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Adult education is more and more affected by social change due to migration. This paper analyses the marginal adoption of the topic by research in the past and describes recent trends, also in practice. Perspectives for institutions of adult education such as widening access to adult education for migrants, organisational development and professionalisation are discussed. Furthermore the author names challenges for research. There should be more cooperation within the field of educational resea…
Schwerpunktthema dieser Ausgabe des REPORT ist das didaktische Handeln in der Erwachsenenbildung und damit verbundene Fragen wie die Ermittlung von Bildungsbedarf- und Bedürfnissen, Programm- und Veranstaltungsplanung. Neue didaktische Aufgaben wie die Unterstützung selbstgesteuerten Lernens, E-Learning, Lernberatung und Qualitätssicherung machen Überlegungen notwendig wie: Lässt sich lebenslanges Lernen überhaupt didaktisieren? Brauchen wir eine Didaktikfolgenabschätzung? Sind Erwachsene nich…
Analysing the Course of Processes in Counselling – A Desideratum Reasoning and Development of a Research Design Different processes of counselling have been a non-studied field of research in adult education so far. It is necessary for the professionalization of counselling to close this research gap by an empirical basic work, because the need for counselling is increasing. A research design is explained by this article. The methodological outline will be developed and reasoned.
Environmental education that fosters meaningful community participation and learning has been considered a requisite to sustaining our human and natural environments in many of the global conferences, agreements, declarations and charters since the 1972 UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm. Despite this growing consensus there is a small amount of published research in Australia in this field of practice we have decided to call popular and informal environmental education – education t…
