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The article studies the image of adults behind the concept of lifelong learning. Educational policy documents are studied, which substantiate strategies of lifelong learning on a global, European and national level. Papers issued by the UNESCO, OECD, EU-Commission and Federal/State Commission for Educational Planning and Research Promotion (Bund-Länder-Kommission – BLK) rarely explicitly include adults. The adult is – if included at all – outlined as a working person, as a citizen and as a resp…
Wie kann Lernberatung aussehen und wie können Lehrende sich hierfür qualifizieren? Diesen Fragen geht H. Pätzold in der vorliegenden Untersuchung nach. Zunächst wird in der Auseinandersetzung mit der einschlägigen Debatte in der Erwachsenenpädagogik eine breite Lesart des Lernberatungsbegriffes entwickelt. Ausgangspunkt ist dabei die Auseinandersetzung mit den Zulieferkonzepten für einen erwachsenenpädagogischen Lernbegriff und eine umfassende Darstellung zentraler Beratungskonzepte von der Ind…
Particularly, disabled people belong to those being excluded from social participation. From these peoples’ point of view, the UN-Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities formulates specific challenges for the system of adult and continuing education. What results from these challenges with regard to the various social and individual functions given to adult education and lifelong learning? Answers from the field of adult education, from the pedagogy for the disabled and from socio…
A video-study of language courses in adult education analyses the transformation of a learning side into a pedagogical space. The definition of pedagogical space is linked to the theory of social space. Space is thus viewed as an arrangement and perception between human beings and social goods. This recasting of social space as a pedagogical space specifies social space to include two additional elements: the representation of knowledge and pedagogical media. For this study, the transformation …
Professionelles Handeln ist auch in der Bildungsberatung wichtiger denn je. Voraussetzung dafür ist neben der Aneignung notwendiger Kompetenzen die Ausbildung eines individuellen wie öffentlichen Bewusstseins für die Spezifik der Beratungstätigkeit. Schließlich kommt es in der Beratungssituation vor allem auf die Fähigkeit zu wechselseitiger Wahrnehmung und angemessener Reaktion an. Basierend auf Modellen aus der Psychoanalyse und anhand von Fallbeispielen aus der Praxis stellt Jörg Knoll Metho…
From the principle of the regulated occupation to the supremacy of certification: fields of conflict en route to the German qualifications framework (DQR) This article addresses the central difficulties observed in the search for consensus during the current development of a national German qualifications framework (Deutscher Qualifikationsrahmen, DQR). As well as the difficulty in blending in the German national “dual system” of vocational training with the EQF, the main difficulties identi…
The author has collected self-reports of functional illiterates and questioned them on their “joy potential“. Three qualitatively set up analyses of the 1990s serve as sources. The contribution shows that the participation in literacy courses can cause a significant increase of self-confidence by overcoming experiences of deficit. The experience of attention and support is seen as encouraging and it contributes considerably to take over responsibility for one’s own life.
