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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 …
Older people often lack the competences for the handling of digital media. This is problematic in a society which is more and more based on digital exchanges. Courses of continuing digital education for older people prove to be successful when they are embedded into their living environments. In this article, the author presents several of these educational formats.
The author presents findings of the project »S-Mobil 100«, which is aimed at supporting the mobility of senior citizens with new technologies. In addition, it outlines the learning process of the elderly in handling new technologies.
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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…
