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Die Frage nach der Beteiligung an Weiterbildung hat in der Erwachsenenbildungswissenschaft eine lange Tradition. Im Rahmen der Adressaten-, Zielgruppen- und Teilnehmerforschung wurde insbesondere nach 1945 die Teilnahme an Weiterbildung wissenschaftlich untersucht. Eine regelmäßige statistische Erfassung des „Weiterbildungsverhaltens“ begann national mit dem Berichtssystem Weiterbildung (BSW), das von 1979 bis 2007 veröffentlicht und das dann vom europäischen Adult Education Survey (AES) abgel…
Education and occupation The categories of occupation and education were considered to constitute a contradiction in classic educational theory. A paradigm change is taking place through current societal modernisation processes: occupation and education are especially characterised by mutual interaction. This issue of the REPORT examines the tension-fraught relationship between occupation and education in articles offering theoretical and empirical insight, focusing on four focal points: the …
This report reflects potentials and dangers for adult education resulting from the process of Europeanizing educational politics. The report indicates the associated structural mechanisms of action in the area of tension of cooperation and competition with the example of the European Qualification Frame (EQF). While intending to achieve a better comparability of educational systems and educational programmes the EQF in fact injects fresh impetus for more national and international competition. …
This article sums up development cooperation in adult education, providing information about the fields in which this cooperation takes place, which funds it uses and which professionals are involved. When it comes to the question of how German adult education exports have affected transitional countries, the spotlight is on evaluation. The authors ascertain that evaluation work has reached different stages in different educational fields. In the sector of vocational education cooperation the f…
»Education for sustainable development (ESD)« first became a term of educational politics in 1998 by use in papers of the Bund-Laender Commission. While sustainability as a principle of development politics has already been used since the Bund-Laender Commission in 1987, the connection with the educational term first hesitantly was made with the Agenda 21 of Rio 1992. In Germany above all the environmental educators adopted the term ESD, but not without political pressure. With diverse protago…
The high mortality rate among Lesotho’s younger generation, caused by disruptions such as chronic illnesses and other socio-economic and cultural changes, has led older adults to become caregivers. This paper reports on the experiences of older adults regarding their caregiving role during times of disruption. It further reveals how older adults have learned about their role as caregivers. Adult learning theories were reviewed and used to interpret the results of the study. The interpretive par…
Like a fabric made of different threads, adult education waives multiple places and reveals different paces whose influences may be complementary, contradictory and antagonistic with each other. The spaces and times that shape people’s life are rarely static or constant. They evolve and fluctuate. Every day, throughout their existence, people have to learn to adjust, coordinate and move through material, natural, social and symbolic environments that keep evolving. The aim of this paper is to e…
Die in dieser Auswahlbibliografie aufgeführte und zum Teil kommentierte Literatur soll als Ausgangspunkt für das weitergehende Selbststudium zum Thema offene Bildungsressourcen (Open Educational Resources, OER) dienen. Die Auswahl konzentriert sich vor allem auf Veröffentlichungen nach 2012, da die OER-Bewegung ab diesem Jahr durch den ersten OER-Weltkongress der UNESCO in Paris deutlich an Dynamik und wissenschaftlicher Aufmerksamkeit gewinnen konnte. Die Struktur der Bibliografie orientiert s…
