Social Capital in Japan's Aging Society

Japan’s population is aging and shrinking at unprecedented speed. One central issue that emerges in the ongoing discourse on how to meet the manifold demographic challenges Japan faces deals with the central role the nation’s senior citizens can take on when it comes to providing and fostering social capital. The concept of lifelong learning in this context has been established as a central means of being engaged in actively shaping the future of Japan.

Erwachsenenbildner/innen an der Schnittstelle zwischen Verwaltung und Pädagogik

In adult education, fields of activity have lost their strict boundaries: administrative employees also perform pedagogical work – such as counselling, for instance – and full-time pedagogical employees also have to handle administrative work – e.g. in project management. Both qualitatively and quantitatively, administrative employees play an important role in the pedagogical functioning of institutions of adult education, although this factor is often neglected in both research and measures of…

Organisationales Lernen als Lernweg des Subjekts

The following article focuses on the debate on organizational learning from an adult-educational point of view. In most approaches to organizational learning the members of an organization are regarded as the main drivers of organizational learning processes. However, such approaches do not systematically incorporate important presumptions of learning-theory, although this promises to create a better understanding of adult-educational experiences within organizations. Hence, the article present…

Budde, Jürgen; Venth, Angela: Genderkompetenz für lebenslanges Lernen / Derichs-Kunstmann, Karin u.a. (Hrsg.): Gender-Kompetenz für die Bildungsarbeit

Behringer, Friederike; Käpplinger, Bernd; Pätzold, Günter (Hrsg.): Betriebliche Weiterbildung

Maier-Gutheil, Cornelia: Zwischen Beratung und Begutachtung

Kronauer, Martin (Hrsg.): Inklusion und Weiterbildung

Aneignung von Lernorten in der Erwachsenenbildung

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 …

Hochschulen als Lernorte für das Lebensbegleitende Lernen?

As a priority of education policy Lifelong Learning implies flexible individual learning pathways in different settings. Within the demographic change and the demand of higher skills higher education qualifications become increasingly important to reach employment, why higher education institutions need to open up against new target groups. This article focuses on further education offered by higher education institutions and intends to give a picture of the current demand and supply. Empirical…

Lebenslanges Lernen im Kontext der Verwissenschaftlichung von Arbeit

Sites and trajectories of learning disconnected from schooling and traditional training are discussed against the background of a new scientification of work related to the shift towards an information technological mode of production. This scientification is rooted in a new relation of theory and practice at work. Accordingly, workers play a new strategic role in work processes: they have to optimize procedures, define and search for reasonable objectives, reflect on methods and strategies of …