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Das Lehrbuch befasst sich mit Sozialisation und informellem Lernen als lebenslangen Aneignungsprozessen. Gesellschaftlich führen diese zu Sozialem Wandel. Individuell beeinflussen sie die Persönlichkeitsentwicklung. Ihre Erforschung zielt auf das Erfassen sozialer Ungleichheiten und den pädagogischen Umgang mit sozialer Differenzierung. Hiervon gehen die Bildungschancen Erwachsener aus. Die Autoren führen in die Diskurse der Sozialisationsforschung ein. Ihr Blick richtet sich dann auf die Konte…
Was gilt es bei der Programmerstellung für Geflüchtete zu berücksichtigen? Die Autoren nehmen Geflüchtete als Adressaten von Maßnahmen der Erwachsenenbildung in den Blick und stellen aus einer Bildungsplanungssicht Spezifika der Lernvoraussetzungen und der Lernbedarfe der Adressatengruppe vor.
The development of digital media continuously provides new opportunities for developing teaching/learning processes. As a result, the media educational requirements for teachers to assess the relevant chances and risks and to use digital media effectively as a learning support, is growing. The article points out the demand for paying increased attention to this specific competence. It presents a media educational competence model for adult educators, which was developed on a theoretical and emp…
John Locke vertrat die Meinung, dass das Lernen auf fünf Säulen basieren sollte: Lust, erfahrungsorientiert, gesunde Ernährung, viel Bewegung und ohne körperliche Bestrafung. Damit stellte er das bisherige Lernkonzept in Frage. Die nachfolgenden Zitate präsentieren einige seiner Ansichten.
The following article focuses the mostly neglected relation between identity and learning by reconstructing foreign learning efforts by adults. In spite of educational policy's proclamation of (continuous) lifelong learning real learning processes are characterized by various discontinuities. Adults deal with these discontinuities by perceiving, describing and structuring them dependent on their self-images as learners. Interpretations of interviews with adult language learners supply evidence …
The article focuses on the development of the global educational discourse from a human rights perspective, particularly with regard to adult education and lifelong learning. The author discusses the historic milestones set by the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the consequent understanding of learning as well as the various national implementation strategies of the right for lifelong learning.
The following article focuses on the debate on organizational learning from an adult-educational point of view. In most approaches to organizational learning the members of an organization are regarded as the main drivers of organizational learning processes. However, such approaches do not systematically incorporate important presumptions of learning-theory, although this promises to create a better understanding of adult-educational experiences within organizations. Hence, the article present…
