Beziehungsgeflechte in lokalen Institutionenlandschaften - Eine ethnographische und netzwerkanalytische Betrachtung von Sozialstrukturen in der Weiterbildung.

Professionalisierung durch selbstgesteuertes Lernen im Fernstudium.

Konstruktivistische Aspekte der Erwachsenenbildung.

Forschungsorientierungen im Kontext erwachsenenpädagogischer Transformationsprobleme

Transformationsprozesse im Institutionenspektrum der Erwachsenenbildung.

Weiterbildung als Sozialmanagement - Beispiel Suchtarbeit.

Kompetenz oder Berechtigung?

Competence or authorization? PISA – a challenge also for adult education and research PISA also provokes adult education and adult pedagogy to a new evaluation of the prerequisites of participation in adult education and the meaning of “making up for” by means of adult education, of a heterogenous programme which has received less attention since the reform of education. Therefore this contribution scetches the state of the art of the compensatory education for adults (basic education, scho…

Biographieszenarien Älterer in der zweiten Lebenshälfte

Biographical Orientations for Older People in Adult Education In times of demographic changes and an increasing flexibility of biographies, adult education is in need of adjusting its repertoire. General and highly standardized programmes alone do no longer fit the heterogeneity of its target groups. The article is based on two empirical studies – one focuses on individual management of work path, the other shows the importance of structuring time and activities to elder people. With these, …

Naturwissenschaften als konstitutives Element moderner Erwachsenenbildung

Natural Sciences as a Constitutive Element of Modern Adult Education Imparting natural scientific knowledge to a socially broad audience was already quite common in manifold forms before adult education as such was really constituted in the last third of the 19th century. Some of the questions raised when natural science spread in the 18th and 19th centuries are still or again relevant in the 21st century. This paper tries to demonstrate that notion in a summarized form on the basis of an ex…

Bildungsberatung für Migrantinnen und Migranten

Due to special legal status, differences in social structure, and fewer chances on the labor market, people with migration background are less successful in initial schooling and vocational training programs. They are also under-represented in the area of adult education. The role of continuing education counseling, therefore, is to inform immigrants interested in education of the many individual educational opportunities that are available, to purposefully remove educational barriers, and to p…