Teaching is fun. But teaching and learning situations bear the potential for conflict. With this book, the author elaborates on potential catalysts for conflict and provides strategies to professionally cope with these situations. While presenting best practice examples, he ponders alternative courses of action and delivers help for confident and competent teaching. The author also conveys concise background information on group processes. Because of its practical relevance, the book is not onl…
The present findings are based on a programme analysis of one fifth of all programmes provided by public adult education institutions in Low Saxony in 2012. The study focused on field classification as well as on the analysis of participation portals. Over all, eight portals were developed and identified for the analysis. The findings provide information on methods for addressing social requirements and thus differentiating the educational field – how intercultural education undergoes a delta-s…
Die Direktoren dreier Leibniz-Institute im interdisziplinären Gespräch über die Frage, was Erwachsenenbildung von der Konzept-Orientierung der PISA-Studie lernen kann: Prof. Dr. Prenzel vom Institut für Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften an der Universität Kiel und zugleich Mitglied des deutschen PISA-Konsortiums 2000, Prof. Dr. Scheich vom Institut für Neurobiologie in Magdeburg und Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein vom Deutschen Institut für Erwachsenenbildung in Bonn.
Erwachsene sind unbelehrbar, aber lernfähig, so Horst Siebert. Sie lernen anders als Kinder und Jugendliche und bedürfen daher anderer Formen der Aneignung von Wissen, der Unterweisung und Kenntnisvermittlung. Wie gerechtfertigt ist dieses Paradigma der Erwachsenenbildung und welche Rolle spielen Inhalte? Inwiefern sind Lehrpläne und fachliche Analysen, darüber hinaus fachdidaktische Wissensbestände hilfreich? Ist eine gesonderte Didaktik für Erwachsene überhaupt gerechtfertigt? Diesen Fragen g…
Education for elderly people has continuously increased in significance against the background of demographic developments. Primarily the group of the “young old“ has been in the centre of scientific exploration and practical educational work. For a long time the theme old age has been shielded. The author shows development lines and blind spots of old age research and old age education and pleads for a re-orientation of the educational approach in the context of relatives care. Thereby she foc…
Ehses, Christiane; Zech, Rainer: Good organisation – a contribution to the self-conception of the adult education profession Quality standards were found on the empirical basis of analysis of consultancy cases as well as group discussions with heads and consultants of adult education organisations. These quality standards can be the precondition for a comparability of organisations and they can also be quality standards for their organisation’s evaluation by internal or external evaluators a…
Für die Erwachsenenbildung hilft die Biographieforschung, die Frage nach den Lernprozessen Erwachsener präziser herauszuarbeiten: Welche Bedeutung für die eigene Biographie haben Bildungsprozesse? Was erfahren wir von Teilnehmenden der Erwachsenenbildung über ihre Einschätzung von Bildung? Inwieweit werden Vorbilder konstituiert oder konstruiert? Diesen Fragen gehen die Beiträge dieses Heftes nach.
In recent years, the discourse on competences as well as the increasing importance of informal learning particularly at workplaces have attributed a prominent position to the procedures of visualization and balancing of vocational competences within the educational practice as well as in education policy debates.However, most of these procedures focus on apprentices or participants of further education courses. This rather limited view has largely excluded teachers and/or dispositive employees …
