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God’s people as a learning community Biblical foundations of lifelong learning The article presents the around 2.500 year-old roots of a concept of lifelong (religious) learning which is being developed in the book Deuteronomium of the Hebrew Bibel. Learning is considered an existential self-realization of God’s people which encompasses not only ethics, but also history and constitutional law. With respect to the history of people’s duty to learn in Judaism, the author evaluates perspective…
Mit dieser Ausgabe legt das DIE eine Aktualisierung des nunmehr in 4. Auflage erscheinenden Porträts der Weiterbildung in Deutschland vor. Eingearbeitet wurde aktuelles Zahlenmaterial zu zentralen Bereichen der Weiterbildung in Deutschland, so u.a. zum Weiterbildungsangebot, zu Teilnehmenden, Institutionen und Personal. Zudem skizziert der Band die Geschichte der deutschen Erwachsenenbildung und informiert über rechtliche Grundlagen und Finanzierung. Vertreter/innen aus Wissenschaft, Bi…
The development of interest in adult education This article presents results of a project funded by the DFG on the development of interest in continuing and further education. We connect our work to most recent research on biographical genesis of interest and focus occuring during an individual’s participation in adult education. As theoretical approach we refer to the Munich theory of interest and the pragmatist approach. We empirically investigate the opportunities and limitations of a qua…
Religion and adult education The combination of "Religion and adult education" has conspicuously various facets, especially in practice. Religious adult education will be presented by means of examples of Christian, Islamic and Jewish adult education. But Religion is also subject matter of secular adult education and for that reason it will be considered separately in this context. An additional focus will be on the inevitable reference to religious aspects of intercultural adult education b…
Im ersten Quartal des Jahres veröffentlicht das Deutsche Institut für Erwachsenenbildung seinen Jahresbericht: Neben wichtigen Ereignissen des vergangenen Jahres werden dort die Tätigkeiten, Ergebnisse, Entwicklungen und haushaltstechnischen Daten des Instituts, seiner Programme und Projekte beschrieben.