The relationship between childhood education and adult learner characteristics

Adult readers making sense of picture stories: a contrastive case study

Parents' learning in family literacy: a mixed-methods evaluation

Serving adults who have difficulty reading: challenges faced by U.S. adult education administrators

Beyond benchmarks: Exploring views of success among adult basic education learners

Editorial

Investigating prison factors related to literacy and numeracy skills of incarcerated adults

Lebenslange Lerner

The following article focuses the neglected relation between identity and learning by reconstructing foreign language learning efforts by adults. In spite of educational policy’s proclamation of (continuous) lifelong learning, real learning processes are characterised 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 eviden…

»Die Chancen der Oralität nutzen«

Perspektivenwechsel

Teaching and learning situations are only super ficially described as transfer of knowledge. Beneath that surface complex processes of understanding influence the teacher-learner as well as the learner-learner interaction. Learners bring previous knowledge, experiences and attitudes into the classroom which may facilitate but also inhibit learning; they are not usually invited to express their beliefs, doubts and expectations and make them part of their individual learning prcoesses. The author…