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Taking demographical development as a starting point, Turek identifies functions of political education. It should help to avoid the »clash of generations «. Demographical change, however, is only one of several trends: the change from modern industrial society towards a transnational technological society calls for a new »contract across generations«. Political education initialises a future-oriented selfremodelling of society and thus becomes an investment into its human resource…
Research activities in adult education are currently only partially visible and dispersed across numerous data sources. This report examines existing information resources and identifies limitations in terms of completeness, accessibility and technical interoperability. To improve the long-term visibility of research and provide a reliable basis for research on the discipline itself, existing infrastructures should be more closely interconnected, persistent identifiers such as ORCID systematica…
Lehr-Lern-Forschung hat in den Erziehungswissenschaften in den letzten Jahren wieder eine stärkere Aufmerksamkeit gefunden. Ursächlich erkennbar ist dabei vor allem zweierlei: einerseits die heftige Debatte über die Leistungsfähigkeit des Bildungssystems anlässlich der Ergebnisse der PISA-Studie, andererseits die neuen technischen Möglichkeiten der Neurowissenschaften, anhand Bild gebender Verfahren intrahumane Vorgänge bei Lernprozessen beobachten und nach-weisen zu können. Verbunden damit sin…
Der REPORT thematisiert Netzwerke unter vier Aspekten, die in der Diskussion aktuell bedeutsam sind: die Beziehung zwischen Netzwerken und soziologisch orientierten Institutionalisierungsdebatten, die systemreflexive Evaluation von Netzwerkarbeit, die konkrete Realisierung von Netzwerken mit Bezug auf verbindende Themen und die Problematik der Verstetigung und Nachhaltigkeit von Netzwerken. Die Beiträge des Hefte nehmen Bezug auf die laufende wissenschaftliche Diskussion, aber auch auf die konk…
Very old people in particular live in a »mode of bidding farewell«. The »dictates of death« gains increasing importance in this phase of life compared to the »dictates of life«. The author shows how activation and a resource-oriented approach can even help persons suffering from dementia or dying persons to experience their existence as something that they can actively shape. This yields important educational insight in the training of medical specialists, voluntary workers and family members.
Thematisch widmet sich dieses Heft den Messverfahren in der Weiterbildung. Diese lassen sich auf verschiedenen Ebenen wiederfinden. Da Kompetenzorientierung in der bildungspolitischen Diskussion derzeit eine zentrale Rolle spielt, soll eine Fragestellung darauf abheben zu erkunden, wie (formell oder informell) erworbene Kompetenzen dokumentiert und zertifiziert werden können. Eine andere Frage soll den Möglichkeiten nachgehen, wie die Beteiligung an Weiterbildung gemessen wird. Auf organisation…
The article deals with cooperation under the perspective of governance from an organisational view. According to the variety forms of cooperation in the field of adult education, cooperation can be seen as a medium that adult educational organisations can use for their reproduction and coordination in different institutional environment. Based on empirical findings from a case study, it can be shown that organisations initiate cooperation for collecting resources and legitimation. So, organisat…
The Future Workshop was originally developed for citizen groups with limited resources who wanted a say in the decision making process. It is a technique meant to shed light on a common problematic situation, to generate visions about the future, and to discuss how these visions can be realised. The paper describes the origin of the method. The methodological steps (phases) of the method are explained and in the second part there is a discussion of the strengths and weakness of the approach gu…
Biography and Education Biographical aspects are coming increasingly under the focus of teaching-learning and educational research in the context of international comparative studies and the debate over self-organised and self-guided learning. Different theoretical approaches are selected and current empirical findings in the area of biographical research are presented in this issue in order to shed light on the interrelationship between education and biography.
