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In dieser Reihe wurden Beispiele angewandter Forschung vorgestellt. Dabei handelte es sich in erster Linie um Begleitforschung zu Entwicklungsversuchen im Rahmen von Projekten. Daß neben den Ergebnissen auch die Untersuchungsmethoden diskutiert werden, gehört zu den Besonderheiten der Reihe, die 1996 von den "DIE Analysen für Erwachsenenbildung" abgelöst wurde.
This article starts from the premise that an academic discipline directed at practice has to question, within which terms its research results become useful beyond science. For empirical research, the authors put forward the idea of use-inspired basic research. This approach might be a helpful orientation due to (further) educational science’s double challenge to simultaneously prove academic productivity and practical as well as societal usefulness. By reference to points of decision regularly…
Jyri Manninen presents empirical data on the »wider benefits of lifelong learning« collected in Finish adult education institutions (adult education centres, folk high schools, university summer schools, study and sport centres) in 2007. To present the results, a model concept on the wider benefits of learning was developed, which includes a quintuple classification of the term »benefits«: 1. »relevant benefits for the learning process «, 2. »direct benefits«, 3. »skills and competences«, 4. »a…
Scientific Education This issue combines empirical and conceptual access points to research of an area of education which has been for the most part neglected by continuing education: What role does natural science knowledge play in the context of informal and non-formal learning processes of adults? And what impetus can be derived for the structure and design of teaching-learning arrangements in other areas? This issue provides insight into specific issues, providing a contribution to inter…
Scientific guidance as empirical research and consultancy Scientific guidance as a self-evident component of adult education stands in area of tension of empirical research and consultancy. This tension ratio can be dissolved when one dissolves scientific guidance in two phases, one survey phase and a consultancy phase, which are then defined as different situations of adult education.
Der REPORT berichtet über Frauenbildung und Frauenarbeit aus zwei Perspektiven. Die Texte beleuchten die Inhalte von Erwachsenenbildung, die für Frauen gedacht sind, und sie berichten aus der Perspektive der Frauen, die in der Erwachsenenbildung beschäftigt sind.