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This contribution suggests a reconstruction of didactic behavior in the context of adult education. Didactics is perceived as a specific kind of practice that can be analyzed with respect to its immanent significances. Thus, criteria of adult education didactics can be identified. These criteria are not only empirically found aspects concerning the conditions of success. Incorporated challenges concerning disciplining, impositions of teaching and authority matter as well. Notwithstanding adult …
Learning and acting - theses from the subject-orientated perspective It is sketched, by means of a few basic language-philosophical deliberations on the understanding and term of the acting subject, that the pre-assumption of a narrow connection of learning and application of the learnt in acting of the participants is not appropriate.
Die Studie „Benefits of Lifelong Learning“ (BeLL) wurde zwischen 2011 und 2014 in zehn Europäischen Ländern durchgeführt und am Deutschen Institut für Erwachsenenbildung – Leibniz-Zentrum für Lebenslanges Lernen e.V. (DIE) koordiniert. Sie wurde von der EU-Kommission im Lifelong-Learning-Programm („Studies and Comparative Research, KA1“) gefördert. Im Mai 2014 lagen die Ergebnisse vor. Sie zeigen: Allgemeine Erwachsenenbildung hat einen vielfältigen individuellen und sozialen Nutzen. Die Ergebn…
Changing the focus on Natural Sciences At present, public debates postulate more attention to natural sciences in the education sector. First, we will examine the precarious status of natural sciences in adult education and than argue that the traditional focus on natural sciences need to be readjusted. This change of focus aims at a general understanding of scientific developments by which both the individual and the society as a whole will gain and maintain its capacity to judge and act on…
Competence profile of the “specialist in violence” The changing requirements and roles of soldiers 50 years after the first military draft, this article explores the requirements and roles of German Army soldiers over the period 1957 to 2007. The changing competencies and skills required of soldiers must be understood in connection with the profound changes which the German Army has undergone in its transformation from a defence-oriented force to an army actively involved in military missions…
Man sollte annehmen, dass Blended Learning inzwischen weit verbreitet und als Lernform ausgereift ist. Am Beispiel betrieblicher Weiterbildung zeigt sich, dass dies nicht überall zutrifft. Was sind die Gründe dafür? Wo liegen Potenziale für die Weiterentwicklung? Darüber spricht Redakteur Jan Rohwerder mit Dr. Katja Bett, Gründerin der CLC – Corporate Learning & Change GmbH, Heiko Miedlich, Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Working Evolutions GmbH und Head of Business Development der WBwbS …
