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The article provides a systematizing overview of contemporary methodological approaches and results of research on guidance and counselling. As well qualitative as quantitative approaches will be explored and concerning its insight located. Different but also complementary findings become visible. At the end, it will be argued in favour of a further elaboration of research on guidance and counselling in adult education. Therefore, it should be looked for a mutual relation between studies and a …
Seen before the backdrop of adult education being a necessary moral practice, the limited presence of ethical reflections in research and practice on adult education may surprise. This article aims at presenting an overview of pondering on such questions in recent years. Due to the small number of contributions to this issue, the author will include international and school related research as well. Thus, the article will open the view for innovative research aspects and projects stimulating …
Dieses Heft widmet sich dem Thema "Dialoge": gesellschaftlich notwendigen Dialogen, Dialogfähigkeit aus konstruktivistischer Sicht und sprachlichen Konstruktionen von Wirklichkeit, dem Geschlechterdialog nach dem postfeministischen Arrangement, der Notwendigkeit von Dialogen zwischen den Generationen. Neben dem Dialog zwischen Menschen aus Ost- und Westdeutschland und zwischen in Deutschland lebenden Ausländern und Deutschen werden auch virtuelle Dialogformen und dafür notwendige Kompetenzen th…
Eine gute ökonomische Grundbildung kann dazu beitragen, individuelle Problemlagen zu bewältigen und auch gesellschaftliche (Folge-)Kosten zu vermeiden. Vor dem Hintergrund des feststellbaren Bedeutungszuwachses ökonomischer Kenntnisse und Kompetenzen in der Bevölkerung einerseits und der diesbezüglich defizitären Forschungs- und Datenlage andererseits hat das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) eine Forschungswerkstatt zum Thema „Ökonomische Grundbildung für Erwachsene“ (ÖGBE) in…
“Precarious forms of work”, “wages near the poverty level” and “demand for minimum wages” – these are key words reflecting the status of continuing education personnel and the concurrent debate. The report focuses on the equality of wages in continuing education, taking up the business economical concept of “proportional equality of wages” as a result of the various references to the current debate in the field of adult and continuing education. The principles of market conformity, equal qualif…
This article describes the “Dorfbildungstage” ("Village Education Days” as a specific instructional format widely used in the valleys of the autonomous Italian province of South Tyrol. The format's regional importance comes from the fact that it integrates an inter-ethnic factor. In these largely rural communities, where differences between ethnic groups are always in the foreground, the village education days form a culture whereby German and Italian ethnic groups shape village learning togeth…
