This article explores the inherent normative nature of what on the surface appears to be neutral empirical research. Direct and indirect normative influences exercised by empirical research are demonstrated using the example of the PISA studies: (1) their desire to provide knowledge which can help steer policy, (2) the normative nature of their didactical concepts and educational theory, (3) the idea derived from the sequence of studies of adapting classroom instruction to conform with the conc…
The requirement for improving one’s life also concerns the family – and therefore family education. In his documented speech on the occasion of the ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the Catholic Education Centre in Bonn, the author pleads for creating spaces for meetings and relationships as well as for conveying »serenity competences« with family education instead of supporting improvement mania.
Colleagues from various European countries were invited to an international lecture series at the University of Duisburg-Essen to talk about trends in adult and continuing education. Looking back on this lecture series, we intend to examine different approaches to the term “trend” as well as to outline results of current research in adult and continuing education. We will then give an overview of main arguments of the essays presented in the following. Finally, common trends in European adult a…
Departing from the variety of understandings of “region” both in general and in Adult Education, the author aims at a new definition of the term against the backdrop of current discussions on space. Based on a geographic approach, the author analyzes recent literature in the field of Adult Education. He identifies a shift in both politics and research. He, suggests, with Schöning, to evaluate the concept from a variety of perspectives – from the point of view of the subject, of the organiz…
Educational management as constellation of action comb By means of empirical results on action of management in adult educational institutions and -organisations in this contribution it is worked out that management is linked to a term of education and is ingrained into the institution specifics.
Das Berichtssystem Weiterbildung (BSW) war bis zuletzt die wichtigste Erhebung zur Weiterbildungsbeteiligung in Deutschland. Jetzt hat es Konkurrenz bekommen: den europäischen „Adult Education Survey“ (AES). Die Ergebnisse beider Repräsentativbefragungen der deutschen Bevölkerung liegen in diesem Band vor. Neben Aussagen zur Beteiligung, zum Zeitaufwand, zu Formen, Kosten, Nutzen und Themen von Weiterbildung werden Merkmale vorgestellt, die sich als zentrale individuelle und beschäftigungsbezog…
