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Das Verhältnis von Theorie und Praxis ist spannungsvoll. Aus Sicht der in der Erwachsenenbildung Tätigen erscheinen Theorien häufig unbrauchbar, weil sie zu abstrakt und praxisfern wirken. Hier baut der Studientext eine Brücke. Der Autor zeigt in seiner vollständig aktualisierten und erweiterten 3. Auflage verschiedene in der Erwachsenenbildung gängige Theorieansätze auf, verortet sie hinsichtlich Herkunft und Reichweite und verweist auf ihre Bedeutung für die Planung und Gestaltung von Bildun…
Adult education is also stamped by linear legends, including its implicit models of biography. These are, as shall be shown in the first section of this consideration, concepts of a setting-out-biography. They oversee the aspect of life coming to an end. For that reason adult education often just shows half of the picture of an adult. The adult appears as a timeless entity, being in principle open for development. His “Unteachableness” is not really seen as a result of the structural rigidity o…
This article explores the inherent normative nature of what on the surface appears to be neutral empirical research. Direct and indirect normative influences exercised by empirical research are demonstrated using the example of the PISA studies: (1) their desire to provide knowledge which can help steer policy, (2) the normative nature of their didactical concepts and educational theory, (3) the idea derived from the sequence of studies of adapting classroom instruction to conform with the conc…
Sites and trajectories of learning disconnected from schooling and traditional training are discussed against the background of a new scientification of work related to the shift towards an information technological mode of production. This scientification is rooted in a new relation of theory and practice at work. Accordingly, workers play a new strategic role in work processes: they have to optimize procedures, define and search for reasonable objectives, reflect on methods and strategies of …