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To work beyond the age of 65 is a process that will soon become an economic and social necessity in Europe. A growing group of persons already work beyond the legal retirement age in Germany and Europe. Therefore, it is interesting to look at the characteristics and motivation of this group. Investigating four case studies from persons working beyond the legal retirement age in Germany, the following findings were made. Most commonly known reasons and factors for longer working have been confir…
The article presents a number of photographs of the Franz Pöggeler estate, which is preserved in the archive of the German Institute of Adult Education. The historic pictures vary between ecclesiastic-monumental architectural photography and simple snap shots and illustrate the differences of learning and teaching arrangements in the history of adult education centres. Even though the author regards the photographs as evidence of a mentality-historically obsolete period, they still indicate the…
Ein einheitliches Recht des lebenslangen Lernens gibt es nicht. Aber eine Vielzahl von bildungsbereichspezifischen Rechts- und Verwaltungsvorschriften, von denen einige die Weiterbildung betreffen. Das Heft trägt die neueren Entwicklungen auf Landes-, Bundes- und europäischer Ebene zusammen und bettet die Erkenntnisse zum Recht ein in eine Diskussion um öffentliche und private Pflichten für das lebenslange Lernen.
Theoretical basics of a gender equal didactics Substantiations and consequences The contribution makes a subject of discussion the significance of the category gender for theoretical basics of didactical approaches in adult education. Structural gender characterize the adult education research, the institutions, the educational situations, the educational apprehension as well as the people participating with the educational actions and the worlds of their lives. These conditions for outco…
“The Ideal World of the Bildungbürger and Rural “Borderline Experiences” Programmes of German adult education centres in 1957 In this article course programmes of German adult education centres in 1957 are examined from the perspectives of four time-witnesses of German social history during the Cold War: (1) What memories are stimulated among time-witnesses as to what the courses were really like? (2) What approach is used in the cover text? (3) What differences can one find when comparing th…
Adult education and its terminology This article focuses on the interaction between the history of ideas and adult education. The question of the disciplinary and the individual self-conception, which can be extended by an approach from the history of the understanding of concepts, is central to this consideration. After discribing the possible usage of general terminology it offers different perspectives and levels for adult educational analysis. As a conclusion it discusses to which extent…
Die erste Ausgabe der Quartalszeitschrift REPORT enthält die Dokumentation der Fachtagung der Kommission Erwachsenenbildung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft aus dem Vorjahr. Die Fachtagung des vergangenen Jahres fand im Herbst unter der Federführung der neuen Sprecherin der Kommission, Christine Zeuner, an der Universität Flensburg statt und war dem Thema Milieus, Arbeit, Wissen: Realität in der Erwachsenenbildung gewidmet. In diesem Band werden die Vorträge aus fünf Arbei…
Looking ahead – 30-year REPORT The 30th anniversary issue of the REPORT reviews ideas, research findings and articles from a present-day perspective and extrapolates these into the future. To this end, texts from the two founding editors, Horst Siebert and Johannes Weinberg, have subsumed articles under six different topical rubrics and reread these from a present-day perspective from thirty years of REPORT. The articles are prefaced and concluded by two interviews respectively providing a ret…
