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Das Heft dokumentiert die Beiträge der Jahrestagung 1999. Neben dem Einführungsvortrag sind die Referate aus den folgenden Arbeitsgruppen vertreten: 1: Internationale Diskussion und Kooperation 2: Lernen und Arbeiten in Europa 3: Internationalität als kontinuierlicher Bezugsrahmen von Erwachsenenbildung 4: Entwicklung von Studium und Lehre in internationaler Perspektive
Die Lesegesellschaft ist eine Organisationsform literarisch interessierter Bürger im 18. Und 19. Jahrhundert. Sie kann als eine frühe Form der Erwachsenenbildung gesehen werden. Trägergruppe der Vereine war das Bürgertum. Bis zu 600 Lesegesellschaften mit 50.000 Mitgliedern werden für den Zeitraum von 1780 bis 1848 in Deutschland angenommen. Der idealtypische Aufbau umfasste: Bibliothek mit Ausrichtung auf aktuelle Literatur und Periodika, Zeitschriften und Zeitungen; Leseräume mit festen Öffnu…
Current political strategy to reform career guidance systems in Europe is regulated by subtle practices. Using the governmentality perspective, the purpose of this article is to make sense, in theoretical terms, of governmental reason and mechanisms in reshaping of career guidance systems. The investigation draws attention to mechanisms and practices such as monitoring and evaluation which indirectly operate in the policy process to make career guidance systems amenable for management. Drawing …
Weaving the ‘carpet of memories’: a zigzag movement between association and knowledge This article presents a didactical strategy in the form of »zigzag learning« which works on the basis of a constant linkage between free associative learning elements (sporadic learning) with a logically structured content (systematic learning). A »carpet of memory« is woven in this zigzag movement which is propitious for learning efficacy. The strategy is presented using an example from school biology cla…
Equality of professional and academic education? Results of comparisons according to the “Oldenburger Anrechnungsmodell” It is intended to strengthen the permeability of the educational system by taking into account professional qualifications for academic studies. The article describes an appropriate instrument, developed as a model project, to measure levels of learning units which is being used for comparisons between professional and academic qualifications.
Aspects of the “Established Outsider Figuration” in continuing vocational training Learning groups involving participants of different origins The main focus of the present paper is on continuing training courses attended by both indigenous and immigrant participants. What potential influences such participant structure on teaching may have is the subject of investigation. This reveals that in courses involving participants of mixed origin, under certain conditions, a constellation between …
