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…
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The International PIAAC study has collected data on competencies of adults in three domains in 25 countries, in many of them for the first time ever. The article provides an overview of central terms, main aims and the methodological approach of this OECD study. It also discusses its potentials and limitations. One limitation is the focus on the labour force, excluding adults older than 65 years, a fast growing part of many populations in times of demographic change. To remedy this limitation,…
The "Red Series" provides quick access and initial orientation regarding the characteristics and features of continuing education in the individual countries. The volumes combine country-specific data and information on a scientific basis. A comprehensive service section facilitates further enquiries. On this base, continuing educators from research, practice and administration are able to prepare coopertion activities.
In dem Beitrag werden zwei mündlich erzählte Lebensgeschichten von Protagonisten der hessischen Erwachsenenbildung nach 1945 auf dem Hintergrund von zwei erkenntnisleitenden Fragestellungen vorgestellt: 1) wie aus der Sicht der qualitativen Bildungsforschung demokratisch-staatsbürgerliches Handeln von Erwachsenenpädagogen identifiziert werden kann, und 2) wie mit Hilfe biographischer Quellen die aktive Seite dieses Tuns besser in den Blick kommt. Zum Abschluss ¤werden die beiden Lebensgesc…
Können Künstliche Intelligenz und Learning Analytics helfen, Lehr-/Lernprozesse zu verbessern? Wo liegen die Grenzen, welche Fallstricke müssen beachtet werden? Und vor allem: Inwiefern wollen wir, dass »denkende « Maschinen nicht nur Bildungsprozesse, sondern unsere Gesellschaft prägen? Über diese Fragen sprach Redakteur Jan Rohwerder mit Michael Brendel, pädagogischer Mitarbeiter des Ludwig-Windthorst-Hauses in Lingen (Ems) und Autor des Buches »Künftige Intelligenz«, und mit Prof. Dr. Olaf Z…
The performance of education systems is significantly influenced by the quality of teaching/learning processes. On the basis of empirical research, the programme for evidencebased educational research also contributes to improving the quality of teaching/learning processes. Hereby, new requirements for the insight of educational research as well as for the accelerated transfer of research findings into politics and practice have been formulated. Currently, the programme is strongly criticised b…
