Research activities in adult education are currently only partially visible and dispersed across numerous data sources. This report examines existing information resources and identifies limitations in terms of completeness, accessibility and technical interoperability. To improve the long-term visibility of research and provide a reliable basis for research on the discipline itself, existing infrastructures should be more closely interconnected, persistent identifiers such as ORCID systematica…
Die Frage, was aus der Geschichte für die Zukunft gelernt werden kann bzw. ob eine Beschäftigung mit ihr zukunftsfähige Lernprozesse anregt, wird kontrovers diskutiert. In ihrem Beitrag vertritt Christine Zeuner die Auffassung, dass die Auseinandersetzung mit historischen Ereignissen insbesondere zur Aneignung historischer Kompetenz (Negt, 2010) und zur Entwicklung einer kollektiven Erinnerungskultur (Assmann, 2016) führen kann und die Entfaltung einer kollektiven professionellen Identität bei …
Welche praktischen Probleme ergeben sich bei der Anwendung der Lebensweltorientierung in der Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildung – und welche Deutungsmöglichkeiten bietet die Literatur? Hierzu beleuchtet der Autor zentrale Passagen eines Originaltextes der phänomenologischen Soziologie zur »Lebenswelt« (Schütz & Luckmann, 1975) sowie ihrer Rezeption durch einen Protagonisten der Erwachsenenbildungsforschung (Wittpoth, 2014).
In der Diskussion über Transfer zwischen Praxis und Wissenschaft wird häufig eine Dis-tanz zwischen den beiden Bereichen festgestellt. Im Gespräch erläutert Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Rolf Arnold, Seniorprofessor für Pädagogik an der TU Kaiserslautern, inwiefern es je-doch nicht nur Distanz, sondern auch Involviertheit gibt – und warum es sinnvoll sein kann, auf den Transferbegriff zu verzichten. Das Gespräch führte Dr. Lars Kilian.
Most learning activities in continuing education are assigned to enterprise-provided continuing vocational training. There is wide-spread interest in this field and its development. But many researchers point out that the theoretical and conceptual foundations for researching and shaping this field are not adequately unfolded. The variety of enterprise-provided continuing vocational training requires approaches, which allow for differentiation between diverse realities and interests of actors. …
The studie „Cultures of Teaching“ focusses on the question, to what extend teaching beliefs are anchored in the pedagigal practice of Adult Education. Particullary the relation between teaching beliefs and organizational contexts is analysed. These questions are answerd by the means of a qualitative research design in which nine organisations of adult education were integrated. Therefore, all members of each organisations (mananagment, pedagogical and administrative staff) took part at intervie…
Hattie‘s study »Visible Learning« is no reason to call for didactic changes in adult education - this is this article’s conclusion of the New Zealander’s meta-study from a continuing educational perspective. Nontheless, Hattie provides significant suggestions for the didactic debate. These suggestions include guidelines for suitable teaching activities as well as his rather provocative findings on the positive effects of actively guided lessons, which do not contradict adult educational conside…
Positive learning experiences in childhood, adolescence, as well as during employment have a favourable effect on learning in old age. From a gerontological perspective, the significance of school education and of professional qualifications attained later in life for educational behaviour in the post-employment phase can be explained with the continuity theory. To evaluate the relevance of one’s educational biography, a representative survey was conducted. 500 individuals at the age from 50 to…
An idyll of inclusion and exclusion? The article brings into question the ongoing debate about inclusion/exclusion. For this purpose it draws attention to the circularity of the used arguments being composed of democracy – social inclusion – education. Hence, the paper is aimed at discussing the interdependence of these components, focussing in particular on the ambivalent position of adult/further education in this dynamic. The reference to the work of Jacques Rancière, an influential Frenc…
