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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.
Ubuntu ist ein Konzept des gemeinwesenorientiertem kultursensiblem Lernens. Es nimmt die afrikanischen Traditionen des Lernens auf und ist auf die Errichtung prosozialer Gemeinschaften fokussiert. Genutzt werden sollen dabei die Ressourcen, die jeweils lokal zur Verfügung stehen und ein nützliches Lernen ermöglichen. Das Konzept wird von antikolonialen Intellektuellen seit Anfang der 1980er Jahre vertreten.
Konfuzius war Gelehrter und Begründer des Konfuzianismus, Erziehungsphilosoph und Lehrer. Dem lebenslangen Lernen kommt nach Konfuzius ein zentraler Stellenwert zu. Nach ihm macht erst das Lernen den Menschen zum Menschen.
The contribution reports central thoughts of the American psychologist Csikszentmihalyi from the book “FLOW“, and it sharpens the statements on the reality of learners and teachers. “Flow“ stands for the “optimum experience“. Therewith Csikszentmihalyi indicates a feeling of high spirits, of deeply felt joy that lasts long and that occurs when body and soul of a person is strained to limits in the voluntary endeavour to achieve something difficult and something valuable. In this condition, orde…
North-west passages between body, emotion and cognition in pedagogy On the unity and difference of perceiving, feeling, thinking and imagination powers in learning- and educational processes Setting out from the point of different newly theory approaches, especially in the integrative therapy, the contribution makes the holistic way of learning- and educational processes a subject of discussion.
Virtual interaction or virtual silence? Setting out from the point of her study on resisting learning in the internet and a short clarification of her conception of learning, the author explores substantiation samples for the virtual silence in interactive situations when learning with the medium internet.
Auf KI basierende Lernbegleiter bieten die Möglichkeit einer individuellen Unterstützung von Lernenden. Welche Chancen diese Dialogsysteme bieten, aber auch, welche Herausforderungen sie mit sich bringen, zeigen die Autorinnen und der Autor anhand ihrer Erfahrungen in der Entwicklung des »StudyBuddy«.
This article is concerned with the discourse and policy of lifelong learning in Europe after 1973. It deals with the question whether the 1980s have to be seen as a period of diminishing interest in lifelong learning or as a formative phase of so called neoliberalism. Applying a corpus lingustic approach, it analyses the official documents of the European Communities as archived in the database EUR-Lex. The results are interpreted as the expression of a new European governance regime called “te…
