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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…
Adult education is a field that is strongly shaped by tensions between scientific and political demands. The development of competencies as well as the idea of continuing to learn throughout the whole life are topics that have been debated in science and policy for many years and are still of great importance today. This dissertation deals with the relationship between science and European education policy in adult education by analyzing scientific journal articles and political documents from …
Diese Expertise begleitet den disziplinübergreifenden Diskurs der Arbeitsgruppe „Lernforschung“, welche vom DIE 2004 einberufen wurde. Die Expertise prüft, präsentiert und reflektiert den Stand der empirischen Erforschung des Lernens in der Disziplin Erwachsenenbildung. Für den Zeitraum von 1990 bis 2004 werden in kurzen Skizzen rund 50 Studien vorgestellt, die sich auf systematisch erhobene und methodisch kontrollierte Befunde stützen. Ihre Gegenstände reichen vom Lernen in Institutionen über …
