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The so-called Q-sorting operation is an unknown research method, hardly known as a pedagogically-oriented research method, typically used to compile complex responses and attitudes from a subjective perspective. The following article examines the question whether the Q-sorting methodology might also be implemented as a practical collection instrument to evaluate teacher beliefs in the context of professional development for educators. In particular, it will be examined whether an index formatio…
Was ist Bildungstechnologie, und was tun Bildungstechnologinnen und -technologen? Um diese Fragen zu beantworten, setzen sich die Autoren mit der Verortung der Disziplin Bildungstechnologie auseinander und nähern sich dem Praxisfeld durch eine Systematisierung ihrer Aufgabenfelder.
Looking at persons and at those active in organisations has forever been in the focus of psychological research on organisations. Monika Kil draws attention to the fact that pedagogical psychology, cognitive psychology and social psychology can also contribute towards a structuring of further education institutions that is conducive to learning. Developing a »learning culture « is one aspect of this. A review of further developments and findings opens up new dimensions for a discourse on organi…
Net based communication is changing business and private life and education and learning of adults as well. Important condition for using new chances by new information and communication technologies for learning processes is media competence. – The authors describe components of media competence as a pedagogical target including technical competence, communicative competence and the competence of coping with the information flood. Problems are restrictions of participation on net based communi…
Der Raum und das Lernen erwachsener Menschen stehen in einem engen, jedoch von Wissenschaft und Praxis der Erwachsenenbildung bislang weitgehend vernachlässigten Verhältnis. Dies hat zur Folge, dass die Architektur von Weiterbildungseinrichtungen Lehr-/ Lernprozesse oft nicht ausreichend unterstützt. Pädagogen und Architekten, so der Tenor der auf den folgenden Seiten versammelten Beiträge, müssen deshalb bereits bei den ersten Planungsprozessen bessere Dialog- und Kooperationsformen entwickeln…
The article focuses on the characteristics of the virtual seminar form of »online group learning«. The online programme »Marketing for Continuing Educators« , which is part of the correspondence course »Adult Education« by the Distance & Independent Studies Centre at the technical University of Kaiserslautern, indicates the course of seminars of this sort. The role and function of presenting this type of seminar is particularly analyzed. Also, critical issues such as the anonymity of individual…
The author gives a summary of accesses of generation overlapping didactics. Thereby he clusters the offers depending on whether one learns from each other, with each other or about each other. Starting from the generation perception the suspicion is trailed that the learning of the generations should be affected in terms of contemporary history and individual biography. Concrete implementation perspectives for intergenerational learning are only then possible, when a pattern is developed for th…
The paper is based upon a qualitative-empirical study in the field of basic education for adults (literacy, numeracy, language, and computer skills). The study is located in the andragogical research on teaching and learning. A constitutive characteristic of the examined basic skills courses is the variety of the participants. The variety is both, didactical challenge and potential, for it enables teaching and learning interactions. With interpreting some data examples the paper aims to show ho…
The phenomenon of disordered learning and the resistance against education are reconstructed as a result of purposeful educational determination. Both are collateral costs of institutionalized learning arrangements, at which can be worked anew with educational means on a higher level. Compared with informal and implicit learning, in contexts of formal learning there is a fair chance for resistance against exacting learning demands. So the competence of refusing education might be seen as a base…
