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Kooperieren ist eine elementare Praktik in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung, so Matthias Alke im »Stichwort«. Wie diese Praktik in der Digitalisierung Einrichtungen und Verbände herausfordert, diskutieren Mathias Repka, Christof Schulz, Julia von Westerholt und Beatrice Winkler im »Gespräch«, während Jan Koschorreck und Angelika Gundermann zeigen, dass Kooperieren besonders geeignet ist, die Bewältigung der Digitalisierung zu unterstützen. Michael Marquart und Florian Köhler widmen sich mit i…
For the evaluation of the World Literacy Decade (2003–2012), the author focuses on the successful and unsuccessful UN literacy objectives. In the article, the mobilization for global literacy, the reliable data survey on the extent of the literacy problem, the world report »Education for All« with a main focus on alphabetization, the acknowledgment of literacy as a continuum of the »Belém Framework for Action«, the »UNESCO LIFE Initiative«, the »E-9 Initiative« as well as several international,…
This article is based on the significance of informal forms of learning in the context of lifelong learning as well as the structural educational theory following Marotzki. The authors sum up qualitative-empirical research findings on orientational changes of travel workers – young adults – while visiting and working in foreign countries to finance their journey. On this base, structural aspects of these journeys are identified, which can create an educational space: critical experiences, autot…
Cultural patterns characterize the architecture in which we live and learn. The article by Urs Maurer helps to discover these unconsciously perceived patterns as an architectural language and adopt it for educational building. It is based on the concept of architectural language being marked by polarities, particularly the antagonism between »death crystal« and »tree of life« coined by Ernst Bloch.
