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Maxims as a "soft" instrument for quality assurance in honorary organised adult education It is reported of the results of a model project of rural adult education that had the aim of developing close to practice quality criteria for honorary staff in this field.
Accessibility – A Didactic Challenge. Steps towards Inclusive Adult Education. Part III Based on the access rights to all public education, the author evaluates the dimensions of accessibility to be considered in planning and implementing inclusive adult educational programmes. Constructional prerequisites are brushed though the main focus is on the techniques of barrier-free communication which are micro-didactically described more critically as a “two sense approach”. The last paragraph re…
"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…
Striving for quality is at the core of pedagogical professionalism. Therefore the science of further education has to intervene in the quality discussion in two ways: Firstly, it must develop criteria by which systems of quality assurance can be compared and by which their appropriateness for the sector of further education can be evaluated. Secondly, it must inquire yet more persistently into the specifics of pedagogical quality and find out what further education science can contribute toward…
The 4th sector of education is dominated and directed by market economical criteria while government organized adult education and lifelong learning systems for active labour market policy only have an additional function. The author discusses alternatives by intervention of education policy and isolates three types of financing systems in countries of the European Union: the market regime, the bureaucratical regime, and the mixed regime. Generally he realizes a trend towards a growing relevanc…
Die Gründung der „Hamburgischen Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der Künste und nützlichen Gewerbe (Patriotische Gesellschaft)“ erfolgte nach englischem und französischem Vorbild. Im Laufe ihrer fast 250 jährigen Geschichte haben die Patriotische Gesellschaft und ihre Mitglieder eine große Zahl von Innovationen und Gründungen angeregt.
Die Ursprünge des Salons reichen ins 17. Jahrhundert zurück. Der Salon lässt sich als Zusammenkunft von Adligen, Schriftstellern, Künstlern, Gelehrten in privaten Empfangsräumen vornehmer schöngeistiger Damen beschreiben. Die Konversation als Stil wurde hier besonders entwickelt. Es war eine europäische Erscheinung mit Schwerpunkten in Frankreich, England und Deutschland. Salons können als nicht institutionalisierte Lernorte mit einer stark selbst organisierten Lernkultur verstanden werden.
Rahel Varnhagen von Ense (1771-1833) war Begründerin von einem der wichtigsten deutschen Salons. Sie bemühte sich die zeittypischen Beschränkungen weiblicher Bildungsmöglichkeiten zu umgehen und auch die gesellschaftliche Ausgrenzung der Juden zu überwinden. Sie gehörte der Epoche der Romantik an und war Teil der Aufklärung.
In international comparative analyses on further education the clustering of countries is widely established. Frequently, such typologies are derived heuristically, referring to theoretical approaches or single indicators, which make it difficult to obtain a systematic overview. This contribution presents the main arguments of two theoretical approaches (welfare state regimes Esping-Andersen 1990 and varieties of capitalism Hall/Soskice 2001) that refer to indicators on the macro level for expl…
The National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) reflects upon adult learning from the perspective of a life profile. The article describes the system and methodological approach of the NEPS with a special focus on the group of adults. The education and employment history as well as the consequent competence development of the adult working age population is analyzed. Overall, 60,000 people are surveyed in the NEPS including more than 11,000 adults. First data is already available to the expert publ…
