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The following report offers an insight on the theoretical and empirical issue of cultural adult education. It is understood as an institution for the refinement of the aesthetic senses which, according to Welsch, can easily become anesthetic – a situation of suspended sensitivity. A second empirical approach presents the current provisions systematized by three “Portals of Participation“. Cultural educational provisions may be attributed to the “systematic-receptive type“, the “independent-crea…
Unter dem Schlagwort #ögög wird gefordert, dass Inhalte von öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten, die als Bildungsmaterial Verwendung finden können, unter einer freien Lizenz veröffentlicht werden. Wie diese Forderung begründet wird und welche Vorteile dies für Bildungseinrichtungen und Lehrende hätte, erläutern die Autoren.
Learning at the workplace – an “intimate” event The author takes the example of two female employees with a background of migration to show how strongly adults’ motivation to learn and their learning decisions are influenced by personal, deeply private motivations, even when they are pushed into learning by an external influence, as is often the case in companies. The theoretical basis on which the author interprets the case examples in the light of the “intimacy of lifelong learning” is th…
References to theory of present research on further education Commonly in the scientific discourse one distinguishes between basic research and implementation orientated research. The latter often takes place as order research that in the ususal case is application orientated and practice orientated. This type of research often exhibits only an implicit reference to theory as several examples show. In this context an intensified co-operation between basic research and implementation orientat…
Hannelore Jouly, Direktorin der Stadtbücherei Stuttgart, umreißt im DIE-Gespräch “Begegnung mit dem Unerwarteten” Dimensionen konzeptioneller und medialer Planung und Gestaltung von neuen Lernräumen und veränderten Lernarrangements in einem multimedialen Lernzentrum. Erhard Schlutz fragt im Beitrag “Vom Methodenklmepner zum Lernarchitekten?”, wie flexibel Lehren und Lernen gestaltet werden müssen, um lebenslange, selbstgesteuerte Lernprozesse an unterschiedlichen - auch virtuellen - Lernorten z…
