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Historische wie aktuelle Initiativen zur Nutzung von jeweils „neuen“ Medien für Zwecke von Bildung und Lernen werden hier hinsichtlich ihrer Erfolgschancen und Auswirkungen untersucht und diskutiert.
Accessibility – A Didactic Challenge. Steps towards Inclusive Adult Education. Part III Based on the access rights to all public education, the author evaluates the dimensions of accessibility to be considered in planning and implementing inclusive adult educational programmes. Constructional prerequisites are brushed though the main focus is on the techniques of barrier-free communication which are micro-didactically described more critically as a “two sense approach”. The last paragraph re…
Political Adult Education and its Crises Political education is often attested as being somewhat critical. As was the case of the twentieth publication of REPORT in 1987 in which the main focus – even though at the time it was not identified as such – was on this theme. The issue commenced with a contribution from Horst Siebert; this contribution shall now be the starting point to explore the highlights on the development of the past years and to determine its positioning. This will ensue in…
Ausgehend von der unterschiedlichen Rolle von Regionen in europäischen Staaten stellt Paolo Federighi die Frage nach dem Zusammenhang von Regionen und Demokratie, von Regionen und Nationalstaat sowie nach der Rolle der Region für die Bildungs- und Entwicklungschancen der Menschen. Lokales Denken, regionale Politik und globale Sicht sind für ihn eine Einheit. Aufgabe der Regionen ist es, die Lebensbedingungen für die Menschen in Richtung auf mehr Kultur und Bildung zu entwickeln sowie eine Poli…
The article discusses the chances of using a gerontological data base (Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adulthood, German Acronym: ILSE) for analyses in educational biography research: Learning to age tends to be the central category of this analyses. The article comments on the current debate of aging and education and expounds the problems of politically driven activation of elders and the programmatic turn in the discussion. In a second step the article elaborates on what terms it is …
