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The "unreigned" subject Learning in adult education In adult education – but not only this profession - humanistic psychology, chaos theory, constructivism, modernisation theory are, among others, in many cases normatively charged. Thus they are no longer theories for explanation but instructions for the design of social reality, namely of further education. In contrast to this the author here is interested in the system of relations, in which the subjects are interwoven when they enter a …
Against the self-misunderstanding of quasi therapists within the adult education scene The topic will squirm itself around a complicated relation when it is about naming the establishment of psycho therapists’ “elements” and thereby simultaneous medical “elements” within the practice of further education and concerning this matter simultaneous commenting when esoterical components are added. This interconnection shall be debated system theoretically. Finally the question of regulating possib…
Adult education for people without school graduation or graduation from vocaltional training Report on a study for the OECD Germany participated in the partial undertaking “adult learning of the low educated and low skilled” within the OECD-programme “Thematic review on adult learning: The second round”. The contribution describes the decrease of the level of qualification of the younger population and from this it names the resulting requirements to adult education.
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 …
The new jargon of normative pedagogy Empirical results of the normativity problem of constructivistical adult didactics The present contribution attends to the normativity problem of the constructivistical adult didactics. For this a research design is introduced which facilitate an empirical analysis of ethical implications (1). When one regards the relocation of non-pedagogical terms in adult pedagogy, transformation examples can be seen, which is a central result in the analysis carried …
Ausgehend von Ergebnissen der Machbarkeitsstudie "Weiterbildungspass mit Zertifizierung informellen Lernens" werden Definitionen für informelles Lernens und für die Zertifizierung und Fragen der Anerkennung dieser informell erworbenen Kompetenzen, besonders im betrieblichen Kontext, problematisiert.
Ausgehend von einer skeptischen Einschätzung der zukünftigen Entwicklung der Chancengleichheit im Weiterbildungsbereich plädiert der Autor in Anlehnung an einen Gedanken von Friedrich Edding aus dem Jahr 1988, einen Bundesrahmenordnung zur beruflichen Weiterbildung für eine Neuordnung der Lernchancen zu schaffen. Dafür werden die Themenfelder skizziert.
