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Beim Lernen spielen emotionale Prozesse eine große Rolle. Ergebnisse einer Befragung von erwachsenen Lernenden zeigen, dass gerade kooperative Lernformen positive Emotionen wie Freude hervorrufen und Lernmotivation und Lernerfolg erhöhen, so die Autorin und der Autor.
Ein Blick auf die Begriffsgeschichte von Lust, Spaß und Freude offenbart Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten der Bedeutungen. Der Autor verdeutlicht, dass die Lust und der Spaß am Lernen sinnvoll sein können, Freude aber wichtiger für pädagogische Überlegungen ist, weil sie nicht kurzlebig ist, sondern existenziellen Charakter hat – und auch Krisen- und Leiderfahrungen integrieren kann.
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.
The need for counselling and counselling processes among students in the humanities and social sciences In the area of adult education, learning counselling assumes the role of a support function for self-guided learning. University students must also structure and plan their learning process, even though many of these students are unable to develop sufficient learning skills due to their previously limited learning experience. Learning counselling as a tool in the learning process could fil…
Sites and trajectories of learning disconnected from schooling and traditional training are discussed against the background of a new scientification of work related to the shift towards an information technological mode of production. This scientification is rooted in a new relation of theory and practice at work. Accordingly, workers play a new strategic role in work processes: they have to optimize procedures, define and search for reasonable objectives, reflect on methods and strategies of …
The "Green Series" introduces reliable knowledge, current topics and didactic methods, which were tested in other fields, to adult education specialists. All volumes are designed from the action perspective, convey application-oriented formulas, and set standards based on the state of research, They contribute to competence and quality development in practical adult education.
Familienbildung ist mit ihrer »doppelten Verankerung« in Sozialer Arbeit und Erwachsenenbildung in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Fürsorge und emanzipatorischer Bildung angesiedelt. Das Heft beleuchtet dieses Spannungsfeld und betrachtet die Bedingungen und die verschiedenen Herausforderungen für die Familienbildung aus erwachsenenpädagogischer Perspektive.
This article presents the programme “Football for development”, which like the other ASA programmes of InWEnt allows young adults to take part in development policy educational work in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Southeast Europe for three months. The projects establish a regional educational and cultural programme using people’s love of football. At the same time, the participants from Germany develop an appreciation for experience from the “South”, helping dispel the traditional image of …
This assumption does not seem plausible at first glance, but rather absurd instead. The regular manifestation of modern age as a knowledge-based society on the one hand as well as the consensual acceptance of the appeal for lifelong learning on the other hand, create the opposite of an image in which the pedagogical aspect of continuing education has been lost. The author argues that learners are increasingly left unsupported, lifelong learning has become more fiction than reality and continui…
Intergenerational learning can be considered as a chance for institutions of adult education. Besides explicitly planned courses for different generations, intergenerational learning opportunities also take place incidentally in the educational work in seminars and courses, when the participants belong to different age groups. In both cases, the question arises how to arrange those courses didactically in order to support intergenerational learning processes. Based on systematic considerations …
