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Participation in adult education and learning motivation In this introductory contribution firstly the history of the educational sociology of research in adult in Germany is reconstructed in keywords. The current discussion on social exclusion/inclusion is scetched here and further deepened in the following contributions of this book. In the final chapter of this contribution the results of an educational biographical study are presented. Here nine types of participation in adult education …
Für jedes gesellschaftliche Handlungsfeld gibt es ein Bildgedächtnis, das einen emotional-affektiven, also nicht-rationalen Zugang zu eben diesem Feld bietet. Wie steht es um das Bildgedächtnis der Erwachsenenbildung? Gibt es vielleicht, wenn nicht Bilder, dann bestimmte Motive, die repräsentativ für die Erwachsenenbildung sind?
Successful communication – i.e. reaching an understanding between speaker and listener – depends on the content and its format, the personality of the speaker, but also on the form and presentation of the content. Especially in situations of learning and teaching, the voice of the speaker plays an important role in the presentation of the content of teaching and learning. Some ways of speaking may render unwanted effects and may be seen as distracting. It is important to note, however, that all…
The present findings are based on a programme analysis of one fifth of all programmes provided by public adult education institutions in Low Saxony in 2012. The study focused on field classification as well as on the analysis of participation portals. Over all, eight portals were developed and identified for the analysis. The findings provide information on methods for addressing social requirements and thus differentiating the educational field – how intercultural education undergoes a delta-s…
The concept of competencies has expansive effects for the definition of goals, contents and methods in teaching. The orientation on competencies therefore is more than a didactic principle like active-learning or learner-centered instruction. Coming from a concept of competencies as a didactical category as well as an aim of teaching, we will argue, that a comprehensive theoretical approach is needed, which delivers a theoretical founded orientation for both the decisions on contents and the me…
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Seminare leiten macht Spaß. Oft genug aber bergen Lehr-Lernsituationen Konfliktpotential. Das vorliegende Buch rückt diese, insbesondere die Lehrenden herausfordernden, Situationen ins Blickfeld. Anhand von konkreten Praxisbeispielen werden Handlungs-alternativen abgewogen und Hilfen zum souveränen Agieren gegeben. Dabei wird in knapper Form auch das nötige Hintergrundwissen zu Gruppenprozessen vermittelt. Das Buch ist aufgrund seiner Praxisnähe auch für erfahrene Lehrende in der Erwachsenenbil…
From the viewpoint of Akademie Remscheid, a leading provider of further education courses involving education through play, this article presents the facets of the phenomenon of play as relevant to education and illustrates them using several examples of play that can be applied to adult education. The focus is on group games which can be played using simple materials. The central fields of learning targeted by play are identified as social skills, perception, expression, creativity and problem…
