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Tendencies towards individualization have led to a pluralization of situations, phases and styles of living. Disengagement with reference to course participants manifests itself in the diversification of the group of course participants as far as their life situation (vertical disengagement), life phase (temporal disengagement) and style of living (horizontal disengagement) are concerned. The concept of social milieus as an integrative approach can represent tendencies of liberation and can a…
"Adult education students" as subject of the participation research After a short introduction into the questions and methods of a research project of participation research at the further education Danube University Krems, a partial result for motivation structure is sketched.
Im vorliegenden Heft werden in gebotener Kürze einige neuere Ansätze und Ergebnisse der Teilnahme- und Motivationsforschung in der Weiterbildung vorgestellt. Die Zahl der Forschungsarbeiten zum Thema ist insgesamt begrenzt, auch wenn es noch einige weitere Arbeiten außer den hier präsentierten gibt: Teilnahme-, Beteiligungs- und Motivationsforschung sind in der Regel empirisch aufwändige und teure Verfahren. Umso wichtiger ist es, dass hier durchaus neuere, interessante Ergebnisse vorliegen.
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…
In her dissertation, the author collected and evaluated self-assessments of language study travellers travelling with Carl Duisburg Centres. 90 participants were questioned quantitatively. In addition to the expected competence improvement of foreign languages, the flexibility and mobility as well as intercultural competences were increased. The competence acquisition in connection to the participants’ individual ages was investigated in a supplementary qualitative research.
The report presents first results of a study dealing with the whereabouts of former participants of literacy classes. Assuming courses of adult education have a beginning and an end, the authors pursue the phenomena of participants sojourning permanently at adult education courses. Taken data material into account, the reconstruction of possible reasons for staying in the courses finally leads to the demand for an initial consulting – analogical to the starting and learning consultation in the …
The demographic change and the growing demand of skilled workers in Germany puts workers with migration background in the focus of interest in politics, economy, research and, increasingly, of adult education. The following article analyses empirically the relationship between the socio-cultural determinants, which are theoretically embedded in Esser’s model of social integration, and the participation in further vocational education of working adults with a migration background in Germany on t…