Research
We explore how adult education can be made inclusive, digital and effective.
Services
Digital tools, specialist portals and data – for teachers, researchers, students and interested parties.
Institute
We offer research, transfer and infrastructure for lifelong learning.
On the long journey to a Benefit Contributive Scientific Didactics Horst Siebert and Johannes Weinberg’s texts on didactic issues of adult education which will be looked at closely, cover almost the whole publication period of REPORT. Against this background, the author addresses the question of what contributions the selected texts and, thus the journal itself, made to the development of adult education science and which discussions within the discipline are to be found in it. The author p…
More popular than its reputation Learning success controls in adult education The research project called “LeKo“ of the European Federation for Catholic Adult Education (KBE), which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research has analysed how learning success controls can be included in all areas of adult education and it has analysed which attitudes participants have towards it. The first empirical results are presented here. Thereafter the pedagogical-instrumental value is …
Reflections on the current quality debate from a subject scientific perspective The subject scientific theory perspective presented in this contribution makes learning actions from the viewpoint of the learning subjects a subject of discussion. Learning is thereby not composed as a dependent variable of teaching, but as subjective justified acting, that is based on interests, needs and sensitivities which are developed by the learners against the background of societal significance constella…
Sustainable learning Insights into a panel study under the category “emotionality in learning processes" After clarification of the term "sustainable learning", it is discussed by means of empirical material of a present research project to what extent emotional factors play a role in sustainable learning.
Ausgehend von dem gesellschaftlichen Befund eines zunehmend entstrukturierten Lebenslaufs wird in dem Beitrag der Bedarf nach einer (erwerbs)biographischen Gestaltungs- und Steuerungskompetenz betont, die auch neue Bildungs- und Beratungsleistungen notwendig machen.
In dem Beitrag wird begründet, dass das Einbeziehen von nichtbewussten Lernformen - implizites Wissen - in institutionalisierten Lernprozesse eine sinnvolle Ergänzung zum bewussten Lernen darstellt.
Der Beitrag untersucht wie erwachsenenpädagogische Ansätze der Beratung in einer Beratungssendung mit dem Schwerpunkt Lebenshilfe im Fernsehen aufgegriffen werden und interpretiert diese massenmedialen Angebote mit Begriffen der Erwachsenenpädagogik kritisch.
