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"Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung" - eine schwieriger Markenname für ein wichtiges Bildungsprodukt. Aber Nachhaltigkeit kann nicht nur theoretisch vermittelt werden, sondern muss im Alltag gelebt werden; damit kommen informellen Lernprozessen eine besondere Bedeutung zu.
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 diesem Beitrag zu den Zukunfts-Themen „Neue“ Medien – Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien und Patchwork-Biographien wird die alte und nach wie vor virulente bildungs- und sozialpolitische Frage nach der Chancengerechtigkeit in den Mittelpunkt gerückt.
Der Autor thematisiert Bildung für fragmentarisierte Biographien. Nach gesellschaftstheoretischen Überlegungen geht er der doppelten Fragmentarität von Biographien nach, um abschließend die sich daraus ergebenden Konsequenzen für die Erwachsenenbildung zu erörtern.
In a small “philosophy story of joy“, the author bends a bow from Aristotle across Kant to utilitarianism. Aristotle had defined joy as that, where a person finds himself. Kant on the other hand accents, that a person can only be satisfied with himself who lives in unison with his moral beliefs. With the utilitarian the author retains: “It is not questionable, whether we are all strive for joy, but what joy is.“ Here the task of (adult) education affiliates: It must first enable people to judge…
The author prefers the term of »sustainable learning« compared with »education for sustainable development«, because she sees the numerous non-institutionalised learning processes being included. The UN decade is a challenge for a variety of learning places, protagonists and target groups. She confronts the chances for the decade with several social, above all individual barriers, which complicate the learning of sustainability. Besides the value attitudes and emotions above all here the factor…
The authors explain their model of transferring self-directed learning elements from the context of projects to their daily work as adult education teachers in the Volkshochschule des Landkreises Gießen (adult education school). They focus on usability and investigate the learners' view on self-directed learning. Their results: If resources are used wisely, the implementation of self-directed learning is possible and learners appreciate it.
Going out from the »UN ECE Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development« of March 2005 the author describes which challenges have arisen from the establishment of the perspective of sustainability. In an overview of the different areas of adult education it becomes obvious, how variable the concept of ESD finds acceptance (adult evening classes, environmental education, global learning, academies). Eventually the contribution encourages to comprehend ESD as a chance for adult education an…
