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Aus der Lernforschung wissen wir: Das Erlernen komplexer geistiger Prozesse bildet das Gehirn anhand von Strategien nach, die es beim Erlernen motorischer Prozesse erfolgreich verankern konnte. Oder anders: Wer gut jongliert, hat gute Chancen, Projekte erfolgreich zu steuern. Doch dies ist nicht der einzige Zusammenhang von Lernen und Bewegung. Im Heft erwarten Sie Lern-Perspektiven der Neurowissenschaften und der Erlebnispädagogik, die auf körperlicher Bewegung gründen. Daneben darf es aber a…
Movement and experience as the breeding ground of learning From the perspective of experiential pedagogic the two authors develop an outline for experience and action-oriented practice in adult education. They examine in detail the hypotheses confirmed by brain research that the body is the actual site of human learning. This allows them to create the basis for a didactical setting conducive to learning which is heavily based on physical body-related experience in nature and in the communit…
Theme networks and the systematic generation of the new A systematization using the example of the learning regions Meta structures in the form of content orientated “topic net groups” offers a possibility for communication and exchange between the regional projects in the program “Learning Regions – Providing Support for Networks”. Thereby they build a field of communication in which practice problems and their solutions appear and therefore they can be brought to discussion. Thus topic n…
System reflexive evaluation of networks and network programmes A methodological perspective To contextualise and substantiate evaluation is a claim which the evaluation of the programme „Learning Regions – Providing Support for Networks” of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) formulates. But which basic approaches and proceedings are suitable to consolidate the item `networks` with suitable theoretical complexity and methodologically reflective evaluation? In this contr…
"Introduction into adult education“ Constitution of object and theory perspectives in the medium of a specific literature genre The contribution analyses in an observation of second order the specific method, with which the newly "introduction into adult education“ is constituted its object and thereby brings to bear a special perspectivity. The four analysed introductions make a topic of adult education as a double search move, as professional learning intercede, of learning as an institut…
Research on participation on the topic learning resistance A concept of participative research and its results The research methods and results from a subproject on learning resistance are introduced, which came into being in the framework of a research project of a Hamburg adult education institutions on self-directed learning and social milieus.
Nachgezeichnet werden die Potentiale der Konstruktivismus-Debatte für die (Erwachsenen) Pädagogik in den zwei Spannungsfeldern: Erkenntnis und Handeln und innerer und äusserer Systematik im Erwachsenenlernen.
