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Die Einführung gestufter Studiengänge erhitzt seit geraumer Zeit die Gemüter an den Hochschulen. Nicht alles, was dort zur Debatte steht, muss die Erwachsenenbildung interessieren. Aber wenn es um die Ausbildung ihres eigenen Nachwuchses geht, müsste sie hellhörig werden. Wofür steht der Bachelor? Wer stellt 22-jährige Hochschulabgänger ein, zu welchen Konditionen? Wird die Ausbildung europäischer? Wozu qualifizieren BA und MA wirklich? Ein Heft für Studierende und alle, denen die Zukunft der P…
This text is focused on examining the relevance of the trends towards democratisation in the Adult Education context of Spain. After giving a description of the legal frame, the text develops a brief explanation of the different models which coexist in Adult Education centres. In particular, the author emphasises the relevance of the social model in the Spanish contexts of Adult Education, as it is starting from high expectations about the learners’ capacities and based on the participant’s rig…
Oscar Olsson war einer der treibenden Kräfte beim Aufbau von Study Circle in Schweden Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Diese richteten sich an die ärmere Landbevölkerung und Arbeiter. Historisch waren die Study Circle eng mit den Prinzipien der „Popular Education“ in sozialen Bewegungen, insbesondere der Arbeiterbewegung, verbunden.
Further education is regarded as an investment in the future, in which large parts of the population of Germany participate. However not all groups benefit from this investment in equal measure. The contribution particularly focuses on the further education situation of migrants. A subsequent subscription of the development of pedagogical concepts of deficit- and adaption orientated basic approaches from the early 1970s up to the current stronger resource- and integration orientated offers. The…
In this article we explore the challenges of learning in later life, in particular intergenerational or cross generational learning for the future. Looking to the policy of the European Union (EU), in particular to lifelong learning, we see how the notion for intergenerational and intercultural learning has been embedded more and more into policy. The question is if this makes sense, or better: how will it make sense? Senior education is transforming in intergenerational learning – intergenerat…
