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This contribution suggests a reconstruction of didactic behavior in the context of adult education. Didactics is perceived as a specific kind of practice that can be analyzed with respect to its immanent significances. Thus, criteria of adult education didactics can be identified. These criteria are not only empirically found aspects concerning the conditions of success. Incorporated challenges concerning disciplining, impositions of teaching and authority matter as well. Notwithstanding adult …
In the educational facilities of the State Sports Associations of the Bundesländer, open adult education is implemented which serves the goals of formation of personality and enlightenment, furthers maturity, and cultivates social competences, and which is - albeit decreasingly - publicly funded. More than 3.000 full-time and part-time pedagogical staff are employed in these facilities. Nearly 15.000 courses for about 300.000 participants are held. But this is not the only field within sports …
Dr. Klaus Bednarz ist seit 1983 Moderator und Leiter der Redaktion des Fernsehmagazins „Monitor“. Zuvor war er lange Jahre Korrespondent des Deutschen Fernsehens z.B. in Warschau und Moskau. Für seine aufklärerischen Berichterstattungen erhielt er u.a. den Adolf-Grimme-Preis. Im DIE-Gespräch mit Herbert Bohn und Rüdiger Preißer spricht Bednarz über polarisierende Aufklärung und Information in Medien und Bildung, über soziale und kulturelle Polarisierungen zwischen Ost und West. Für ihn ist der …
