The article is the answer of the (female) author to three questions for the understanding, the development and the most important tasks of gender democracy now and in the future. The actual development of gender democracy as a political target is seen critically by Barbara Stiegler similar to the view of Peter Döge. But at the field of education gender democracy has to be understood as a target in general. Gender mainstreaming as an integrative educational task and issue presupposes gender …
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 …
So far, numeracy as part of basic education has only been considered peripherally in the German-speaking countries, regarding the scientific as well as the practical approaches of adult education. In this article, theoretical and conceptual lines of the discourse are linked systematically. In addition, it is argued for an extension of the discourse by including the concept of subject-oriented basic education, which is based on the concept of numeracy as social practice. Initial findings from tw…
In the usually clearly word- and text-oriented research field of adult education, for a while now, approaches have been observed, which understand visual presentations as data to be analyzed in a methodically controlled way. These data are used in order to generate and substantiate knowledge about adult education, whereby intensity, contexts, theoretical background and methods or methodology are different. This article presents these approaches in the research fields focusing on students, progr…
Wie können Weiterbildungseinrichtungen gezielt Teilnehmende aus bestimmten sozialen Milieus gewinnen? Wie können zielgruppenspezifische Angebote erfolgreich konzipiert und durchgeführt werden? Was kann dieser Ansatz dazu beitragen, Weiterbildungsteilnahme insgesamt zu erhöhen? Auf diese Fragen antworten die Forschergruppen von Rudolf Tippelt und Heiner Barz mit der Strategie des "Milieumarketings". In diesem Band widmen sie sich speziell der Frage, wie milieu- und zielgruppenspezifische Ange…
