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Hattie‘s study »Visible Learning« is no reason to call for didactic changes in adult education - this is this article’s conclusion of the New Zealander’s meta-study from a continuing educational perspective. Nontheless, Hattie provides significant suggestions for the didactic debate. These suggestions include guidelines for suitable teaching activities as well as his rather provocative findings on the positive effects of actively guided lessons, which do not contradict adult educational conside…
Research on learning - a retrospective The history of empirical research on adults’ learning reaches back until the twenties of the last century. This contribution evokes some interpretative research on the pedagogy of learning and teaching for adults. It seems that the adult education sciences’ disciplinary memory is underdeveloped as many instructive older analysis seem to have fallen into oblivion. Recent studies mostly don’t pay attention to the linkages and continuity of the questions. …
Das Projekt Benachteiligte in der Weiterbildung“ (http://www.die-bonn.de/projekte/beendet/projekte.asp?projekteid=5) hat Literatur der letzten 20 Jahre zu Ausgrenzung und social exclusion, zum Weiterbildungsverhalten, zur Zielgruppenforschung, zur Bildungsarbeit mit benachteiligten Zielgruppen und ausgewählte statistische Daten ausgewertet. Dies wurde ergänzt durch Expertengespräche. Die subjektive und objektive Dimension von Determinanten der Benachteiligung wurden untersucht und die instituti…
