensität oder Ausgestaltung des Lernprozesses ermöglicht. Jedoch wa…
Based on considerations of the signaling theory and the reputation approach this study examines whether a relationship between employer-provided continuing vocational training and the success of establishments to recruit external qualified staff, can be demonstrated. The empirical analysis is based on a survey of establishments in Germany carried out in 2011. The results of a multivariate analysis show that establishments with continuing vocational training are more successful in recruiting qua…
Interest and Learning This article presents an overview of the so-called educational-psychological theory of interest and demonstrates its relevance for the processes and results of learning. Following this theoretical approach, interest behaviour can be described as a relation between person and object. It is accompanied by self-determination, positive emotions and a strong personal relation to certain objects or actions. Advantages of interest-motivated learning appear in improving cogniti…
The atmosphere of adult pedagogy (Re-) discovery of a central didactical category Even though every teacher would give the pedagogical atmosphere a central meaning for the progression of the learning activity, the marginal theoretical capture of this phenomenon in adult pedagogic is astonishing. A look over the edge of a plate makes it clear, that general pedagogy, philosophy and psychology has already come to interesting cognitions. Against this background, the aim of the contribution is …
Theoretical basics of a gender equal didactics Substantiations and consequences The contribution makes a subject of discussion the significance of the category gender for theoretical basics of didactical approaches in adult education. Structural gender characterize the adult education research, the institutions, the educational situations, the educational apprehension as well as the people participating with the educational actions and the worlds of their lives. These conditions for outco…
Organisation psychological profit for adult education using the example of "quality" In this contribution organisation psychological theory concepts and empirical methods are used for the current problem of educational institutions of providing a "quality proof" – in the sense of the implementation of quality management systems -, in order to maintain the continuity of their promotion. Before, the organisational psychology is sketched in its extension level, its methods and its reception beh…
At first sight, Ortfried Schäffter’s thesis looks trivial: a »pedagogical« organisation is an organisation that concentrates on focussing the interplay of all its energies on the success of its specific – namely, pedagogical – work. Examined more carefully, however, this means that a pedagogical organisation is one that furthers learning. Its success cannot be measured in terms of numbers of charges taken care of, duration of care, or hours spent in caregiving or counselling, nor i…
