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This article explains what paths adults can opt for in order to acquire a reflexive understanding of time while not being content with a purely goal-oriented, “maximising” improvement in time management. Ms. Hribernik adopts Holzkamp’s approach to first of all describe what such “learning to understand time“ needs to involve before then identifying learning possibilities from an Austrian perspective – possibilities which she sees above all in books, but also in lecture events and the activities…
Interest and Learning This article presents an overview of the so-called educational-psychological theory of interest and demonstrates its relevance for the processes and results of learning. Following this theoretical approach, interest behaviour can be described as a relation between person and object. It is accompanied by self-determination, positive emotions and a strong personal relation to certain objects or actions. Advantages of interest-motivated learning appear in improving cogniti…
Organisation psychological profit for adult education using the example of "quality" In this contribution organisation psychological theory concepts and empirical methods are used for the current problem of educational institutions of providing a "quality proof" – in the sense of the implementation of quality management systems -, in order to maintain the continuity of their promotion. Before, the organisational psychology is sketched in its extension level, its methods and its reception beh…
Anlass für dieses Themenheft ist die derzeit zu beobachtende Entwicklung politischer Konfliktlinien, die Auswirkungen auf Deutschland zeitigen könnten. Konflikte begegnen dem Menschen jeden Tag – nicht nur auf politischer und gesellschaftlicher, sondern auch auf zwischenmenschlicher Ebene. Doch was sind Konflikte eigentlich? Welche existieren innerhalb der Erwachsenenbildung? Und wie kann man lernen, sie zu bearbeiten?
Im Rahmen des BMBF-Projekts „EdAge – Bildungsverhalten und -interessen Älterer“ sind das Weiterbildungsverhalten und die Weiterbildungsinteressen der 45- bis 80-Jährigen in einem integrierten Forschungsansatz erhoben worden, der quantitativ-repräsentative und qualitativ-explorative Untersuchungsbausteine verbindet. Damit konnten zahlreiche bislang ungeklärte Fragen beantwortet werden: • Wie stark partizipieren Ältere an Weiterbildung und welche Variablen prägen ihr Bildungsverhalten? • Was …
„Click and Type“ – new ways into the empirical practice On theory and practice of online researches It is still relatively unsettled what online research resp. online questionaires are and what effects these instruments have on the entire research process. On the basis of different sources and experiences from own projects this contribution goes into the matter of the single einzelnen effects online research from different perspectives, such as e. g. the options of figuration, the warranty…
The dissertation analyses the contribution of a social space research perspective to the understanding of (non-)participation of groups of less well-educated individuals in organized further education. Both, the theoretical as well as the methodological framing are defined by a social space perspective. In a substudy of the project “Learning in Social Quarters – Significance of Social Space for Further Education”, at the German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Center for Lifelong Learnin…
Gesellschaft und Bildung brauchen einen neuen Umgang mit der Zeit: Obwohl in der beschleunigten Gesellschaft allenthalben Zeitgewinne auf Kommunikations- oder Reisewegen zu verzeichnen sind, ist der subjektiv empfundene Zeitdruck nicht gesunken, im Gegenteil. Das Heft bietet zeittheoretische, bildungstheoretische und didaktische Perspektiven von Hartmut Rosa, Peter Faulstich, Andreas Dörpinghaus, Joachim Hasebrook u. a. Stichworte aus dem Inhalt sind »Effektivität« und »Effizienz«, aber auch »M…
