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The support of food and move literacy in learning groups mainly aims for a benefit in terms of a health-promoting and sustainable lifestyle. The general education system has developed differentiated education plans containing basic contents and competences on these topics. In adult education comprehensive health education addresses aspects of food- as well as move literacy. In the context of literacy and basic education, however, there are only a few learning opportunities that focus on nutriti…
The report examines the transferability of Howard Gardner’s approach »Five Minds for the Future« to the field of continuing education. Along the »Five Minds«, he points out their significance as a plea for holistic education. Thus, future-oriented education does not impart a definite canon of knowledge but a positive preservation of learning. This pretence is transferable to continuing educational institutions which already include various holistic topics and forms of learning in their programm…
This article examines learning at the university, which is located in the institutional context of the university with its structural conditions. The analysis of learning at universities opens research perspectives, to which the adult education science can deliver substantial contributions.
Die erste Ausgabe der Quartalszeitschrift REPORT enthält die Dokumentation der Fachtagung der Kommission Erwachsenenbildung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft aus dem Vorjahr. Die Fachtagung des vergangenen Jahres fand im Herbst unter der Federführung der neuen Sprecherin der Kommission, Christine Zeuner, an der Universität Flensburg statt und war dem Thema Milieus, Arbeit, Wissen: Realität in der Erwachsenenbildung gewidmet. In diesem Band werden die Vorträge aus fünf Arbei…
Communication competences of adult educators are challenged intensively. Successful learning largely depends on the subject matter’s mediative aspects: rhetoric and vocal processes prove to be significant for the learning atmosphere, group dynamics, understandable knowledge communication and setting group and feedback processes in motion. As a result, a sound and comprehensive repertoire of communicative competences is essential, which can be acquired in close relation to linguistics and speech…
Biography orientation and didactics Deliberations for the guidance of biographical learning in adult education In the practice of adult education methods and concepts of biographical learning have since long been integral part of didactical deliberations and they are newly made subject of discussion again and again with changing reasons and terms. For some time the concept of "Biographizität" is referred to in these discussions without the relevance of this term, which was developed in the …
The book provides a guideline for a didactic planning and design of conferences, conventions and workshops. It serves to support the act of preparation, realization and evaluation of events in adult education and may be used in various contexts and on a variety of topics. The book addresses staff working in the management and leadership of institutions in adult education, in public relations and event management.
John Locke formulierte im Nachfolgenden, die Regeln eines Debating-Clubs. Die Teilnahme ist demnach weder an den Stand noch an Bildungsabschlüsse gebunden. Sie verlangt aber Wahrheitsliebe, Interesse an der Sache, Respekt, Verantwortungsübernahme und die Anerkennung der moralischen, religiösen und politischen Rahmenbedingungen.
Die Validierung von non-formal und informell erworbener Kompetenzen wird zur Zeit breit diskutiert, zumeist aber unter dem Blickwinkel der beruflichen Weiterbildung. Die Autorin plädiert dafür, Validierung auch zu einem Thema der allgemeinen Erwachsenenbildung zu machen. Denn: Im Sinne einer Chancenermöglichung kann Validierung dazu beitragen, Teilhabe zu ermöglichen – ein erklärtes Ziel der Erwachsenenbildung.
