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Erwachsenenbildung ist ein Spiegel gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen. Christine Zeuner erzählt ihre Geschichte aus einer sozial- und kulturgeschichtlichen Perspektive und rückt dabei soziale Bewegungen als zentralen Motor in den Fokus. Die Erwachsenenbildung erscheint nicht als bloße Reaktion auf politische Steuerung, sondern als aktiver Teil kollektiver Emanzipationsbestrebungen - von der Aufklärung bis in die Gegenwart. Das Buch rekonstruiert Bildungsinitiativen des aufgeklärten Bürgertums, de…
Hans Tietgens hat die Geschichte der deutschen Erwachsenenbildungswissenschaft maßgeblich geprägt, als Wissenschaftler ebenso wie als langjähriger Leiter der Pädagogischen Arbeitsstelle des Deutschen Volkshochschul-Verbandes. Die vorliegende Publikation widmet sich der Genese und Wahrnehmung seiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten. Zugleich beleuchtet der Band sein Engagement für die Erwachsenenbildungspraxis. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, welche seiner Arbeiten in welchen Forschungsfeldern der Er…
Adult education is a field that is strongly shaped by tensions between scientific and political demands. The development of competencies as well as the idea of continuing to learn throughout the whole life are topics that have been debated in science and policy for many years and are still of great importance today. This dissertation deals with the relationship between science and European education policy in adult education by analyzing scientific journal articles and political documents from …
The dissertation analyses the contribution of a social space research perspective to the understanding of (non-)participation of groups of less well-educated individuals in organized further education. Both, the theoretical as well as the methodological framing are defined by a social space perspective. In a substudy of the project “Learning in Social Quarters – Significance of Social Space for Further Education”, at the German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Center for Lifelong Learnin…
Scientific adult learning discussions refer to the concept of “region” mainly in policy contexts. Against this background, the author develops an approach to investigate regions from an organizational point of view. In a qualitative interview study using grounded theory within the framework of action-centered geography, he shows that adult education organizations and professionals construct regions in pedagogical practice. These practices need to be analyzed as a complex interplay between marke…
This study explores the definition of „adult basic education“ from the perspective of public education administration of the German Laender. On the one hand, adult basic education is claimed as a public good that has to be made accessible by public funding. One the other hand, there is still no agreement on the definition of adult basic education. Based on a subject-scientific approach, qualitative interviews are conducted with administrative employees in order to explore dimensions and justifi…
The studie „Cultures of Teaching“ focusses on the question, to what extend teaching beliefs are anchored in the pedagigal practice of Adult Education. Particullary the relation between teaching beliefs and organizational contexts is analysed. These questions are answerd by the means of a qualitative research design in which nine organisations of adult education were integrated. Therefore, all members of each organisations (mananagment, pedagogical and administrative staff) took part at intervie…
In a representative survey in 2012 the German edition of the Adult Education Survey (AES) collected data relating to the professional development behaviour and the structure of the professional development market in Germany. This final report analyses and comments on the collated data under the consideration of key questions: Who participates why, how often and how long in professional development and who does not? Which professional development provisions are popular? How is the target group o…
