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…
The results from the PISA study and the future of adult education The results of the PISA study have made it clear how urgent the individual as well as the society as a whole depends on a secure system for after school learning and a secure system for lifelong learning. In the contribution perspectives of the development of the qualification demand on behalf of the employment system are scetched with a view to globalization tendencies. In front of this background it is necessary to filter th…
The authors take the model of reproduction contexts, which has been developed by Josef Schrader in order to systematize the adult education sector, as a point of departure to discuss the possibilities of its empirical transfer. Based on the re-analysis of structural data of adult education institutions the problems of transfer of a theoretically developed model are explored. They conclude by outlining impulses for further discussions.
The "unreigned" subject Learning in adult education In adult education – but not only this profession - humanistic psychology, chaos theory, constructivism, modernisation theory are, among others, in many cases normatively charged. Thus they are no longer theories for explanation but instructions for the design of social reality, namely of further education. In contrast to this the author here is interested in the system of relations, in which the subjects are interwoven when they enter a …
This article presents didactic approaches to financial literacy using the example of the CurVe project (debt counselling as a starting point for basic education – curricular integration and transitions) which was launched at the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) in March 2013. The project analyses the connection between excessive debt and basic educational needs. Its focus is on participative didactics and its goals include the strengthening of basic education through the conceptualisa…
Traditionally, adult foreign language learning is an issue of foreign and second language acquisition research. This book advocates increased adult educational research in this particular field of practice, which is presented in a detailed overview of theories and concepts, research, statistics, teaching-learning approaches and recommendations. Case studies demonstrate how qualitative methods of programme analysis, video interaction research and biography analysis are used as approaches to adul…
8.725 antisemitische Vorfälle registrierte RIAS (Recherche- und Informationsstelle Antisemitismus) 2025 – nahezu unverändert zum Vorjahr, auf historischem Höchststand. Reuven Konnik liest Antisemitismus als Seismograph für den Zustand der Demokratie und sieht Potenzial darin, traditionellen jüdischen Diskurs als Übung für eine resiliente Gesellschaft auszulegen. Mit der Akademie für Jüdische Ethik und Demokratie in Rheinland-Pfalz stellt er eine neue Institution vor, die genau das umsetzt.
Im Interview mit weiter bilden spricht sich die Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung, Anja Karliczek, für die Vernetzung bestehender digitaler Bildungsplattformen aus – und erteilt damit der aus dem MILLAKonzept stammenden Idee eines »Netflix für Bildung« eine Absage. Auch andere Vorhaben aus dem Feld der Bildungspolitik werden zurzeit unterschiedlich bewertet (s. die Beiträge zur Nationalen Weiterbildungsstrategie aus Sicht der Arbeitnehmer- und Arbeitgeberseite). Und manche Folgen kürzl…
Das BMBF hat die Deutsche Unesco-Kommission mit der Durchführung der UN-Dekade zur Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung beauftragt. Deshalb hat DIE den parlamentarischen Staatssekretär im BMBF nach politischen Erwartungen und Unterstützungen für die BNE befragt.
