As a result of the current migration of several hundreds of thousands refugees in Germany alone, concepts for successful language training become increasingly important. The integration programme funded by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) plays a central role. This article refers to data collected by the author regarding success factors for language learning. In this qualitative study, 51 interviews were conducted with integration programme participants in a reception centre…
The article presents a number of photographs of the Franz Pöggeler estate, which is preserved in the archive of the German Institute of Adult Education. The historic pictures vary between ecclesiastic-monumental architectural photography and simple snap shots and illustrate the differences of learning and teaching arrangements in the history of adult education centres. Even though the author regards the photographs as evidence of a mentality-historically obsolete period, they still indicate the…
This article examines the guidelines and objectives of political (societal) and citizenship education in Finland during the past 40 years approximately. During this relatively short period different programmes have arisen which aptly reflect changes which have taken place, in viewpoints, in the social atmosphere and in citizens’ political interests. The article is concerned with the reports of two committees, the Adult Education Committee and the Lifelong Learning Committee, since the beginning…
Looking ahead – 30-year REPORT The 30th anniversary issue of the REPORT reviews ideas, research findings and articles from a present-day perspective and extrapolates these into the future. To this end, texts from the two founding editors, Horst Siebert and Johannes Weinberg, have subsumed articles under six different topical rubrics and reread these from a present-day perspective from thirty years of REPORT. The articles are prefaced and concluded by two interviews respectively providing a ret…
Die veränderten Anforderungen der Arbeitswelt stellen Beschäftigte vor neue Herausforderungen: Neben den klassischen Grundkompetenzen Lesen, Schreiben und Rechnen werden zunehmend erweiterte administrative, technische und soziale Kompetenzen gefordert. Praxiserfahrungen aus NRW-Projekten wie MENTO pro, BasisKomNet und GrubiKomNRW können jedoch exemplarisch Wege aufzeigen, wie der Zugang in Unternehmen dennoch gelingen und Erfolge zeitigen kann.
Welche individuellen Wirkungen zeitigt Bildungsurlaub? Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass die Teilnehmenden vielfältige Wirkungen mit ihrer Teilnahme an Bildungsurlauben verbinden. Die Autorin, Mitverfasserin der Studie, stellt deren Kernergebnisse vor.
Anstelle des alltäglichen Gebens und Nehmens als Teil pädagogischen Handelns sollte – so der Autor – das Lehren als Geben ohne Erwartung von Gegenleistung verstanden werden. Als Teil einer Ethik der Anerkennung führe eine solche Haltung dazu, utilitaristische Bildungsvorstellungen zu überwinden und Lernende wie Lehrende als eigenständige Subjekte anzuerkennen.
Adult education is a field that is strongly shaped by tensions between scientific and political demands. The development of competencies as well as the idea of continuing to learn throughout the whole life are topics that have been debated in science and policy for many years and are still of great importance today. This dissertation deals with the relationship between science and European education policy in adult education by analyzing scientific journal articles and political documents from …
An Fallbeispielen zeigt der Autor auf, wie Wissenschaft die Praxis von Lehrkräften der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung unterstützen kann. Wissenschaft für Praxis zu nutzen, ist kein Wert an sich, sondern Ausdruck der Verantwortung von Lehrenden für das Lernen der Teilnehmenden.
In the future it should be possible for educationally qualified applicants to be able to attend a university without university-entrance certificates acquired in a secondary school. This is meant to help ease the looming shortage of skilled labour in Germany. Facilities in the area of adult education are also to help facilitate the transition to a school of higher learning. The authors of this article report on a promising approach along these lines – the Lower Saxony model project »Open Univer…
