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Programmes for persons who are not acquainted with learning can only be successful if teaching and learning is understood as a dialogical process between trainer and participant. One of the major abilities participants should achieve during this process is to take over the responsibility for their own learning. The author describes tools developed in her own practical work: a set of questions designed as a framework for the negotiation of the individual learning project.
The report outlines the 50-year history of the statistics on adult education centres published by the German Institute of Adult Education and its predecessors since 1962. The chronology of events is depicted in a chart, whereas the tool‘s various characteristics, which generated key problems since the beginning and still do until today, are discussed in the text. The author fathoms future chances and challenges of input-oriented institutional statistics in a time with a tendency towards output …
Am 26. und 27. Juni 2002 richtete das DIE die Fachtagung „Qualitätsentwicklung in der Erwachsenenbildung“ aus. Die vorliegende Tagungsdokumentation nennt die Projektpräsentationen und Fachworkshops. Sie enthält Teile der Begrüßungsreden von E. Nuissl von Rein (DIE) und H. Westkamp (BMBF), gibt einleitende Beiträge und Kommentare von Experten in Auszügen wieder und endet mit den wichtigsten Schlussfolgerungen von Klaus Meisel (DIE). Meisel benennt die verschiedenen Ebenen, auf denen Qualitäts…