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Die Bibliographie führt die nationalen und internationalen Teilbibliographien, die für den Zeitraum 1873 bis 1973 vorliegen, zusammen, ordnet die Beiträge thematisch und ergänzt fehlende Literaturangaben. Diese Gesamtschau von rund 700 Titeln dokumentiert die Professionalitätsdiskussion in einer Tiefe und Breite, die weder durch Recherchen im Internet noch durch die Sichtung von Bibliothekskatalogen zu erzielen wären. Sie schreibt die nachgewiesene Literatur für diesen Zeitraum fest und legt ei…
Bildung und Spiel – das ist mehr als die mutmaßlich gewürfelte Schulnote, die eine Bildungsbiografie ausbremst. Spiele, das ist die These dieses Heftes, sind anders als das Leben, aber weil sie uns in Distanz zur Wirklichkeit setzen, ermöglichen die Bildung. Ihr Lern- und Bildungspotenzial entfalten sie als Computerspiel ebenso wie als Gruppen- oder Strategiespiel. Der Einsatzbereich, das zeigen die Beiträge dieses Heftes, reichen von der Alphabetisierungsarbeit bis in die betriebliche Weiterbi…
Adult learning professionals are understood in the context of European Policy as key factor for the quality of adult education. In this paper a transnational European study programme, the European Master in Adult Education, is focussed on as an academic contribution to the professionalization of adult learning professionals: What core themes of European Adult Education can be identified? What didactic approaches are required for a transnational curriculum? How is the labour market taken into co…
Environmental education that fosters meaningful community participation and learning has been considered a requisite to sustaining our human and natural environments in many of the global conferences, agreements, declarations and charters since the 1972 UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm. Despite this growing consensus there is a small amount of published research in Australia in this field of practice we have decided to call popular and informal environmental education – education t…
The author presents first-hand and personal accounts of what popular education looks like in a classroom. Barbara Bee has had over 30 years teaching experience in adult education programs with poor and disadvantaged learners. She is regarded as one of the leading Australian practitioners in that time who drew inspiration from Paulo Freire. She describes how teaching in the 1970s and 1980s was so different to today. Back then teachers were encouraged to negotiate the curriculum with students. Bu…
From the viewpoint of Akademie Remscheid, a leading provider of further education courses involving education through play, this article presents the facets of the phenomenon of play as relevant to education and illustrates them using several examples of play that can be applied to adult education. The focus is on group games which can be played using simple materials. The central fields of learning targeted by play are identified as social skills, perception, expression, creativity and problem…
