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Lesegesellschaften

Die Lesegesellschaft ist eine Organisationsform literarisch interessierter Bürger im 18. Und 19. Jahrhundert. Sie kann als eine frühe Form der Erwachsenenbildung gesehen werden. Trägergruppe der Vereine war das Bürgertum. Bis zu 600 Lesegesellschaften mit 50.000 Mitgliedern werden für den Zeitraum von 1780 bis 1848 in Deutschland angenommen. Der idealtypische Aufbau umfasste: Bibliothek mit Ausrichtung auf aktuelle Literatur und Periodika, Zeitschriften und Zeitungen; Leseräume mit festen Öffnu…

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European career guidance policy: A focus on subtle regulatory mechanisms

Current political strategy to reform career guidance systems in Europe is regulated by subtle practices. Using the governmentality perspective, the purpose of this article is to make sense, in theoretical terms, of governmental reason and mechanisms in reshaping of career guidance systems. The investigation draws attention to mechanisms and practices such as monitoring and evaluation which indirectly operate in the policy process to make career guidance systems amenable for management. Drawing …

Weiterbildung in der postedukativen Gesellschaft?

This assumption does not seem plausible at first glance, but rather absurd instead. The regular manifestation of modern age as a knowledge-based society on the one hand as well as the consensual acceptance of the appeal for lifelong learning on the other hand, create the opposite of an image in which the pedagogical aspect of continuing education has been lost. The author argues that learners are increasingly left unsupported, lifelong learning has become more fiction than reality and continui…

Gleichwertigkeit von beruflicher undhochschulischer Bildung?

Equality of professional and academic education? Results of comparisons according to the “Oldenburger Anrechnungsmodell” It is intended to strengthen the permeability of the educational system by taking into account professional qualifications for academic studies. The article describes an appropriate instrument, developed as a model project, to measure levels of learning units which is being used for comparisons between professional and academic qualifications.

Aspekte der "Etablierten-Außenseiter-Figuration" in der beruflichen Weiterbildung

Aspects of the “Established Outsider Figuration” in continuing vocational training Learning groups involving participants of different origins The main focus of the present paper is on continuing training courses attended by both indigenous and immigrant participants. What potential influences such participant structure on teaching may have is the subject of investigation. This reveals that in courses involving participants of mixed origin, under certain conditions, a constellation between …

Lernen in Erlebniswelten

The contribution introduces experience orientated learning places such as museums, science centers, zoos, theme parks, but also Brandlands and Urban Entertainment Centers. These learning places complement formal learning and offer room for self-controlled and strong emotionally established learning. Requirements for such hybrid basic approaches are formulated by education and entertainment. These assessments rest upon the results of a research project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education…

Professionalisierung und multimediale Selbstlernarchitekturen

Mit dem Weiterbildungsstudiengang QINEB verfolgt die Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen eine Professionalisierungsstrategie, die eine grundlegende Veränderung der Strukturlogik professionellen didaktischen Handelns in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung anstrebt. Dieser Beitrag stellt einzelne Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie dar, deren Ziel es ist, diesen Weiterbildungsstudiengang und die darin stattfindenden Professionalisierungsprozesse einer diskursanalytischen Untersuchung zu unterziehen. …