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How can virtual spaces, digital media and its potential be utilised for cultural education programmes? The authors analyse the issue by looking at three good practice examples from adult education centres and point out the contributive effect of a reasonable and elaborate use of digital tools in cultural education for the participants’ digital education.
Die in dieser Auswahlbibliografie aufgeführte und zum Teil kommentierte Literatur soll als Ausgangspunkt für das weitergehende Selbststudium zum Thema offene Bildungsressourcen (Open Educational Resources, OER) dienen. Die Auswahl konzentriert sich vor allem auf Veröffentlichungen nach 2012, da die OER-Bewegung ab diesem Jahr durch den ersten OER-Weltkongress der UNESCO in Paris deutlich an Dynamik und wissenschaftlicher Aufmerksamkeit gewinnen konnte. Die Struktur der Bibliografie orientiert s…
The author presents first-hand and personal accounts of what popular education looks like in a classroom. Barbara Bee has had over 30 years teaching experience in adult education programs with poor and disadvantaged learners. She is regarded as one of the leading Australian practitioners in that time who drew inspiration from Paulo Freire. She describes how teaching in the 1970s and 1980s was so different to today. Back then teachers were encouraged to negotiate the curriculum with students. Bu…
Popular education is a term which has been used for a considerable time. At the outset, however, it should be pointed out that there are multiple perspectives, but they do not “speak” much to each other. There is a tendency to define popular education in narrow and formulaic terms, according to which tradition one is drawing on. I counter this by discussing four traditions and attempt to distil common features across the multiplicity.
The wide demand for physical education reflects a growing awareness of the value of physical activity in society as a whole. The concepts of comprehensive physical activity applied by institutions of adult education focus on physical coordination, strength, perseverance, stretching and the activation of persons with reduced physical capabilities. Institutions of adult education cooperate with other actors engaged in health promotion such as health insurance organisations. There is much common g…
Im Interview mit weiter bilden spricht sich die Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung, Anja Karliczek, für die Vernetzung bestehender digitaler Bildungsplattformen aus – und erteilt damit der aus dem MILLAKonzept stammenden Idee eines »Netflix für Bildung« eine Absage. Auch andere Vorhaben aus dem Feld der Bildungspolitik werden zurzeit unterschiedlich bewertet (s. die Beiträge zur Nationalen Weiterbildungsstrategie aus Sicht der Arbeitnehmer- und Arbeitgeberseite). Und manche Folgen kürzl…
