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The article presents the results of a DFG project on program planning of workplace learning, which was conducted between June 2013 and May 2015 at the Department of Adult Education/Continuing Education at the Humboldt University of Berlin. The central questions were: a) How do internal and external stakeholders influence the program planning and training design in the context of workplace learning (targeted audiences, objectives, contents, didactic fields of action)? b) Which specific forms of …
The paper raises the question of how inclusion, in the sense of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, is operationalized in institutional learning settings for adults. It presents findings of a qualitative pilot study. Based on a relational theory of space, the findings elicit a conceptual model of the architecture of inclusion at public places of learning for adults. The model illuminates the way social space is constituted in and by the actions of professionals, and th…
Bei Erscheinen dieses Hefts geht die Corona-Pandemie in den zehnten Monat, und vieles bleibt unwägbar, auch in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung. In diesem Sinne sind die Beiträge dieser Ausgabe von weiter bilden mehr ein Offenlegen von Tiefenstrukturen als eine reine Bestandsaufnahme der Situation, geprägt von den Eindrücken des gesellschaftlichen Lockdowns. In Kenntnis der Beiträge sprachen Herausgeber Peter Brandt und Redakteur Jan Rohwerder Mitte August und Ende Ok-tober mit der Redaktions…
The “Boulevard of Thoughts 50 plus” (“Denk-Raum 50 plus”) is a successful example of self-determined learning in old age. Drawing on this example, the author discusses advantages of self-determined learning and shows success factors of such a format.
In der Gesellschaft der Bundesrepublik zeichnen sich neue soziale Spaltungen ab. Sie betreffen die gesellschaftliche Einbindung der Menschen und die Qualitäten ihrer gesellschaftlichen Teilhabe, somit die materiellen Grundlagen von Demokratie. Weiterbildung muss angesichts solcher Exklusionstendenzen ihre Positionen neu bestimmen, wenn sie an ihrem Ziel festhalten will, gesellschaftliche Teilhabemöglichkeiten durch Bildung zu erweitern. Der vorliegende Band trägt zu dieser Positionsbestimmung b…
The "Blue Series" is the DIE's most traditional series of books. It is aimed at researchers and students of adult education as well as academically interested practitioners. Scientific papers on a theoretical and empirical base provide access to adult education research and enhance the transfer of knowledge between practice and research. Over the past 30 years, it contributed significantly to the discipline of adult education.
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…
This article discusses the question how knowledge may be used for new or alternative learning decisions and in how far the post-modern understanding of “knowledge” is involved in this process. More precisely, it is discussed how organisations and individuals use knowledge as a result of learning in general and with respect to continuing learning decisions and how expectations and evaluations regarding the use of continuing education are placed in cultures of learning. The argument is based on l…
Starting out with deliberations on the relationship between the course of life and the constructed biography of an individual, this article intends to elucidate the contexts of learning as they are treated in various (inter-)national studies, by focusing on the individual’s course of life. To clarify which methodological design is most appropriate to study processes of (lifelong) learning and education, it then seems necessary to highlight a particular methodological approach. This leads, ultim…
