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For various reasons adult participation in lifelong learning does not measure up to expectations tied to the agenda of lifelong learning. The article suggests that adults relate learning activities to their conceptions of life stages. Therefore, participation in institutionalized continuing education must rather be linked to life-stage-dependant decisions based on sociocultural patterns than to the acceptance of lifelong learning in general. Specifically in the stage of professional life, these…
Grundbildung und Grundkompetenzen sind zentrale Voraussetzungen für gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe. weiter bilden nimmt die Veröffentlichung und Diskussion der PIAAC-Studie 2023 zum Anlass, die Situation in Deutschland zu beleuchten, Ergebnisse einzuordnen und Perspektiven für Praxis, Politik und Forschung aufzuzeigen.
The article focuses the question whether workforce literacy strategies in research and policies may tend to exclude relevant fields of literacy, which have emancipatory chances for participants, but which regularly fail in including low qualified or literate adults, namely the area of basic civic education. The relevance of basic civic education will be discussed using contemporary theories, which point at a crisis of democracy and explain this by the spread of income and capital and its legiti…
Lebensweltorientierung von Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung bedeutet auch, sich der Unterschiede der Lebenswelten von Lernenden und Lehrenden gewahr zu werden. Die reflektierte Auseinandersetzung mit dieser Unterschiedlichkeit ist pädagogisch voraussetzungsreich, dennoch aber, so der Autor, ein notwendiger Schritt einer weitergehenden Professionalisierung in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung.
The area of further teacher education is rarely explored in the German-speaking countries. The few existing studies primarily show one problem: The transfer of contents of further teacher education into lessons seems to be very difficult (transfer problem). Based on these findings, this research project deals with the question how effective vocational schools in the Canton of Zurich organise and implement their school-intern further teacher education. For this purpose the teaching staff of six …
The JDC (Defence and Citizenship Day) has become an essential element in the fight against illiteracy in France. It not only furnishes annual statistics for national, regional and local policy evaluation, but also identifies those young adults within a entire cohort (mostly 17–19) who need help with their literacy skills, so that they can be referred to by support organisations. It is difficult to assess very precisely the impact of post-JDC actions carried out by JDC partners. Neither the JDC…
Der Umgang mit Unsicherheiten, Mehrdeutigkeiten und Ambivalenzen stellt eine individuelle, gesellschaftliche und politische Herausforderung dar. Das Heft möchte Ambiguität und Ambivalenz in ihren verschiedenen Bezügen zur Erwachsenenbildung theoretisch und empirisch betrachten. Dabei soll der ambivalente Charakter von Ambiguität als bildungsproduktives und zuweilen auch -hinderliches Phänomen deutlich werden.
