Basic civic education is discussed as a substantial pillar in the discussion on basic education, although little is known about the basic civic skills of adults with low literacy skills. In this article based on the results of LEO 2018 and with logistic regression models, the thesis is examined that low-literate adults assess their own civic skills as rather low and thus exclude themselves from the political field. It is shown that even when controlling for various socio-economic factors, low-l…
Based on the currently observable »generation change« in organizations of adult and continuing education, the text deals with conflicts between different generations and age groups, which may arise from this special situation of transition. Different forms of conflicts and tensions are outlined with regard to selected findings from studies of business and adult educational research on organizations. Above all organizations of adult and continuing education are confronted with the dilemma of con…
The textbook provides an introduction to the field of education of older adults and lifelong learning. Coming from an interdisciplinary field of research related to ageing, learning abilities and learning needs of older adults are discussed. Additionally, adequate forms of learning and educational arrangements are presented. A special focus lies upon the correlation between competencies and age, taking into account diverse living conditions and biographies. Thus, the textbook offers impulses to…
8.725 antisemitische Vorfälle registrierte RIAS (Recherche- und Informationsstelle Antisemitismus) 2025 – nahezu unverändert zum Vorjahr, auf historischem Höchststand. Reuven Konnik liest Antisemitismus als Seismograph für den Zustand der Demokratie und sieht Potenzial darin, traditionellen jüdischen Diskurs als Übung für eine resiliente Gesellschaft auszulegen. Mit der Akademie für Jüdische Ethik und Demokratie in Rheinland-Pfalz stellt er eine neue Institution vor, die genau das umsetzt.
Im Interview mit weiter bilden spricht sich die Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung, Anja Karliczek, für die Vernetzung bestehender digitaler Bildungsplattformen aus – und erteilt damit der aus dem MILLAKonzept stammenden Idee eines »Netflix für Bildung« eine Absage. Auch andere Vorhaben aus dem Feld der Bildungspolitik werden zurzeit unterschiedlich bewertet (s. die Beiträge zur Nationalen Weiterbildungsstrategie aus Sicht der Arbeitnehmer- und Arbeitgeberseite). Und manche Folgen kürzl…
The book provides a guideline for a didactic planning and design of conferences, conventions and workshops. It serves to support the act of preparation, realization and evaluation of events in adult education and may be used in various contexts and on a variety of topics. The book addresses staff working in the management and leadership of institutions in adult education, in public relations and event management.
The article deals with a change in public, political, and scientific understanding of migration and integration issues, which has to be taken into account by organisations of adult and continuing education. Furthermore the present focus on migration and integration offers new challenges as well as opportunities to improve the role of organisations of adult and continuing education in shaping the German society as an immigration society.
The authors explain their model of transferring self-directed learning elements from the context of projects to their daily work as adult education teachers in the Volkshochschule des Landkreises Gießen (adult education school). They focus on usability and investigate the learners' view on self-directed learning. Their results: If resources are used wisely, the implementation of self-directed learning is possible and learners appreciate it.
PISA and adult education – temptations and open questions “The PISA results are an invitation for the debate and for developing the research rather than conclusive judgeements on the miracle recipe to improve the educational performance” (Heller 2003, p. 30). Earmarking for the discussion of policies of adult education after PISA is that the results are taken to express most different positions in little differentiated way. To this also the typical reception problems contribute, such as t…
Didactical quality is a crucial precondition if all citizens of the European Union are to be able to develop multilingual skills. Here it is in particular adult education centres which have the task of training their teachers and offering them continuing education so as to make possible optimum didactical classroom instruction. This article shows that applied linguistics and research on teaching languages can provide an important impetus here. The author moreover issues a plea for specialised d…
