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This article is concerned with the discourse and policy of lifelong learning in Europe after 1973. It deals with the question whether the 1980s have to be seen as a period of diminishing interest in lifelong learning or as a formative phase of so called neoliberalism. Applying a corpus lingustic approach, it analyses the official documents of the European Communities as archived in the database EUR-Lex. The results are interpreted as the expression of a new European governance regime called “te…
Georg von Wedekind (1761-1831) formulierte in der nachfolgenden Ansprache von 1792 zentrale Lernaufgaben- und Lernfelder für die Bürger einer Republik.
The opening up of higher education and the development of higher education insti-tutions as institutionalized and organized settings for lifelong learning has been focused in educational policy and scientific discourse for more than ten years. Consequently, research at the interface between further education and higher education research at international, European and national levels has been intensified in order to disclose framework conditions, forms and challenges regarding current and expec…
In Nordrhein-Westfalen gibt es eine Vielzahl von spielbegeisterten Seniorentheatergruppen, die eine große Bandbreite ambitionierter Amateurtheaterarbeit zeigen. Allerdings findet die Seniorentheaterszene – anders als das Kinder- und Jugendtheater – im öffentlichen Bewusstsein bisher nur wenig Beachtung und Anerkennung. Und dies, obwohl ältere Menschen aktuell Gegenstand gesellschaftlicher und wissenschaftlicher Diskurse sind, wenn es beispielsweise um Renten- und Gesundheitsdebatten geht. Vor d…
The relation between sustainability and widening access to adult learners in higher education is both well comprehensible and highly vague. Accordingly, and following the arguments of Seghezzo (2009) and Foster (2001), the paper aims to complement academic discourse on widening access of higher education by showing the benefit of using the concept of sustainability not merely as an operational measurement index or a learning topic content-wise. Rather, a different understanding of sustainabilit…
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 …
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